“Colors are the smiles of nature”
Nature photography is 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 put 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”.
As is the trend in much of nature photography, the focus of landscape photography is on the natural beauty of the world with little artificial lighting or staging. There are also forms of landscape photography that are seen as more artistic or abstract than others, though those seem to lean more towards a macro photography style.
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. “Nature” can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. Wildlife photography is all about capturing pictures of animals, especially those considered exotic, in their natural habitats, and so only became truly popular once cameras were portable. Depending on the purpose of the photograph and photographer, Wildlife photography can either portray the animals in action (such as eating, fighting, or in flight), or in more static and detailed poses for identification purposes. Much like in landscape photography, wildlife photography is also often used in magazines such as National Geographics to inform and inspire audiences. Photographs taken of captive or controlled animals are not considered wildlife photography as by definition from the Photographic Society of America, the Fédération Internationale de l’ArtPhotographique and the Royal Photographic Society. According to these three worlds largest photography societies the definition for wildlife photography, that will be applied to photography competitions, is photos taken of any zoological of biological organism (including fungi and algae), in a uninhibited (wild) environment.