There are many different types of photography. You can take pictures of anything and there is someone out there somewhere who would like to see pictures that you take. So, photography is a great field to get into.

What is landscape photography?

Landscape photography is a great field of photography, especially if you love nature and if you love to travel. You can travel world taking pictures of beautiful scenes across many countries. Of course, this is landscape photography on a big scale. Not many people are lucky enough to start off traveling world.

But you can find beautiful landscapes right where you live. That’s great thing about nature, it’s everywhere, and landscapes are everywhere. And that same sunset behind mountain that you’ve seen everyday since you were a kid may look pretty amazing to someone who has never been to mountains. Seeing sun rise up out of oceanfront may be absolutely astonishing to someone who has never been to beach. It’s all relative.

What you may see every day is someone else’s treasure. If you can open your eyes to beauty and see it, then other people can see it in your photography. It can be simple and everyday or it can be vast and amazing. It’s all about great pictures you take. You may see a night city skyline, a series of lightening bolts or an interesting cloud; it’s how you take picture that makes it beautiful to someone else.

Copyright...five facts every scrapbooker needs to know! Copyright laws can be really confusing and complicated for scrapbooker and myths and falsehoods about what is okay and what is not only makes matters worse. I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one on TV, but I've been reading and studying copyright law (especially how it applies to scrapbookers) for many years now.

I became interested in copyright law when I started creating Paper Piecings to sell on eBay. I wanted to make sure that sets that I was making weren't breaking rules. I also wanted to know rules about my original designs and how others can and cannot use them.

Here are five basic things that EVERY scrapbooker should know about copyright:

#1--When you create an original scrapbook layout, card or other project (not from a sketch, scraplift or idea book) you AUTOMATICALLY own copyright. No, you don't have to add a copyright notice. No, you don't have to register your layout design with government. Tip: Adding a copyright notice or watermark image to your original designs is a good idea if you plan to share them online. It helps to remind everyone that your artwork is yours.

#2--In order for a work to be protected it must be original and created by designer or artist. The work can be similar to existing works but not an exact copy. Chances are if you see a project in an online gallery, in an idea book or hanging in store, that project has copyright protection. Tip: It is always better to assume that project is protected and ask for permission to use design than to assume it is just okay to use it.