Chapter 01 — Landscapes
USA Landscapes
The collection
American landscape photography spans every climate on the continent — red-rock deserts, Pacific and Atlantic coastlines, old-growth forests and high alpine valleys. This chapter gathers the landscape photographs currently held in the us.photo collection. Three of them have a fully verified location and photographer; the remainder are shown with their location marked as unconfirmed rather than guessed.
Authentic Photography
Real light. Real places.
Genuine on-location photographs. Where an exact location could not be confirmed, the caption says so rather than guessing.
Alpine Lake Rest
Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado, USA · © Zach Betten
Source · Unsplash License
Desert Buttes
Monument Valley, Arizona–Utah border, USA · © Ganapathy Kumar
Source · Unsplash License
Golden Shore
North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, USA · © Sean Oulashin
Source · Unsplash License
Location unconfirmedAlpine Reflections
Exact location to be confirmed
Location unconfirmedForest Light
Exact location to be confirmed
Location unconfirmedHigh Valley
Exact location to be confirmed
Editorial
How this chapter is curated
Every photograph here is a genuine, on-location image. Where the exact place a photograph was taken can be confirmed from its source, the caption names it — along with the photographer. Where it cannot, we say so plainly instead of attaching a plausible-sounding place name.
The verified frames span the country: the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley on the Arizona–Utah border, the golden surf of Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii, and a hammock-slung afternoon above an alpine lake in Colorado's Mount Zirkel Wilderness.