Landscape photography can be quite a different beast when winter turns to summer. This helpful video will show you how you can stay motivated when the mornings are early and the sun goes high into the sky.
Coming to you from Nigel Danson, this great video explores how landscape photography changes in the summer and what you as a photographer can do to adjust. Personally, I am a nocturnal creature forever plagued by living in a diurnal world. Alas. The thought of shooting early summer sunrises generally makes me wince, but of course, there's always sunset. The middle of the day is the harder part, as we all know midday sun is particularly unforgiving, but it also tends to dominate the summer landscape, especially as on average, there's less cloud cover to diffuse it (at least around here). As Danson mentions, one way to overcome this is to put away the wide angle lens and reach for a telephoto. While the harsher light may not make for a great shot of the entire scene, you can use a longer lens to pick out individual elements of the landscape and create more abstract compositions that embrace the light and shadow. Check out the video above for more great tips.
I'll need to come back to this in about 6 months, because I live in the half of the world where everything is upside down!