Let’s face it. No one actually enjoys being the third wheel on a date. You can be with your best friend, whom you love to pieces, and their fling-of-the-month, whom you tolerate, but you will never enjoy it as much as just being with your friend.
There are plenty of things that go into being successful in landscape photography. You might think of gear because of how technical it is or the connections to others in the profession whether art or influencers. However, I believe that the most important thing is persistence across everything you do. It is the pursuit of perfection (not necessarily always achieving it though) across various parts of landscape photography that makes you successful.
I would expect most already know that we are currently in the longest partial government shutdown ever in the USA. With the current political climate, there isn’t an end in sight yet either. This is unfortunate for many reasons, but I would like to focus in on what this means today and going forward with our public lands.