Animals, Plants, & Nature Week
Introduction
Well, let me just start with a shocking revelation: Photography of nature didn't begin with digital cameras. In fact, landscapes and floral photography in particular have been around since not long after the medium began. This is the oldest landscape daguerreotype I can find on the internet, taken in North Carolina in the 1840s:
With 170-odd years to think about that scratchy low contrast daguerreotype, it should be no surprise that photographers from the early era through today have played with a wide variety of methods to capture the perfect shot. In this article I'll be focusing on the meth