Fine Art Landscape: The Art of Landscape Photography
with
Dennis Hammon
Do you ever head out on a photography adventure only to return home disappointed with your results?
Landscape photography is one of the most rewarding and popular genres yet creating truly compelling images requires more than simply visiting a beautiful location. It takes patience, intention, and the ability to see beyond what is obvious.
With the 12 Elements of a Merit Image as a foundation, Dennis will show you how to photograph with purpose, helping you move beyond simply recording a scene to interpreting it in a way that evokes emotion. You'll learn to visualize the final image before pressing the shutter and create photographs that express what you felt, not just what you saw.
Discover how light is far more than illumination. It is the emotional language of photography. You'll learn to recognize and use atmospheric conditions, light, shadows, weather, and time of day to establish mood and create stronger visual impact.
Through discussions of composition, lens selection, perspective, and visual design, Dennis will demonstrate how technical mastery serves artistic expression. You'll explore what to include, what to leave out, and how different focal lengths influence the story your image tells.
The journey doesn't stop with sweeping vistas. Learn to recognize the grand landscape, intimate details, and abstract patterns in nature that many photographers overlook. These often become the most memorable and competition-worthy images.
Landscape and wildlife photography frequently intersect, yet each presents unique challenges. While the landscape patiently waits, wildlife rarely cooperates. Dennis will share practical techniques for finding, anticipating, and photographing wildlife, from compelling animal portraits to creating artistic images where wildlife becomes an integral part of the landscape.
Whether your goal is creating beautiful wall art, building stronger competition images, or simply finding greater satisfaction in your photography, this presentation will inspire you to slow down, see differently, and create images with greater purpose and emotional impact.
What You'll Learn
- Photograph with intention by visualizing the image before pressing the shutter.
- Use light, weather, and atmospheric conditions to create emotion and mood.
- Strengthen your artistic vision through composition, lens choice, and perspective.
- Move beyond documenting a scene to interpreting it in a way that connects with viewers.
- Discover compelling subjects in grand vistas, intimate landscapes, abstract details, and wildlife.
BIO
Dennis Hammon
M.Photog. Cr. CPP, F-PPI, F-IPPA, F-ASP
Photographic Artist | Educator | Fellow of ASP
Dennis Hammon did not come to photography to collect titles.
He came to understand light.
What began as fascination slowly became devotion — long hours before sunrise, standing in silence, waiting not for spectacle but for something honest. Over time, the camera became less of a tool and more of a teacher. The land taught patience. Weather taught humility. Failure taught sincerity.
Dennis holds the degrees of Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman and is a Fellow of the American Society of Photographers (F-ASP). Yet those distinctions represent something deeper than achievement. They mark decades of disciplined growth, study, competition, critique, and service to the profession he loves.
His work explores the full emotional range of landscape photography — from grand and sublime vistas to quiet, intimate abstracts that ask the viewer to slow down. He believes a photograph should not overwhelm the viewer but invite them. Not perform — but resonate.
As a speaker and educator, Dennis shares not formulas, but awareness. He teaches visual literacy, artistic integrity, energy containment, and the courage to develop a personal voice. He challenges artists to move beyond imitation and into meaning — to create images that endure because they are sincere.
Those who study with Dennis quickly realize something:
He is not trying to impress you.
He is trying to help you see.
For Dennis Hammon, photography is a lifelong apprenticeship to light — and an offering of gratitude for the privilege of witnessing it.
In Person Meeting
- Free to PPSV Members
- $45 Guest Fee for Non-Members
Agenda:
- 6:00-6:30 pm: Networking (with a simple/light dinner provided)
- 6:30-7:00 pm: New Member Intros/Announcements/Business
- 7:00-9:00 pm: {GUEST SPEAKER - TOPIC}
