The Weekly Landscape Thread

...starting the weekly thread again 5his week few hours earlier since I'm off taking some photos tomorrow :-)

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,

Starting the thread this week from my mobile phone.
Manged to find a landscape photo saved here on this device. It's from March this year from a fairly easy hike to Wolfsegg, with my wife in silhouette looking out from the edge of the forest

Nice clear image. Tree is very destructive. I would remove it and lift shadow on the person a bit.

Living on my own

A few years ago my friend and I were in British Columbia on the island village of Alert Bay. We had taken a Bear Tour without finding bears, a Whale Tour without finding whales, and were out of money but still wanting to explore so we went to the dock and found an old man with a raggedy boat and no teeth, and persuaded him to take us out for $100. He had no maritime communication, no radar and when the fog bank in this picture descended on us we were lost inside it, entirely dependent on his rustic navigation skills. He knew the shapes of the islands and their shores, so he hugged the edges, weaving around till we got clear of it. The boat in this shot was a welcome sight!

Beautiful shot. I like the simple contrast of tonalities.
On my one and only transatlantic trip, I visited Alert Bay too! A magically peaceful place. Like you, we saw no bears, no whales...

Thanks for your opinion

Certainly looks like the right place to live alone. At least, if the owners stand on the roof, they can wave to the house on the other side of the river ;-)
Certainly lots of Hiking opportunities in the area, where was this taken?

An exciting story! And a great photo.
B&W works well here.
Good to be with a captain that knew his stuff, even if he had no teeth ;-)
The clouds here look like it was a pleasant sunny afternoon, but then there's that ominous looking fog bank approaching!
Must have been quite scary inside the fog and not knowing where the land was.

It's not even spring yet...

Ode to the Badlands

A "badlands" ecosystem is unique. It is high desert with a mixture of soft rock layered with harder rock for a visual wonderland carved by water and wind erosion. In North America there is a stretch of badlands ecosystem ranging from Alberta, Canada down through the Dakotas, WY, UT and Colorado in the US. The badlands tend to be the source of large deposits of dinosaur fossil remains, e.g., Dinosaur National Monument in the US.

The last day of our trip before we started our trek back home.

Sunrise onto the South Dakota Badlands

I like this one!
The millions of sunlit spots in the air look great. I assume they are raindrops. Perhaps there was also rainbow somewhere. Or, are they millions of insects, either way they look impressive

Another good one!
Dinosaurs are fascinating for young and old alike.

I could understand you thinking of raindrops. I was puzzled by what look like vertical streaks until I realised they are seed heads on grass.
They are really small sandflies - fortunately not the biting kind but they do have slightly larger cousins who will give plenty of grief once we are properly into spring / summer...

I am intrigued by the badlands. The name creates a mystique. Obviously plenty of good photo ops to be had...

I have made a resolution to at least try some Australian landscapes. I need to get over a negative I have about not enough variation in forest tones...

So are we which is why we keep going back. A one point in the history of North America, the middle third of the US was under water. The moving shores of the Western Interior Seaway provide "highways" for movements of during the dinosaur era. The unique geology and ecology of places like the badlands, arose as the sea way receded followed by the uplift of the Rocky mountain chain, ice ages, etc. The high desert and prairie grasslands are results of sedimentation as this sea dried. Each layer of rock had varying hardness and the bones of prehistoric plants and animals captured within leaving large cashes of fossilized remains. Also one will find areas of fossilized tracks of varying sizes of dinosaurs scattered throughout this area.

In the early 20th century a researcher found an area of about 80 acres that produced over 350 tons on dinosaur fossils that became one of the most significant paleontological finds of the 20th Century in the corner of NW Colorado. Today Dinosaur National Monument cover over 200 thousand acres in Northeast Utah, Northwest Colorado. The Alberta and Dakota badlands were from as the softer "mud rock" was eroded away leaving a layering of sandstone and rocks of varying hardness.

Thanks, I love BC! We had better luck with the whales, as the toothless captain found us many minke and gray whales in the fog bank, and the native guide who could find us no bears did, as a wonderful consolation prize, "sing up" a pod of orcas with an ancient song owned by his family.