Selecting the Same location

To Truly understand the nuances of the weather, try photographing the same location from precisely the same spot. Two photographs taken at a single location will never be the same, due to the vagaries of the weather. No landscape photograph, no matter how hard you try, can ever be repeated.

Select a location that is convenient; the essence of this exercise is spontaneity. The sky tends to be the mirror of the prevailing weather, so compose your picture to include plenty of it. Keep the foreground relatively simple, otherwise it could deflect attention from that element you particularly want to highlight – namely, the weather.

Set the images side by side and identify the subtle differences the changing weather brings. When editing, also consider the time of day when the photograph was taken. understand that you don’t necessarily need to capture a defined weather pattern for a photograph to be interesting.

Saltburn Beach. These four images were taken over several days. It was important that I captured the receding tide at the same point within the cycle. While all four shots reveal broken cloud and the same compositional structure, the character of each...