Landscape photography can be a solitary experience, but award-winning landscape photographer David Taylor believes creativity requires a certain amount of peaceful contemplation to flourish. What skills or requirements, therefore, does a successful landscape photographer need? An ability not to mind getting cold or wet is one that springs to immediately to mind, but a landscape photographer also has to understand how the weather and the seasons affect...

This is a showcase of the shortlisted and winning photographs from the third major Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

'Landscape Photography' is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. Small enough to fit your camera bag, it is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for composing and creating eye-catching landscape photography in all its forms. From adding movement to the land to freezing the motion of seascapes; from playing with...

David Bellamy shows the reader how to paint his favourite subject - wild landscapes. This text is both a practical and an inspiration guide to painting mountains, deserts and wilderness, and contains tips and techniques for artists of all levels.

Structured and practical in approach, David Bellamy's guide has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are 12 demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions.

For a great number of amateur artists, capturing landscapes with watercolours can seem like a daunting prospect. This title demonstrates how this need not be the case, defining the basics of the style, before explaining more technical skills that can help produce stunning pieces.

This guide is aimed at the practised beginner and shows how to achieve successful watercolour landscapes in just 30 minutes. It is packed with quick tips, checklists and easy-to-follow projects, exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.

David Bellamy loves to paint winter scenes, when the landscape is not overwhelmed with greens. Here he explains the challenges and joys of capturing winter subjects, from how to do quick sketches in freezing temperatures to how to add warmth and vibrancy to snow scenes.

This comprehensive guide to painting landscapes in watercolour features the expert tuition of six renowned watercolourists. It covers materials, colour, watercolour techniques such as wet into wet, spattering, dry brush, lifting out and using salt, composition, planning a painting, sketching, perspective, tone and painting trees, water, seas, skies and buildings, as well as mood and atmosphere.

Top authors reveal their secrets and show how to capture skies, water, flowers and more, to help make your landscapes convincing.