Landscape Photography

A large raptor perches on a fence post in a field, with snow-covered mountains and a blue sky in the background—captured as part of my personal work. Photograph by Dug Wilders.
Snow-capped jagged mountains reflect in a clear lake with rocks visible beneath the water and scattered across the shoreline under a partly cloudy sky.
A wide field with green grass at sunrise, a small body of water, and a house in the distance under a clear blue sky.
Sunrise over a mountain lake, with mist and tall evergreen trees in the foreground and distant snow-capped peaks.
A solitary tree stands in a frosty, open field under a pale, overcast sky.
Aerial view of Leeds at sunset, with illuminated buildings, a central square, and a dramatic sky with clouds and fading sunlight
Aerial view of a small village with houses, buildings, trees, and a river surrounded by fields and farmland. Looking over Bamford and the river Derwent
View of a colourful sunset over the ocean, seen through the natural opening of a rock cave, with smooth stone framing the scene.
Aerial view of a rural landscape with green fields, scattered trees, a small village, and cloudy skies.
Snow-capped jagged mountains rise behind a flat plain with scattered buildings under a clear blue sky.
Four birds fly over turbulent blue and white ocean waves, viewed from above.
Aerial view of a small town with clustered buildings, roads, trees, and surrounding green fields under a clear blue sky.

Landscape and Location Photography | Dug Wilders

Landscape photography was one of the things that originally made me want to spend more time behind a camera, and it still finds its way into a surprising amount of my commercial work.

My architectural commissions regularly take me into exceptional landscapes: houses overlooking the Peak District, lodges beside Scottish lochs, coastal properties and rural developments surrounded by countryside. In those situations the landscape isn’t background decoration; it is part of the reason the building exists where it does.

I take on selected landscape and location commissions both independently and alongside architectural shoots. These can include imagery for tourism, accommodation, property marketing, development projects and businesses that need to establish a strong sense of place.

The approach is fairly simple: good landscape photographs usually come from being in the right position when the light is doing something worthwhile. That can involve early starts, late finishes and quite a lot of waiting around looking at clouds.

I’m far more interested in atmosphere and believable light than heavily processed, hyper-saturated landscapes. The aim is to produce something striking without turning the location into somewhere that didn’t really exist.

Being based in Sheffield puts the Peak District on my doorstep, but my work takes me throughout the UK and abroad. Where a commercial or architectural commission has a particularly strong setting, landscape photography can easily be incorporated into the wider brief.