Yesterday and today I’ve been attending an on-line landscape photography workshop through KelbyOne. Landscape photography is not my strong suit and I am always interested in learning new approaches that will improve my landscape images. One of yesterday’s lectures was on Intimate Scenics, by Richard Bernabe, an internationally renowned nature, wildlife, and travel photographer. He focused on what he called intimate scenics, using a long lens instead of a wide angle lens which is most commonly associated with landscape photography. After listening, I recalled a photograph I took last year in Maine as we walked to a place called Moxie Falls. My friend Emerson and I were trailing the rest of the group, stopping often because we kept finding all kinds of interesting and what I now know as “intimate scenics.” One of my favorites was a pair of mushrooms growing in a high hole in a dead tree trunk. I shot this image at 160mm to create this intimate scene.