For a long time, I disliked landscape photography. And yet, I had studied and admired 19th century practitioners such as Carlton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge and Timothy O”Sullivan. Eventually, I turned to the natural world in my own work. This has led me to discover and become inspired by several women whose use of color, light and form to describe the land expand our notions of the photographic canon. Two such artists published books recently: “Transformation of a Landscape” by Victoria Sambunaris and “Aftershocks” by JoAnn Verburg.