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,

Changing seasons

The changing seasons dramatically transform the landscape—summer unfolds with warmth, painting the landscape in vibrant greens and yellows, dotted with blooming meadow flowers. While, winter cloaks everything in a pristine blanket of white snow, revealing a serene and very different kind of beauty.

Here are two shots in both summer and winter, from the of the same place in the Hochkönig region, Austria

Glimpse of light

Tromsø, Norway

In the one time I visited Tromsø I remember seeing good light over the water too :-)
This shot is good with those two dark bands at top and bottom, and the bright light in the middle, with the snow topped mountains appearing out of the mist

Interesting comparisons. In second set the colour of rock seems to be darker with snow than in summer shots. Part of it could be about different light but it could be also optical illusion.

Thanks.
I think the difference in the brightness of the main rock formation in that second group has a few reasons:
As they say everything is relative when it comes to brightness :-)

The conditions were quite different. The snowy scene was taken on a bright sunny day, where the large shadow areas at the “back” of the rock are a naturally a lot darker than the rock surfaces that are directly in the sunshine. You can see the direction of light by looking at the crisp shadow of the little tree on the snow in the foreground. Also the little patches of vegetation on the rock in winter are much darker than the bigger brighter greenery of the summer vegetation.

In the summer shot the conditions were quite overcast and the light was much flatter with less contrast. The light is falling, in almost the same intensity, from all directions, all over that formation and filling out the shadows, a bit like HDR would do. It was my processing decision to make the shadows, and especially the greens in the background, a bit darker to make the formation stand out as brighter area against the now darker background.

In the snowy shot it is the opposite way around; the darker formation stands out better against that much brighter snowy background.
The greater contrast you get in the snowy scene from the real sunny conditions, with directional light, give the rock formation more of a 3D feel to it!
It’s possible to add in similar shadow areas in pp into the summer scene to simulate sunlight coming from the same direction as in the winter scene. The result looks quite interesting 😊

Rose Garden