If your’e photo’s aren’t good enough your’e not closer enough. A famous quote from Robert Capa. But what does it really mean. An is it relevant to Landscape Photographers.

As we strive to gain more likes and 5-star reviews, we follow the ever-rising bar of excellence, a Darwinian natural selection of photography is taking place, the outliers of creativity fall into extinction, and we travel along an evolutionary path fuelled by the polarisation of social media to the eventual state when there can be only one style of photography left. What happened to self-expression and art? Will we reduce our work to its lowest but very excellent common denominator? It's time to act before it's too late.

The difference between AI and you is you. At the moment AI has no grasp of hot or cold the effort of hiking uphill for an hour in the dark at 4am. It does not feel, senses no loss if all the trees are cut down, and feels no pain if the oceans dry up. But you do