Reply #59: Yes Ma'am, Horizon Lines:

[chknltl]

I used to read a lot of photo magazines. I had a subscription to one English photo mag which featured monthly viewer submissions. These were critiqued by the magazine's expert photographers. I loved to try guessing what the experts were going to say prior to reading their critiques. Tilted horizon lines always caught their attention. No matter how stunning a submitted photo might be those guys always came down hard on that point. I suppose this is why I notice that myself so easily now.

Back then film cameras predominated and the suggested remedy for tilted horizons was to use a tripod. That helped me too.
Another thing which helped me was having a routine. I have literally shot thousands of landscape shots and I use the same routine pretty much for each shot. That routine always ends with checking the horizon line level the instant before I click the shutter. When I am rushed I do not follow my routine so well and my horizon lines are generally the first to suffer...we share that gremlin you and I.

I hope I am not sounding like a know-it-all here. I just want to pass along something I had to learn about.
chknltl