+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #12, 2025.04.25

Thanks, I am always grateful for dappled light in the early morning. It looked like a big quilt laid out over the valley.

Some of those formations in the west are such alien landscapes. You captured the other worldly feeling here.

Without the flag this would not be nearly so interesting. Those of us who are unfamiliar with the area would be unable to guess what we were seeing, and the lack of detail would cause us to move on quickly after briefly enjoying the colors. The flag stops us, forces us to place the location, study the distant details more. It is like punctuation in a sentence, it guides our thinking and thus our eye.

Thank you especially for sharing your daughter's expected response, it's wonderful.

Unusual, yes, but it seems the landscape has grown around it which is part of the story. The dry and somewhat barren land set in front of distant mountains fills out the story of the abandonment of the vehicle. A landscape that tells a story becomes more powerful than one that doesn't suggest a story.

Thank you minniev. This is not urban landscape per se. In Japan every shrine, temple or castle has a park around it with obligatory big pond or lake. This is in one of those.

That's a beautiful scene!
Well composed image, showing spring time in all its glory.

I have spent a lot of time out in dry regions of Australia, and this photo reminds of what it is like out there, in little towns that struggle to survive, maybe after rail services were discontinued and lines removed.

I think I'd have stepped back a bit and had more town and a bit less vehicle in the balance, but still, I like it.