+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #40, 2025.11.14

A couple more from my French Alps long weekend / Excellent IQ.
Early Morning Sun / B&W is perfect, great contrast (just right)
Not Tuscany / That's a heck of a vantage point.

Thank you. And yes, the waves are pretty good...

Hi cpm,
welcome to the Weekly Landscape Thread :-)

That's quite a detailed sharp shot, and the light on Mount Rainier is very good , the air must have been very clear that day if it's 50 miles away!
Yes, a classic shot with the volcano in the middle; it let's you see see just how much that mountain dominates the comparitively flat landscape.
With all that detail available, if you wanted to, you could crop in quite a bit to make the mountain, and all the cranes, in the midground look bigger and place them in any desired position of the resulting image.

Thanks :-)
Yes, it was stitched from about 5 or 6 vertical shots. The reflection looks especially good here because the water was so dark; being in the shadow of the cliffs behind us. That shadow reached all the way up to the legs and snout of the troll. And so the direct sunshine on the rock formation really shone out in the reflection in that dark water.
The blue colour in the foreground came naturally because it was all in shadow and reflecting the sky :-)

This is a beautiful photo. However, the websize version you posted is oversharpened for my tastes. Speaking just for myself, for some photos, it can be a real pain to find just the right amount of sharpening to apply for the websize version. It can be super frustrating when I have a too sharp and too soft version, and anything in between comes across as neither here nor there! : )

Glassless window:

This image has only had a very small amount of Sharpening applied in the Raw converter and a very small amount of Texture applied just to the rocks there also. No other sharpening has been done.

I actually thought this was a decayed castle wall! But perhaps the troll origins are a more fun idea...

The *ist D provides such great outputs like this, very good color gradation and good shot!

Nice framing

I've had an infrared modified Lumix GF3 that was gifted to me over a year ago, that I somehow didn't use up until a few days ago, I decided to go out to a lake and take some photos!

Hi cpm,
welcome to the Weekly Landscape Thread :-)

That's quite a detailed sharp shot, and the light on Mount Rainier is very good , the air must have been very clear that day if it's 50 miles away!
Yes, a classic shot with the volcano in the middle; it let's you see see just how much that mountain dominates the comparitively flat landscape.
With all that detail available, if you wanted to, you could crop in quite a bit to make the mountain, and all the cranes, in the midground look bigger and place them in any desired position of the resulting image.

Thank-you Fireplace33. I will try to be a regular contributor. It looks like a fun thread... and the weekly installments will hopefully motivate me to get out to do some shooting! :-) I appreciate your suggestion about cropping... and I took a swing at it. THANKS for the encouragement.

Using the foreground as as a nice frame for the view is working well here. It gives the viewer a feeling of depth

I've never tried infrared before . Looks like fun.The results certainly look otherwordly.
Almost like "moon light" conditions when looking at just the bluish white grass and leaves.