Shooting landscapes was an early photographic love for both Craig and Charlotte!

When photographing your canine friends these days, there's a real storytelling value in incorporating elements of landscape photography into your work.

We've also found that clients often choose art for their walls that incorporates landscape elements in addition to displaying the beauty and character of their dog.

The Dogscapes challenge is one of the more, erm... challenging challenges of Embark (try saying that after a few gins!)

What we're asking for is simple, an image of a dog in a landscape, somewhere that gives the image a sense of place. In practice, it's actually quite a different discipline. One where you need to think more like a landscape photographer first and a dog photographer second. A genre mashup if you will.

We had so many beautiful images celebrating dogs at amazing places, congratulations to everyone who submitted, but especially to those who made our top 20 and top 10.

Congratulations to the photographers.

Charlotte & Craig 🐶 📸 ✨

We provide video feedback on all images submitted for the challenge, and from there, we select our Top 20 and Top 10. Without further ado, here are the Top 10 images for this challenge!

Erica Harvey  | Erica Lane Photography

A very definite sense of place here. Great lens choice for this big open sky and for having the dog nice and big in the frame. 

Kayleigh Coffman | Captures by Kayleigh

This has a great sense of place. The challenging light has been handled really well. There's really nice storytelling elements here and the 16:9 crop is perfect.

Lina Hoggren | Liljeros Design

Wow! Those ears! Love the way the dog appears to be looking over the expansive landscape. Great atmosphere and the sky has been dealt with really well.

Linda Van Oeffelen-Brosens | Jinterwas photography

The features you've chosen to include in this image make this Dogscape instantly recognisable. The pose, expression, wind-swept look and harmonious colours create an absolutely epic image.

Marquee Maylum | Marquee Photography & Design

The wide angle used here gives an incredible sense of the location and the fabulous composition and editing bring the viewer straight to the subject.

 Melissa Rodewald | Melissa Rodewald Photography

There's a wonderful sense of place here, and the man-made objects being reclaimed by nature, presided over by your majestic subject create a wonderfully strong Dogscape.

Nikki Jennifer | Nikki Jennifer Photography

What spectacular colour harmony in this image! The energy of the pose, the composition, and the water really help this come together and create an incredibly atmospheric scene.

Shelly Linehan | Paws for a moment photography

Such a beautiful time of day! The light on this dog is just gorgeous. This has been edited really beautifully and there is so much to enjoy here!

Sherry Glassman | Sherry Glassman

Super dramatic sky! This is a great representation of this unique landscape, the inclusion of the palm trees really makes this image! You can't go wrong with a cute head tilt!

Wendy Bennett

The alternating layers of warm and cool colours, along with the contrasting shapes and textures bring loads of interest to this scenic image.

Embark is the foundation 6-month interactive challenge-based online dog photography course in our Unleashed Challenges series, focusing on helping you to learn new shooting skills and create more variety in your work.

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