What is special about landscape photography?

Think about factors such as depth of field, shutter speed, and lighing conditions compared to, say, portrait photography or action photography. For example -would you use a flash?

several kinds of photography --

portrait = person or people
landscape = outdoors scenes
wedding = a wedding and reception
journalism = scenes at newsworthy happenings
catalog = identify an object that you want to sell

What ebaines said about technique.

For landscape photorgaphy timing is the critical issue. You are on most occasions a slave to the weather and the timing on the sun as it passes overhead. The other types mentioned are normally a controlled environment of some kind. One that wasn't mentioned was astrophotography. For that its mainly about exposure levels to gain the results your looking for.