International Landscape Photographers' Association

Just a heads up that if you like this page then you'll probably like The ILPA Weekly newsletter. It's full of some of the best landscape and wildlife articles we've come across over the past week. http://internationallandscapephotographer s.theilpaweekly.co…

Here's our Vice President's personal newsletter. Thanks Rich Leighton!

ILPA Weekly Featuring Landscape Photography Composition, July 28, 2017 Edition, is Published! Read The ILPA Weekly now The headline in the ILPA Weekly this week discusses using natural landscape features as the dominant picture elements in your composition. This thoughtful article goes over the the key point to consider while building your composition. Furthermore, the headline is also a perfect segway towards the… [ 496 more words ]
http://www.brianmerry.ca/headline-landsca pe-composition-ru…/

I'd like to let you guys know about a day workshop I'm hosting titled "Alpine Wildflower Macro Photography" on August 12th. Hope you're interested: http://www.brianmerry.ca/macro-day-worksh op/

Here's a special offer for ILPA members. Non-ILPA members can go too.
I'd like to share the Banff Fall Colours day landscape photography tour with you. We'll spend the day photographing the beautiful landscapes in Banff National Park in this Banff Day tour. And, we'll take a short 5 km hike midday to photograph the beautiful Fall colours in amongst the larches at treeline too. This tour has it all! ILPA members will receive $50.00 (~20%) off of this tour. If you came to... the Summit last January then you're an ILPA member.
Please follow the link for details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/banff-nationa l-park-fall-colour…
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This week's edition of the ILPA Landscape and Wildlife Photography Weekly is published. Here's a link to the summary and the newsletter. Great stories this week including the 20 year story behind the lead photograph.

I'm going to be interviewed today by CBC radio on wildlife photography in the parks. Listen in on "Alberta at Noon" between 12-12:30pm
And, yes,... that is a wild black bear that those adults and children are crowding.

I'm going to be interviewed by Calgary CBC Radio about our, photographers, views on wildlife photography in the National Parks during their lunchtime show between 12:00pm-12:30pm.
The piece that they're doing was inspired by an incident where "photographers" with ipads and phones walked towards a bear and two cubs to within ~20m to photograph them. I was driving down the icefields parkway when this happened and I was in my car about 75-100m away as this unfolded.

A legend of Canadian Mountain Photography passed away peacefully yesterday at home at the age of 83. George was one of the living photographic legends of the Canadian Rockies.
Here's a beautiful tribute to George written by fellow friend and Nature photographer Robert Berdan: http://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com /tribute_George_Br…

The road up to Takakkaw Falls is now open for the Summer!

Just a heads up that if you like this page then you'll probably like the newsletter also produced by the International Landscape Photographers. Sign up to receive it each week and read the great landscape and wildlife photography articles that we found, and wrote for you each week. http://internationallandscapephotographer s.theilpaweekly.co…

The Road to this place should be opening up in a couple of weeks...

The ILPA Landscape and Wildlife Weekly newsletter Featuring Lake O'Hara and Risk Taking to Spur your Creativity is published!
The Headline: Kicking off this week in the headlines is an article about "Creativity Risk Taking in your Outdoor Photography to Spur your Creativity. [ 619 more words ]
http://www.brianmerry.ca/risk-taking-spur ring-creativity/

Do you feel that you're artistically stagnating as a photographer? I've felt I've been through a few creative growths spurts in my 20+ year career as a professional photographer. And, I've dealt with a few plateaus where I seemed to be doing the same old, same old.
But, so far, I've always broken through my barriers and learned a few lessons along the way about spurring on creativity when it seems elusive.
I summarize my thoughts on creative plateaus in this blog post and how I've managed them. I hope my experiences help you to break through your own plateaus too. http://www.brianmerry.ca/photographic-ris ks-stimulate-crea…/

This is an organization by outdoor photographers, for outdoor photographers. It's a beautiful thing!

It was my first professional landscape photography workshop I attended as a long-time full-time landscape photographer. My work has been published all over the world, and I was amazed at how much I didn't know... shocked really! Professional photography is changing as fast as the technology that is driving it these days. All of us have to stay on top of the game, and ILPA is on top of it! HIGHLY recommended!