Landscape photography (often shortened to landscape photos) captures the world's outdoor spaces, sometimes vast and unending and other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of the land. Landscape photography is created for a variety of reasons, one of the most common being capturing the experience of the outdoors.
Many landscape photographs show little to no human activity and are created in the pursuit of a pure, unsullied depiction of nature that is devoid of human influence. These types of landscape photographs often feature subjects such as landforms, bodies of water, weather events, and natural light. Other landscape photographs focus on human interventions in the landscape. The definition of a landscape photograph is therefore a broad concept that may include rural or urban settings, industrial areas, or nature photography.
