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 is a colourful time of the year!

Last week I tried to see if it is possible to capture the beauty of autumn time using only B&W and showed the results in the “Wednesday C&C weekly thread”
Here are some colour versions of those same trips in the Hochkönig region last weekend.
Autumn is definitely a colourful time of the year 😉

When it rains you not only get wet, but you also get rainbows.
Here is the colour version of the same photo I posted in B&W, here you can even see a faint rainbow in the valley, which hardly showed up in the monochrome version.

This rainbow below only appeared for a fleeting moment, and I had to shoot quickly.
Also caught a bird flying by in this shot.

And, down to the river again.
One week later, nearly all the lovely leaves we saw in the trees the week before were now on the floor.
The storm, a few days before this trip ago took care of that !
But they still looked pretty

A couple of autumnal shots around me

301025 zavelstraat shimmering trees by softmarmotte, on Flickr

301025 zavelstraat fields and trees by softmarmotte, on Flickr

All along the Painted Rocks NP shoreline, little streams like this pour into Lake Superior.

Lovely bright autumn colours!
Works everytime when you put those bright colours next to a dark area like in number 1, the colours really shine out :-)

"Painted Rocks" ,...and looks like "painted trees" too at this time of the year :-)
Autumn is great !
Interesting how the stream with its wave crests, and the lake with its wave crests, both have completely different colours.

Cannonballs - The Pearls of the Badlands

When mineral rich water seeps down through the porous layers that make up the badlands, it can deposit those minerals in spaces or gaps in the sediments. The minerals act as a kind of glue, holding these sediments together, often forming around a core. As more and more layers are deposited, the concretion builds outward like a pearl, before being exposed by erosion.

Interesting formation, made more interesting with your explanation.
Well taken. Thanks for sharing

I really liked the mountain! The rainbow, beautiful colours of the trees are lovely, but the mountain takes my breath away!

Small camera, big fun !

This reminds me of tropical shots with palm trees on a white sandy beach, the sea, and a blue sky. You composed it very nicely.

I learnt something new today, thank you.
The photo looks like a capture from a lifeless planet.

Lincoln Cathedral
A little bit old style PPing with grains, vignette etc..

There have been many movies shot in the Dakota badlands. If course some westerns like "Dancing with Wolves" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Speak of lifeless planets also some si-fi films like "Starship Troopers," "Mercury Rising" and "Armageddon."

Has an interesting feeling to the image,... as you said "old style pp".
I like the way you caught the couple having the picnic on the lawn. Thanks for posting.
It's probably just a personal thing, but I like to "correct" the perspective distortions like "keystoning" that cause the buildings to slope inwards, it's caused when the camera points upwards while taking. Makes the stairs look a bit odd in this shot.
Here is a very quick (not perfect) edit to sort of straighten the church tower and make the stairs look a bit more normal.
...but maybe you wanted that distortion as part of the look ;-)

Thanks for taking time and fixing distortions. I liked both of them :)