Chris Perea is an acclaimed Arizona-based pro known for stunning images of the American Southwest. In the tutorial below he reveals an important secret to his success, which he says is “the one crucial concept every landscape photography should know.”

Are you a lazy landscape photographer or does it just feel like that sometimes? Landscape pro Mark Denney argues that it’s probably not laziness but a typical trap that some photographers fall into that could be slowing you down and making you miss the best shots.