What is Rural Landscape?

Rural landscape describes the diverse portion of the nation’s land area not densely populated or intensively developed, and not set aside for preservation in a natural state.

Rural means relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture.

Rural Landscape Photographers

Steve Huff is a photographer who focused one of his projects on rural landscapes in 2009 and 2010, he photographed abandoned houses, factories and rural landscape. In my opinion his photos are eye-catching the derelict buildings give the photographs an eerie feeling, the dark points and shadows on the image below attracts the attention of the audience due to the cold feeling and the different shades shown.

Other photographers

Fay Godwin, was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast born in Berlin in 1931, Fay grew up in various countries having a British diplomat father and an American artist mother (of Scottish ancestry). They were posted to various countries and this multi-cultural, upper class, artistic environment created a passion for the contemporary arts and literature that permeated her life.

Godwins way into photography was through family snaps in the mid-1960s. She had no formal training, but after the snaps came portraits, reportage, and finally, through my love of walking, landscape photography, all in black and white. A Fellowship with the National Museum of Photography in Bradford led her to urban landscape in colour, and very personal close-up work in colour has followed.

Fay Godwin was critical of her work, Godwin went on to reject the notion of beauty and landscape, even going so far as to stating that her photography did not fit anywhere in the ‘sublime’, romantic tradition.

In my opinion Godwins work fits into the idea of the sublime and romanticism due to the moody sky and the natural beauty of the location being photographed, she captures the light in the photo which adds an act of dimension to the photo.

The photo above is one of my favourite photos from her collections, what makes it so eye-catching for me is the perfect reflection projected on the water of the mountains and the flooded tree.