r/photography· regina_mona@regina_mona

The prairie finally taught me to stop centring the horizon

For years every landscape I took was split 50/50, sky and field, like a flag. Fine. Boring, but fine. Then one evening the clouds were doing something biblical and I just tilted up until the field was a thin strip at the bottom. Suddenly the photo was about the sky, which is what the prairie is actually about anyway. Now I decide what the picture is about first, and the horizon goes wherever that decision puts it. Low horizon for drama up top, high horizon when the land has the texture. Never the middle unless I mean it.