WHAT IS RURAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY?
Rural landscape photography refers to “photography in the countryside” and covers the rural environment. Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
Ansel Adams 
Ansel Adams 
Ansel Adams 
Edward Weston 
Edward Weston 
Edward Weston 
Fay Godwin 
Fay Godwin 
Fay Godwin
ROMANTICISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY:
According to the article titled “Romanticism and Its Relation to Landscape Photography & Painting”, romanticism was an art form that rejected classicalism and focused on nature, imagination and emotion. Romanticism focused and emphasised on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
WHAT ARE THE 5 ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM;
- Interest in the common man and childhood.
- Strong senses, emotions, and feelings.
- Awe of nature.
- Celebration of the individual.
- Importance of imagination.
THE SUBLIME:
The Sublime is a western aesthetic concept of ‘the exalted’ of ‘beauty that is grand and dangerous’. The Sublime refers to the wild, unbounded grandeur of nature, it relates to threat and agony, to spaces where calamities happen or things run beyond human control.
The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757.
The Great Day of His Wrath (1851–3)