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

Very nice,
I think I've seen a similar scene like this from you before with 3 canoes in the foreground leading us into the image?
The concept works very well.
The canoes look dark and silvery, almost metallic. Often, in a landscape image, you’ll have warm colours in the foreground with progressively colder, bluer colours receding into the far distance, which all gives the viewer some depth clues. Here, in this image, it is reversed with the viewer standing in the “cold” shadows , looking over to the fairly close far bank, which is still in the sun and looking much warmer.
This “reversal” works just as well to provide those depth clues. You could even emphasize the effect if you were to select the mountain and its reflection and bump up the warmth with the white balance a bit more and add some fill light and contrast 😊

Fascinating story and very nice image. The colours look realistic, meaning that at least I think they could have looked like that 😉 The panorama format gives me feel for the vast expanse of the land here.
Would you get any rain from such clouds, or do they just tantalize you while blowing overhead ?

A very cool image. The slightly rippled reflection makes for a nice impressionist part of the picture, the boat has lots of space to move into and the big tree on the left looks interesting with all its roots. Then there is the story about the father in the boat taking his daughter and their dog for a ride along the river.
Its a "complicated" image with lots going on, but with the light as you caught it, there's some good separation, despite (or perhaps because) of the fact that it's B&W

As to the quote from Henry David Thoreau, that sort of fits to my photography as well😉… looking for the good scenes and enjoying life while outside in the natural world is a big part of the experience.

The colours are accurate and yes, the landscape is immense. Three images have been stitched here.
Not a chance of rain from those clouds. But floods are on the way. Huge rainfalls a thousand km to the north have resulted in massive floodwaters sweeping down. The closest town to here, Menindee, is shortly expecting to be isolated by floodwaters and possibly might have to be evacuated. Lake Eyre is now filling up (if you don't know Lake Eyre, have a look at it on a map -it's huge.
Re the indigenous people. In their terms, a burial 35000 years ago is about halfway through what is believed to be their occupancy of Australia. The evidence keeps pushing it back but it is now considered that an occupancy of 65000 years is probable.

Red and green are always good together. This is no exception :-)
When you view this image in full res you can see the details like the lake, the steps and the few leaves floating on the water., etc.
It has an "immerssive feeling". Would be good to take a walk in this garden.

Yes, that lake looks huge. I hope the flooding doesn't cause too many problems. I expect (without knowing the details) that those rainfalls are a consequence of global warming!
65000 years is an incredibly long period!... much longer than what I am accustomed to thinking about.

Thank you. We go there several times a year. BTW it is about 300 acres (about 121 hectares).

Flowerdale Forest

In the NW Highlands, not far from Gairloch. A December day and the sun sinks quickly behind the Torridon hills.

Beautiful scene, well framed and well photographed.

Yes, it is true! I have an ongoing collection of photos with canoes in the foreground, I look for them wherever I travel. So you'll surely see more of them here or maybe in the black and white photo thread. These were indeed metal canoes, looked as vintage as the rest of the place. I felt like I was in a time warp there, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll try your suggestion and see what comes of it, sounds interesting. Thanks!

I like the way you make "the light" a main feature in your shots!
In this one the land is fairly dark, but we still have just enough shadow details to see the texture of the land. Against that dark background we have the very bright "hole in the moody sky", where the sunlight is pouring though and creating sun rays in the haze. That light is also reflecting on the stream so it looks bright and silvery in the dark fields. I can follow the stream all the way back in to the distance and find the snow capped mountain :-)

Very nice. The smooth curve in the line of flowers from bottom right to something like the middle that then curves back to the right is quite outstanding. Diagonal lines beginning like this usually point to the opposite corner. It's a visual surprise that makes the shot special.