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

Driving back to the hotel,…

We were returning in the car after a fairly long hike, much higher up in the mountains in Carinthia, and spotted this nice view from the roadside.
The hotel was just around the corner, so it was nice to get one more shot from here, at the end of day 😊

Not home yet, so not many pp tools, pretty much as it was when I shot it yesterday late afternoon in Kolob Canyon, UT.

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View

You found and captured some impressive red rocks there !
Together with the green trees, blue sky and the fluffy white clouds a nice colour palette.
Must be a wonderful place for hiking

That is a very colourful park, nicely laid out, I'm guessing it is somewhere in Asia, probably Japan?
The red pagoda looks great in the image, it gives a splash of colour and pulls your eye right in.

I love the canyons of Utah. I've been to most. Rode my horse all over Capital Reef and Bryce. Ridden most of the Grand Staircase-Escalante on horse back before many other people had heard of it. Hiked numerous slots, Orderville canyon which empties into the Zion narrows and the arduous 36 miles of Paria. This was back before they were "discovered" and had a hand full of hikers a year. If I am not wrong Kolob is in Zion NP. In that part of the world, the light is normally good - especially before 10 AM and after 5 PM this time of the year.

Nicely done with varying illumination bring out the textures in the rocks.

Sunrise

Driftwood beach, Jekyll Island, Ga

Rural Northern China

Very cool image, the sun looks almost as if it could be a planet as seen on some other world.
Lots of 3D feeling in this image. The bright sun and the bright lines of the thin clouds shine out since the rest has been kept fairly dark :-)
And good framing of the sun between the branches

Just imagine how long it takes to work a big field like that with a small tractor.
Keeping him small in the frame makes the field and the task look even more daunting !

Looks like the field is almost all ready to go. Just need some rain and wait for the harvest :-)
I once did a series of 4 shots , taken from exactly the same place of ploughing, planting, growing crops, and the harvest.
The farmer really liked the result printed big with the 4 images shown 2 x 2

Sometimes being lucky far surpasses being good. That was the case here. Multiple layers of thin clouds sprinkled in an otherwise clear morning. Just after the sun cleared the horizon - classic "golden hour." The golden hour doesn't do much for B&W photography except this case was an exception it illuminated the bottom of the clouds with a yellow to red light. In B&W terms I slapped on an orange filter to accentuate the unique lighting off the underside of the cloud layers. This was also high tide that left the driftwood in the lapping of the water as it came and went. I did get my feet wet on this shot. When I thought the sun was at the proper position and the wave rolling in ready to break over the driftwood, I pulled the trigger.

Sometimes luck is more important than skill.

I particularly like this shot. It tells a story, the story of a farming landscape that sprinkles the world. The rows of harvested crops that proving lines to lead the eye back to the house which one has to wonder does the farmer live there or is it abandoned? Then to the water and far hills and finally to the sky with wispy clouds.

Went hiking yesterday. Northern China. 800 meters of elevation climbed. In about 1.8kms I think. Damn steep. I can't do it justice.