The Weekly Landscape Thread

This weekly thread, starting on a Friday, allows us to showcase our Landscape photos and get some feedback.
Opening up discussions, not only on content, style, composition & techniques, but also on the emotion in the image, and of course about the place itself.

It’s easy to participate

Post an image or short essay with a title and description. To make it easier to view in the forum, all comments should include the original title and at least one of the original images as a quote.

Thread Guidelines:

1. This thread is for sharing and developing our Landscape photography skills.
2. Entries can be a single image or a short photo essay (2 to 10 connected images that tell a story).
3. Give your entry a clear title and perhaps also explain why you took it, or the story it tells.
4. Provide constructive feedback on others’ images/essays.
   Try to go beyond simple praise or dismissal and explain why you like it, or what caught your eye.
   ”Likes” are encouraged too.
5. Negative feedback and suggestions are also OK (be polite, honest, and constructive).

Giving feedback is just as important as receiving feedback, both help to improve our artistic and technical skills.

What is a Landscape photo?

This means different things for different people. For me, it includes a wide range of photos taken outside,… from wide sweeping vistas to smaller details found along the route. Seascapes, landscapes, cityscapes, woodland shots, landscapes at night with some stars, and lots more are all OK. They could also include man-made objects and people or animals outside, but they are not usually the main subject. Show us, with your photos, what Landscape photography means to you.

Motivation

I love to go hiking in the natural world and capture photos along the way. It keeps me fit (physically and mentally) and provides some beautiful memories. Processing those images when I return is fun too, it often helps to enhance what I saw.

Downloading and reposting

It’s often challenging to verbalise comments about images. Instead, it’s sometimes easier to “show.” Unless the original poster specifically states otherwise (in each original post), participants are free to download, alter, and repost images in replies to express their analysis and critique. The reposted image may remain permanently or be removed after a short period. Downloaded and altered images shall not be used for any other purposes or uploaded elsewhere.

Enough said,… Go out, enjoy the open air, take some photos. Bring back the memories and post them here in the Weekly Landscape Thread 😊
...looking forward to seeing your images

Almost in the river

Standing very close to edge, almost in the water, balancing on a big rock, trying to avoid getting myself or the camera wet.
It’s not so easy, holding the wide angle lens low down and very close to water; all the while aiming to get details of the rapids and also trying to get a view of the boulders along the river bed and the mountains in distance into the shot.
Had to wipe splashes off the lens a few times 😊

My favorite part of Yosemite National Park is Tioga Road, the high road between the Valley and the little village of Lee Vining. It's seldom crowded at all, and to me it's the most beautiful part of the park, like something out of Tolkien. This sunset was lovely and we had Tenaya Lake to ourselves, to wade in these shallows and take photos unimpeded by other visitors.

Headed Back

We headed out up the ridge line to the high country as the fog lay heavy in the valley. We had a bit of a delay as a herd of about 100 bison crossed the creek in front of us - at their own pace. We "kicked up" an elk bedding down in a grove of small aspen and my partner's horse was a bit alarmed as the elk scrambled free - but my partner held firm.

Then as the fog starts to rise from the Snake River, we stop on top for a rest and take time to beauty below. Saddle up again and head back. Upper left, the Grand Teton and the upper Right Mt. Moran. As Winston Churchill often said, "No time in life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."

Soes this qualify as Landscape? I'm not sure.

A TunnelTthrough the Alps.

Great to have a majestic view like that to yourselves!
...and great shot too, I can see why you think of Tolkien here.
The orange/pink glow in the sky with its reflection looks wonderful. The big mountain seems at first glance to be covered in snow, but, looking closer, I think it is just the natural colour of the rock, but maybe not?

Love the peachy colours in this, with a double helping in the reflections. At first glance I thought there was snow lying on the mountains, but no, just granite. 😄

I'm not sure either, but I don't think that matters - it's an intriguing image. The distortions in the reflection have me scratching my head! And the arrangement of red and complementary green are great.

I really enjoy reading your stories and adventures of enjoying the life and times in the saddle in the high country. It's a fitting shot for the story.
The dark, almost black, tones of the horse come over particulary well when viewd in a high res. Great scene!

Lin gardens

The little village of Lin sits on shore of Lake Ochrid in the Albanian sector. It has a couple of nice restaurants serving lake fish, and a pleasant walk on the cliff top. Looking down at the shore I spotted this little scene. Being a lifelong gardener I'm always interested to see what crops are being grown in peoples veg plots, and how they are organised.

Well I don't know about any strict definitions of what a Landscape photo is, or isn't, and so it's up to you to decide to post it here or not ;-)
I can imagine that the image would fit perfectly well in a landscape book, or photo essay, with beautiful shots of the typical Swiss "landscape", with this shot in between such a series.
The bright red and green grass and trees go together so well! and the photo gets you thinking about what you can actually see here. Seems like the train is crosssing to the other track on a railroad switch just before the tunnel. That gave you the perfect chance to get the reflection on the glass windows. well spotted!

Great !
That's a delightful scene of the little lakeside garden. Lots of details to explore here.
The two people tending to it add to the interest of the image and the boat speaks of rowing out into the lake to maybe get today's catch for the restaurants!

Up from Mono Lake in the heart of the high desert valley up to Tuolumne Meadows ( one of the more beautiful and peaceful location in the world ) across the spine of the Sierra range, down and down into Moccasin is the closet thing to heaven one can find. You capture the allure and beauty of this area above.

That's marvellous. It gets its power from the in your face confrontation with the exploding water through the gap. It's all the more effective because the photographer used a shitter speed than catches the water as pellets rather than fashionably smoothing everything out.
Then there's the line of boulders converging back to the cleft in the hills and from that cleft in the sky we have another expanding, matching reflection from the clouds. I also like the jagged points of both the peaks and the trees. The whole photo is full of lines conveying raw power and movement.
Check the exif for the camera's settings The photographer knew what he was about..

If I was teaching again I'd want to use this shot from minniev and the previous photo from Fireplace and put them side by side. Both are of water in mountain scenery with pine trees and at 200 iso
Fireplace uses vertical format and jagged lines. Minniev uses landscape format with many horizontal lines that stretch across the frame.. Both are using loads of DoF although they get there via different paths.
The two images stir quite different responses in the viewer. It isn't because the scenes are different. The photographers are making decisions that shape the responses as much as the scene itself.

Thanks Mike
Maybe a comment about the settings used.
In Minniev's image, ISO 200 is used which is the base ISO of the camera, and is the ideal setting to minimise noise & maximise DR. There are no fast moving objects and so a fairly long exposure can be used. The good IBIS on Olympus cameras can cope with that slowish SS very well hand held.

On my camera the base ISO is 64, and I raised it to 200 to allow a faster shutter speed to freeze the drops at the chosen aperture. At F/10, with a 15mm wide angle lens (FF), I get practically everything in focus including the water drops, which were really quite close to me, maybe 50-80cm away.

As you said different settings for different situations :-)