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,

Autumn Gold

The autumn colours start a bit later here, I can’t wait!
Here are three shots from a local forest taken back in 2023, about a month later than today
Used the wide angle Z 14-30 with the Z7

Beautiful colours. Love an autumn path...

First snows from a couple of year's ago in te French Alps

041123 mountain views-1 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

and a misty morning in the Belgian Ardennes

061023 beffe 2-1 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

The Gros Ventre High Country

I think this was probbaly a sunny day, with what I assume is a blue sky that has been made dark; almost as if it was night time.
With B&W one is, of course, even more free to process a photo how ever one prefers. But sometimes, in some photos, it feels a bit confusing when the sky is so dark.
If there had been some big bright fluffy white clouds in that "black" sky, I probably wouldn't have even noticed how dark the sky is, but without clouds it feels a bit odd to me.

Very nice.
Autumn is such a pretty time of year. A little white snow, like in the first shot, makes those fall colours stand out even more.
The second, with the mist, and setting sun is all shown in gentle pastel colours

Love this unusual composition.

Fabulous light - as usual in your images 😀 That tiny scrap of cloud in the centre would irritate me...

We had a cold air mass - proceeded by some nice storms the night before. The relative humidity that day was about 20-25%. Only a few puffs of clouds around. In the Colorado and Wyoming high country in the winter the skies are so dark - they can almost seem black (actually a very dark blue). That comes from thin air from altitude and low humidity. Scattering off Nitrogen and Oxygen causes blue skies (instead of black). High altitudes - the air is less dense. Added scattering off of water vapor is what gives skies a lighter blue.

On winter day when I lived in Colorado, it had been cold for weeks. I had terminal cabin fever. I decided to call a friend and see if he wanted to go up to the mountains and do some cross country skiing. My wife thought I was crazy since it was so cold. It was about 0 deg F (-18 C). There was virtually no humidity. After we got up into the mountains at high altitudes away from the haze and pollution from the valley, the sky was so dark it almost seemed black against the white snow.

This image was taken at over 11,000 feet elevation in very low humidity. The sun was bright and direct which in comparison made the skies seem a darker blue. I have always been drawn to the starkness of the high desert - particularly for black and white. That type of light is one reason people like Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Russell Lee, Elliot Porter, etc. (in his B&W) days

For some reason my last sentence was not finished in the post or I didn't finish it. What I meant to say was that many photographers and even painters, e,g,, Georgia O'Keefe spent their time in New Mexico because of the low humidity and altitude that produced the hard direct light and as a result the dark skies.

Thanks, that’s fascinating! I learned something here.
The difference in the altitude, especially when it is cold and dry does make that sky look really different to what I’m used to.
Here in Austria, the mountains where I usually go hiking are about 1500-2000m high (4500-6000 feet) and it can be cold in winter, say -10°C or perhaps -15°C, at those temps it is also very dry as all the moisture has frozen. Under such conditions I’ve noticed that a blue sky does tend to look a bit darker and somewhat more intense.
But it seems, in comparison to where your picture was taken, that I’m still in the lowlands on a warm day 😉
Maybe one day I’ll get the chance to go higher and see such dark blue skies for myself.

Very nice colours, this is my pick.

I am very tempted to get an Olympus camera, but I know I will not use it as much as I love to!
Very nice, detailed captures.

Very nice composition

A very nice set, is the opposing coast still Turkey or a Greek island?

Or use the BW colour channel sliders to reduce the blue channel’s exposure to almost zero and increase the contrast. It is a kind of cheating perhaps :) but that's why I prefer colour photos for BW results.