Like so many things, getting great photographs is about planning and being in the (cliched) right place at the right time. But landscape photographers don’t have any control over the weather conditions. The best we can do is to scout out potential locations, visualise the shots we want and the conditions we need, and hope we remember those great ideas when the weather Gods shine.
Shutter Scouts is a weather-forecast and notification service for landscape photographers. It acts like a smart notebook: you enter your ideas, the location and the desired weather conditions. Shutter Scouts will rank the ideas according to distance, and how well the weather and tidal conditions match. Need a beautiful moonlit shot of Kinsale, Ireland? You’ll need a full moon, clear skies, high tide and no wind. With Shutter Scouts, you have some chance of remembering this idea and catching this shot!
Shutter Scouts is currently in hibernation (technically, the app is up but I can’t justify the running/data costs without a good business model).