There are many great landscape photographers of the 19th Century, but if the names T.H. O'Sullivan, Roger Fenton, William Henry Jackson, Francis Frith and Felice Beato are foreign to you, you owe yourself a look at their work, preferably in a well-printed hard copy history of photography or a museum with a large photography collection. In fact, we'll probably hear from someone who questions putting Beato in the list above or who chides us for leaving out the brothers Bisson, Louis Auguste and Auguste Rosalie, who hauled their equipment on a mid-century trip to the Swiss Alps along with Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. In the 20th Century there have been a great many landscape photographers, but the work of Ansel Adams is without doubt the best known. Ansel Adams Sometimes, some people take such hard views of landscape photography that they're either ridiculous or downright pig-headed. Others ban any hint of the hand of humankind from the scene.
Cityscapes are verboten .
We say, we know a good landscape when we see one. In fact, we prefer to have our imagination extended by interesting interpretations rather than see the same old thing over and over. For example, there are some canyons and arches that get photographed repeatedly by hordes of photographers from the exact same angle and with the exact same lighting. We even enjoy urban landscapes and cityscapes-it's all part of the world in which we live. As we've noted, you can use any camera.