Social Media Ideas for America The Beautiful: The Monumental Landscapes Of Clyde Butcher

The Polasek Museum opens new exhibition of Clyde Butcher’s photography ‘America the Beautiful’

Mac Stone "Cypress" Exhibit On View at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary November Through March

Set beneath the living canopy of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary’s ancient cypress forest, this outdoor exhibit brings large-format photography into the landscape that inspired it. On vi...

226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online

Like many American stories, the story of the National Parks begins with pillage, death, deep cultural misunderstanding, and venture capitalism. According to Ken Burns’ film series...

Nature’s Canvas: 40 Landscape Photos So Beautiful They Look Like Paintings

Have you ever looked at a landscape photos and wondered if someone accidentally uploaded an oil painting instead? That’s the kind of magic you’re about to experience. Some places o...

Nature’s Canvas: 34 Winning Landscape Photos From the Academy Photo Awards 2026

Some landscapes don’t just look beautiful, they stop you in your tracks. The Academy Photo Awards 2026 Landscape winners do exactly that, turning mountains, waterfalls, deserts, fo...

32 Dramatic Landscapes by Max Terwindt That Capture Earth at Its Most Extreme

Some places don’t just make you stop and stare; they completely reset your perspective. Think about the first time you stood at the edge of a canyon, watched waves crash against a...

Turning Yosemite's Chaos Into Clean, Minimal Landscape Shots

Yosemite gives you waterfalls, granite walls, and postcard viewpoints that practically shoot themselves. The harder task is walking away with something nobody else made, and that s...

Blue Nights and Snowy Peaks: Cath Simard’s 25 Dreamlike Landscapes of the Canadian Rockies

There are landscapes that make you stop scrolling. Then there are landscapes that make you wonder if you’re looking at Earth at all. That’s what happens when you explore Cath Simar...

The National Park System’s Lesser-Known Role as Patron of the Arts

"These wild spaces with heartbreaking stories and uncontainable beauty can change us if we let them," artist Dawn Waters Baker, who has participated in residencies at Big Bend Nati...

The Artist Whose Paintings Helped Establish the World’s First National Park

Thomas Moran's watercolors helped convince Congress that the wondrous beauty of Yellowstone was worth protecting.

Zac Henderson Venerates Devil’s Tower in Bold Black-and-White Photos

Henderson also captures the changing light and the otherworldly textures and ochres of the iconic rock. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member tod...

Amazing High-Res Photo Shows a Butte Rising From Mars

Trundling around on an alien planet some 140 million miles from Earth is the solar system's most intrepid landscape photographer, snapping awe-inspiring shots as it scrambles up a...

Seeing the World in Photographs - Park Record

Seeing the World in Photographs - Park Record

Discover Beautiful Natural Spaces This Summer

The great outdoors is more popular than ever, leading to a wonderful surge of travelers heading out to explore scenic protected lands. Our spectacular protected natural spaces are...

Earth From Above: 37 Outstanding Winners of the 2026 International Aerial Awards

There’s something almost magical about seeing the world from thousands of feet in the air. From that height, the places we walk through every day suddenly become abstract works of...

Mastering Landscape Photography: Breathtaking Photos That Teach You to Shoot Like a Pro

A great landscape photograph has a way of making you stop scrolling. It could be a mountain shining in the first light, a solitary road vanishing into the desert, or waves breaking...

Craig Blacklock

A meaningful photographic life isn't measured by the volume of places we visit or the number of images we capture. It's measured by the moments we truly notice—whether or not we ev...

Scottish Photography Exhibition

Award-winning photographer Stephen Ball brings Scotland's wild beauty to life in a stunning new Edinburgh exhibition Few places can rival Scotland for dramatic scenery. From mist-s...

Portrait of a City review – master photographers capture the US cityscape in all its grime, grit and glory

Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonEra-defining photographs from the likes of Alfred Stieglitz, Saul Leiter and Dorothea Lange showcase the urban landscape, from midnight crime scenes...

How NASA Shot a Landscape on Mars: The Photography Behind Curiosity’s Miraflores Image

When Curiosity looked across Gale Crater and captured a portrait of "Miraflores," it wasn't simply documenting another rock on Mars. It was photographing a landscape shaped by eros...

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made

In 1941 the National Park Service hired Ansel Adams to make a photo mural of the n...

Damn, That’s Beautiful – Real Places That Look Magical

Promise of the New Day