Google trends - Landscape photography

The annual doom and gloom forecasts and navel gazing articles are appearing online, predicting the death of stills photography and that the future of photography instead will be the cameraphone or stills grabbed from video, drones, gopro footage etc. So I wondered what Google Trends would show if I trended 'landscape photography' and assume that interest in a topic/subject would be be represented by google searches.

Globally there seems to be a consistent level of interest for landscape photography for a few years now

The United Kingdom also mirrors the global trend. I did wonder if the searches may have also included the words 'demise' or 'declining interest in'. So I searched on a couple of items of gear associated with landscape photography




The google trends for camera tripod, wide angle lens, landscape lens and photography backpack,all appear to correlate with the consistently level trend for landscape photography. What about other photography genres though? There are reported decline in some genres and rise in other genres and the google trends do appear to correlate with reports.











The reported decline in photography workshop attendances and rise in spats on facebook/twitter between competing photography workshop providers seems to be bornes out by a google trend too.

There does appear to be at least a superficial correlation between Google Trends and the reported rise and decline of interest in some photographic genres. The Google Trends for photography manufacturers and gear also appears to correlate with reported market trends and financial reports.