• Members 1611 posts
    Sept. 5, 2025, 8:35 a.m.

    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,

  • Members 1611 posts
    Sept. 5, 2025, 8:36 a.m.

    Wandering Through Styria’s Wine Country

    Back in 2012, we hiked through Austria’s scenic wine country near Bad Radkersburg, close to the Slovenian border.
    One little scene caught my eye; a rustic hut draped in wild vines standing in contrast to the cultivated vineyard beyond.

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    JPG, 3.6 MB, uploaded by Fireplace33 on Sept. 5, 2025.

  • Sept. 5, 2025, 10:28 a.m.

    Back in 2008, Norma and I rode (on motorcycles) over to Austria. While there, we visited Grossglocker - this is the glacier at the top.

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    This is us on the way up.

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    Both pics SOOC.

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    JPG, 4.6 MB, uploaded by AlanSh on Sept. 5, 2025.

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    JPG, 3.6 MB, uploaded by AlanSh on Sept. 5, 2025.

  • Members 1611 posts
    Sept. 5, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

    Hi Alan
    I bet that was an exciting tour!
    The photo of the glacier tongue is pretty impressive. It stretched for several km down the valley in 2008-
    Today it looks very sad :-(
    It is one of the very visible signs of global warming in Austria, with a lot of that ice now all melted away, estimates vary, but it's a few meters thickness per year
    The tongue ( or "Pasterze" in German) is now much shorter, and looks more like a lake in places :-(

    Take a look at this You tube video, it is in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.
    It compares the same viewpoint as in your photo from 2006 vs. 2022
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=blhcAZpNPkI

  • Members 640 posts
    Sept. 5, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

    Headwaters

    Far about the first damn to its flow at Jackson Lake, the Snake starts just on the West side of the Continental Divide in Yellowstone NP becoming no more than a meandering trout stream as it exits the park.

    The mighty Snake.

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    JPG, 12.3 MB, uploaded by tprevatt on Sept. 5, 2025.