The Weekly Landscape Thread

I won't be around to comment on your images this week,
but I'm sure you can comment on each other's images and get a good discussion going :-)
Have fun !

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,

Lost World

One autumn in the Picos de Europa we hiked up through mist and cold drizzle, through dripping beech woods and almost invisible limestone crags. We stopped for refreshment and almost decided to abandon the day and turn back. "Lets just see what's behind that big rock on the path ahead"... Miraculously the clouds parted to reveal a hidden valley nestled between the peaks, bathed in sunshine. We carried on and spent a wonderful afternoon exploring the landscape before heading back down into the murk. On arrival back at the hotel we were told it had rained all day... 😁

The Avalon wiliderness in Newfoundland

Bear Country - Welcome to the Other Florida

as mentioned in the OP,...
I won't be around to comment on your images this week,
but I'm sure you can comment on each other's images and get a good discussion going :-)
Have fun !

And the clouds parted1 Nice story and interesting composition - almost abstract.

Good light and interesting sky made better by the reflections.

Lovely light captured in this one.

This has quite a forbidding aura to it for me. I don't feel comfortable in places like this, even without bears! But you've captured the sense well.

The Chassahwitzka Preserve is a large tract of land on the FL west coast. It is state preserve for the protected FL black bear. It is also the home of many interconnecting springs that bring cave divers from all around to dive and in some cases die, e.g., Eagle's Nest.

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It is not the bear I am concerned with, there are rattlers in there bigger than your calf. On the other hand you leave them along - they leave you alone. Clyde Butcher has made a career wading around in the Everglades carrying his camera gear in a canoe. Clyde always said, it's not the snakes, gators, panther or bears that will get you - they get out of your way. It's the wild hogs.

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This was on an outing with some friends. I was playing around will long exposure to capture cloud movement. This was 18 seconds. It was a bit windy so the tops of the pine trees were moving. The road is sharp as is most of the palmetto scrub. Interestingly a truck drove though while the capture was being taken. I think the long exposure gave it some of its eerie aura.

Been in Iceland on holiday and found it a great place for beautiful wideopen landscapes

270825b distant glacier by softmarmotte, on Flickr

The image certainly has a “wide open space” feeling to it. The sky seems very close to us with its expanse of low hanging clouds. I might have cropped some off the top to give it, say, a panoramic 16x9 format and even more open feeling to the view.
Those lava field in Iceland are something special; where the yellow/green moss slowly reclaims the land :-)

Good point about the cropping. I tried a few versions and thought this one worked. I am a sucker for big skies and come from mft with a 4/3 crop...which is what my preference is. Nice to have other opinions