I've looked far and wide, tested many styles of prompts, found the ones that work great, combined them, then tweaked them here and there to fine tune the results. What I have as a result is some of the best landscape photography generations I've encountered. As you'll see, they have a lot of elements in common, but each are a little different. Feel free to add/remove/trade out any aspects of these prompts to see what you can get.

The Prompt

RAW photo, an award-winning National Geographic style HD photograph featuring the untamed beauty of the {Rocky Mountains, wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, Alaskan wilderness, Appalachain Mountains} after a rain shower at dusk, in the style of [choose your own sky colors] hues of twilight, long dramatic shadows, soft diffused light gives landscape an ethereal feel, shot with Sony Alpha 1 50mm f/1.8 lens f/11 1/200s ISO 100, stunning image, rendered in insanely high resolution, realistic, 8k, HD, HDR, XDR, focus + sharpen + wide-angle 8K resolution + HDR10 Ken Burns effect + Adobe Lightroom + rule-of-thirds + ultra detailed textures, depth-of-field, lens flare --ar 2:1

These first generations are of mountainous wilderness regions of the United States, Starting at the top left and going clockwise, they are: the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, the Alaskan wilderness, and the Appalachain Mountains.

These generations are of various arid regions of our planet. Clockwise from top left they are:
The Sonoran Desert of California, The Gobi Desert of Mongolia, an African Savannah, and the Patagonian Steppe of South America

The Prompt

RAW photo, an award-winning National Geographic style HD photograph featuring the striking beauty of the Patagonian Steppe, arid conditions, in the style of deep sun-baked hue, long shadows create stark contrasts, a feeling of wild animals roaming free, ultra high definition, shot with Sony Alpha 1, 50mm f/1.8 lens, f/11, 1/200s, ISO 100, realistic, 8k, HD, HDR, XDR, focus + sharpen + wide-angle 8K resolution + HDR10 Ken Burns effect + Adobe Lightroom + rule-of-thirds --ar 2:1

For these images, I switched up the prompt to generate an image based on a still frame from a fictional big budget movie filmed on location. I chose four locals, each considered highly photogenic (Angel Falls, Tepui table-top sky island mountains of Venezuela, Plitvice Lakes in Croatia, and Palawan in the Philippines) and I prompted it with one of the best cameras used in Hollywood today, the $100,000 ARRI ALEXA LF (large format) camera which was used to shoot The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Joker, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I also took advantage of the new parametric prompting feature of Midjourney. As you'll see in the prompt below, all you need to do is use squiggly brackets to enclose several terms separated by a comma and a space. The result will be several prompts, each one identical, and each one using one of the terms in the squiggly brackets. To clarify, I enclosed four terms and four separate prompts were generated, creating 16 images. It will of course use fast hours quicker, but if you know you'll be generating multiple prompts anyway, it just saves time. The terms are not limited to the subject of the generated picture. You could prompt it with {in the middle of Winter, during the dog days of Summer, at the beginning of Spring, at harvest time in Autumn} to see what your image will look like at different times of year. You are limited only by your imagination.

The Prompt

a cinematic still from the newly released Academy Award for Cinematography Winning big budget Hollywood Blockbuster movie "Stunning Paradise" filmed on location at {Tepui table-top mountains sky islands Guiana Highlands Venuzuela, Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia, Angel Falls Canaima National Park Venezuela, Palawan Philippines}, filmed with ARRI ALEXA LF camera, shot on a clear day at noon, long angle shot, low angle, a feeling of lost in paradise, dramatic stunning view, breathtaking landscape, Eden, ultra-high resolution imagery, 32K, UHD, ultra HDR, depth of field, Indescribable vista, extremely detailed image, amazing clarity, 3D, in the style of vivid green trees and deep natural blue water, composition of a beautiful paradise land, a sense of a land time forgot, unspeakable beauty --no people --ar 2:1

Midjourney Prompts: Your Passport to Stunning Landscape Photography

More than providing you with exact prompts to copy and paste, I hope this has shown you how to craft your own prompts with descriptive terms, and how AI can better show you what you want to see if you can better tell it what you want to see. Whether the model is a text-to-text language model or a text-to-image generative AI like Midjourney, a general rule of thumb is that the more descriptive the input, the more accurate the output. Good luck with your own creations and I would love to see some of them. Get In Touch if you'd like to share, or if you have any questions about Midjourney and how to prompt. Don't forget to check out the Generative Art gallery for even more images with prompts to expand your inspiration!