This research attempts to reveal the factors which make an analysis of
landscape photographs meaningful. In order to this research, an experiment was
planned and carried out. For the experiment, participants consisted of geographers
and undergraduate students who were asked to solve a few tasks which were created
using landscape photographs. The think-aloud method was used to make the thinking
processes of the participants visible. Using this data, their thinking processes
were compared. ln the think-aloud method, participants were instructed to keep
talking about what they were thinking while they were performing the tasks. Two
factors below were revealed from the results of the experiment. Firstly, the more
perspectives participants used to analyze landscape photographs, the deeper was
the level of information processing that resulted. Secondly, in order to have an
meaningful analysis of landscape photographs, it is important to choose between
divergent thinking or convergent thinking depending on the task.