A National Geographic photographer taught me one easy tip for taking better nature photos with my phone

Joey Hadden, a Business Insider reporter, recently discovered a useful tip for taking better nature photos with their phone from National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan. Hadden used to focus on the background when taking photos of natural landscapes, but Yüyan emphasized that what's in front of the landscape matters as much as what's behind it.

Yüyan, who creates visual stories about how different cultures relate to the environment, shared four useful tips for phone photography, with one tip making Hadden rethink photographing nature in a new way. The key, Yüyan suggested, is to find a foreground subject to add depth and intimacy to phone photos of natural landscapes.