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,

A hike in the countryside, St. Georgen, Austria

In 2021 we hiked through the countryside to a small river, It was quite pleasant, and not far away, but haven’t been back since,
I think it’s time for another visit 😉

The roads and paths leading to the river

A shady place with dappled light down by the stream
This was the image I was hoping for on that trip :-)

A few details along the way

On the way back, a lady tends to the flowers in her small garden chapel

Evening in Lofoten

These are my favorites, first has nice leading road, second has certain mystery.

Those layers of pastel pink clouds are lovely. The Lofoten islands are great and full of photographic opportunities.

The Cloud

On the ascent of Stac Pollaidh in NW Scotland, we were overtaken by a sudden squall, which cleared to leave interesting light effects grazing the neighbouring hills.

I love the colours in this! I have many shots of this type in my catalogue, but most don't have the range of colour that this has (I blame the peat laden waters of Scotland 😉)

Gorgeous. The layers in the sky make more layers of mountains in the imagination.

One of the oddest landscapes I've ever tried to photograph - the Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, CA. This is low tide, when you can walk on the sea floor. There's as much as 50 feet of difference in high and low tide. The water color ranges from pink to deep magenta.

What an interesting landscape, nicely composed. Another place I'd love to visit. The mushroom rocks look like some I've seen in the Ionian sea (where there is almost no tide) which are explained as historic sea levels changed by earthquakes. I guess these are from tidal variation.
We used to live overlooking the Severn estuary which has the second highest tidal range in the world (after Bay of Fundy).The changing landscape on an hour to hour scale was wonderful - as were the tidal bores that used to sweep up the river at spring tides.