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

My “May” Calendar photo

Every year I make an A3 size calendar, with 12 selected photos.
I get several copies printed professionally on glossy photo paper, and give most of them to friends and family.

This is the "May photo" 😀
Locally, there’s a 800m long ally with a double row of Horse Chestnut trees, it’s the longest such ally in Upper Austria!
Originally, it was planted in 1893 in the town of Neydharting, and now enjoys “protected natural monument” status.
Here, with their fresh new spring leaves it’s looking good, especially when lined with all those Dandy Lions, … You can just imagine how it looks when all the trees are flowering 😉

Katahdin Woods National Monument in Maine

A beautiful but little known national monument that's connected to a state park, very rugged (few paved roads). At this little campground, which you have to hike into, there was a lovely log-cabin library built and furnished before 1920. Most of the books in it were put there when it opened.

35000 years before the pyramids.
The sand dunes at Lake Mungo, NSW.
In these dunes the remains of the oldest ritualized human burials have been found. The skeletons have evidence of ritual ceremony. Some of the pigments used can be tracked to The Ochre pits 1500km away. This is evidence of a functioning trade route.
Archeological work is ongoing in co-operation with the present indigenous community.

What is Fishing Really About

“Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” —Henry David Thoreau

Red and Green