An average day with average light can become an interesting landscape if you stick a person in there. (Of course, Lake McDonald is rarely average, but you get the drift.) People lend a sense of scale to landscapes. Some purists don't like people in their landscape photos and that's OK. All I know is in the Hungry Horse news archives we have tons of landscapes and the most interesting ones have humans in them. The mountains in Glacier just don't change much. The Garden Wall today looks like the Garden Wall in '48. But the Garden Wall with a woman in a dress and a man in a suit from the '50s ... well, that's interesting.

So grab your kids or your wife or gramma or grandpa and even a perfect stranger and stick them in your frame once in awhile.