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nature photography

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Also known as photography of nature

photography genre

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Nature photography
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Category:Nature photography
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Naturfotografie
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Natural sources are popular places for nature photography. Lahemaa National Park in Estonia. Nature photography encompasses a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures. Nature photography tends to place a stronger emphasis on the aesthetic value of the photo than other photography genres, such as photojournalism and documentary photography.

"Nature photography" overlaps the fields of—and is sometimes considered an overarching category including—"wildlife photography", "landscape photography", and "garden photography".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nature photography” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.