The Weekly Landscape Thread

...starting this week's weekly thread earlier again, since I'll be very busy tomorrow with other things :-)

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 walk along the "Panorama path" looking down at Dienten below

The village of Dienten is in the Hochkönig region of Austria and about a 15min drive from our holiday home in Mühlbach.
The panorama path ("Dorfpanoramaweg") is less than 4km long, with not much hill walking involved, so it's all really easy.
This was an overcast day, after a few days of rain, so everything was looking lovely and green.

My wife took a longer way back, so I sat waiting with a beer in a beer garden in Dienten :-)
There, by chance, I met an English family, travelling through Europe, and it turned out that the guy was about the same age as me, and went to the same two schools that I went to in England. Coincidences do happen !

The church up on the hill

The panorama path leading away from the church

A small waterfall along the way

A steep meadow and the view to the mountains

Shot while traveling in BC, Canada about thirty years ago. Praktica MTL-3 with a M42 Zeiss 50mm f/1.8 Pancolar. Color negative scanned on a Canon all-in-one MG8210.

Hastings