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,

Wild-romantic Echerntal

Haven’t been out much lately, so here’s something from my archives.
This time of the year , back in 2022 we visited the wild-romantic Echerntal valley near Hallstatt in Austria.
The valley runs East-West so it doesn’t get much sunshine, but there’s quite a lot of water running in the Waldbach river, and a few really nice waterfalls.
Near the end of the valley there’s also a relic of the last ice age called the “Glacier gardens” with hollows and other cool formations
It’s a place that's inspired painters like Carl Hasch since about 1850 and, of course, continues to do so for us modern day photographers 😉

The scene at the start of the tour, just about to enter into the valley

Living up to its "wild-romantic" name, with a sprinkling of autumn leaves and all the moss covered rocks

Only the top of the valley is in the warm bright sunshine

the source

With not much light, no filters are needed to get the silky water effect

one of the hollows

I enjoyed my 'walk'. Alps in Autumn is just awesome. Best time of the year

Heading to the alps next month and looking forward to the autumn views. One from last year

011124 b albiez saint cows les aiguilles-017058 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Yes, indeed, the Alps are fantastic. Nice shot with the cows posing for you in the foreground :-)
Looks similar to the "Drei Zinnen" from the Italian Dolomites in the background, but the photo name says Albiez Saint, so i guess it must have been taken in the South of France.

Lovely view. I guess that is Selimiye? , one of the most beautiful villages in Marmaris.
Would be great to be there right now. I need a holiday :-)

Wonderful juxtaposition of the "barnyard" with mountain peaks in the background. My oh my do these cows have a lovely view to awaken to every day.

Cliché

Everyone needs one.

This looks like somewhere I'd like to explore.

Oh My! The Aiguilles D'Arves. These are such familiar peaks to me, being in the heart of the area I studied all those years ago. The triple peaks, one with its 'ears' are so distinctive. You were lucky to have a cloudless view, and such friendly locals to pose for you 😁. It's a wonderful area to explore, and relatively little known, especially to 'foreigners'. Most of the pictures I have are on old transparencies that I tell myself I will scan one day... But I have revisited a couple of time recently - in autumn, yes a great time to visit. Thank you for bringing me a smile on this dreary morning here in northern England.

This little lake was one of my camping spots, so this was the view I woke up to every morning (not always, but once or twice with snow, even in July!)

And from the other side, above Valloire

The views are more spectacular from the Valloire side and a bit more gentle from the Albiez side. Snow can happen anytime of year, though the small glacier between Albiez and La Meije is gone ...Lovely view of the lake

going with the alpine theme

Going with the apparent mountainous theme of this week's thread, I'm adding a recent picture taken during golden hour from Zotta Alm in Alpbach, Austria. I was mostly busy photographing the group I was with, but with a view like that, it's hard not to get distracted.
I'm honestly quite amused that I accidentally took a shot that so heavily reminds me of the kitchy alpine tourism campaign. But what can I say, it really does look like that.

Beautiful scene very well captured with an ideal amount of contrast.
The reflections really make it sing.

Really like this one. The blue & white colours go so well with each other, and with the sun shining on the mountains, it looks so bright and inviting.
That touch of yellow in the foreground somehow makes the blue and white look even better.
Well composed !

Nice to see you posting again :-)
It certainly looks like a photo worthy of an Alpine tourism campaign !
With the sun shade at the top, it places you directly on a balcony where you can enjoy the view from the hotel.
Nicely composed shot with the balcony flowers in the corner glowing bright red in the sun and contrasting with the view of green sunlit meadows in the valley.
I like that fence too, adds some framing to the composition.
Shooting into the sun isn't always easy, but you've pulled it off nicely here !

First snow of the season in Aspen, Colorado about this time of year, at the John Denver Sanctuary

Beautiful!
Crisp fresh air !
The first snow is always something magical.
It's a lovely photo.

Gorgeous colour complements, and a lovely leading compositon.