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

Far below, two lucky people,…

Far below us, on the Island of Capri, two people arrived in a little yellow boat, dropped the anchor and jumped in for a swim.
From above we had an almost impressionist view of the sea bed shimmering through that crystal clear blue water. Then a seagull flew by too,.. CLICK!

I guess this still counts as a landscape image 😊

Do You Hear a Banjo

In a recent four day trip to the North GA mountains, we happed on this iconic spot. It was quite peaceful and serene. The title refers to the fact that
much of the 1972 movie "Deliverance" was filmed nearby.

Driftwood Beach
Jekyll Island, Georgia

These ever changing dead trees that have washed up on the beach are an endless source of compositions. My non photographer husband failed to share my interest but I bet some of you would have fun with them too.

The Gate.

I've never seen the film Deliverance before, so the banjo comment went over my head.
The film seems interesting, seems to be about the revenge of nature for the rape of the countryside, maybe I'll watch it sometime :-)

But the image on its own is interesting,...a lovely piece of nature along the river.
With the slow shutter speed you've got the silky water effect here, and also the leaves at the top that are framing the image are moving in the wind, so they become blurry as well, which was a bit confusing at first glance, but it's a good way to bring the wind into the scene.

Yes, I'd probably enjoy walking along that beach with my camera.
But, as you said, better on your own with a bit more time to go hunting :-)

Interesting photo. The branches at the top look like they're clutching out at something? Somehow looks a bit sad, like a stranded whale.

Interesting shot. I guess the windmill is a bit further away from the house so that you can't hear it squeeking ?
I wonder what the cylindrical shaped huts are used for ?
You could have gone for a panorama format of the scene without the gate, starting just above the left hand fence. but you chose to have the half open gate in there as well. Maybe that is to show the border where the property starts ? and perhaps invite you in,... since it is half open ?
Lots of questions :-) ,....

Interesting shot with interesting juxtaposition of objects from the gates, to the windmill and holding tanks leading back to the homestead. Looks like a freshly mowed late summer pasture. This is set off by an interesting sky.

Great catch - the soaring bird to give even more sense of distance. The last time I have seen water that clear I had my scuba gear on sitting on the side of a boat near the little Caribbean island of Saba worrying that I was going to bang my head when I rolled off into the water. The dive master said seeing my apprehension that the water is 45 feet deep here. It looked like the bottom with only a few feet away the water was so clear.

View from the above

Temperate rainforest

There are patches of rare temperate rainforest scattered along the western side of the British Isles, in this case Galloway, SW Scotland. It's characterised by mainly oak woodland and lots of moss - and it rains a lot!

That water looks so inviting. I wonder if cropping to square and losing the cliffs on the left would work?

Driftwood makes for some interesting subject matter - yes, I could spend hours in a place like this 😀
There's a nice colour pallette here, with the marbled greys of the sky and the warmer sand colours. The tree does seem to be reaching out to something, maybe a plea for help, or an urge to return to the waves.

This is a really interesting image. The wind pump and (I presume) water tanks, the tracks leading up to the distant farm with it's sheltering trees, the streaky sky... all has a slightly surreal feel to it. Then the gates, inviting the viewer to pause and look, but prohibiting them from entering the scene. Great stuff.

Thanks Woodsider :-)
Yes, the crop would work, it would make a different image.
With the cliff you get the feeling that I was probably standing on a part of that cliff and looking down. You get to feel how high the cliff is.
With the crop it would have the feel of a drone photo, flying high over the boat. The image would be a bit simplified which is not a bad thing.
Which version works best is, I guess, a matter of taste

What an amazing number of balloons in the air at the same time! So many colours and patterns.
You certainly get the feeling that you are up there among them too, watching the spectacle of all the other balloons and the landscape too.
Riding in a balloon is a fantastic experience; you travel with the wind so it is practically silent, until the gas burners start up for a while, then silent again.
Nice and warm in the basket too.
Where was this event?

Nice image!!
That is definitely very mossy, I've never thought of such mossy regions as being part of a rain forest, but I guess you're right.
And there's no secret that it rains a lot in scotland :-)

I thought I recognized that tree.🙀 Driftwood beach is a wonderland for photographers. I think I'll dig back into my archives and find some from my trip. I particularly live driftwood beach at sunup. Nicely done.

Without seeing the film you pretty much hit the nail on the head. It was released in 1972, when the US was seething with social upheaval and protest, the awaking of how we are destroying the environment, how a government was willing to sacrifice its own youth through conscription to support an ill defined war half way around the world, and the inability of society to solve it's racist past although slavery had been eliminated for over 100 years. It is a pretty dark rendering of what lies in man's future. Here is a good description.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wIrQvyguFY

The movie starts out up in the mountains with the infamous banjo scene ( the song that went by the name "dueling banjos" ) as a pretext of things to come. Dueling Banjos was a classic Bluegrass song with the arrangement for this move by Eric Weissberg the song went on to become a top 10 hit in the US.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFutge4xn3w