Psych 101

To help you make landscape photos that resonate, we deconstruct the psychological baggage humans bring to a scene

Text & Photography By Glenn Randall | April 14, 2015 | 0

One of the insights of modern psychology is how much our preferences and decisions are driven by unconscious processes.

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Glenn Randall is a wilderness landscape photographer whose primary subject is Colorado. He has been photographing every corner of the state since 1993 and recently completed a seven-year project to shoot sunrise from the summit of all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks. Farcountry Press published those images in Sunrise from the Summit: First Light on Colorado’s Fourteeners. His most recent book, The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, was published by Rocky Nook.

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