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.

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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.

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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).
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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,

A “Gams” at Stegmooslam

I’ve been for walks to the top of Stegmoosalm, Austria many times in the past, but last weekend was first time that I met a “Gams” up there .
He was fairly close, and just as curious about us, as we were of him!
They are usually quite shy and far away, but this one watched us closely, from the top of that rocky outcrop

Btw, “Gams” is the German name for an “Alpine Chamois”
And here he is, at home in his snowy landscape

It was a sort of B&W day ;-)

On the way up

Looking down from the top

Back down again

Stegmoosalm, and the Hochkönig mountain range look great in their winter coats

It is always nice to have wildlife in landscape images giving they perspective and depth. You are correct - a great day for B&W. The tonality and smoothness of gradations is very nice - particularly in the last three. Snow in sunlight is a tough nut to crack. You handled it well.

Great day out and beautifully captured. Very atmospheric !!

Approaching Storm

Nice shot !
Those big logs were probbaly all in the sea and thrown around like crazy by the past storms.
Perhaps not such a good idea to go swimming here when it's rough ;-)

Sunset over the ocean

Middle of the River . . .

A bit of practice with exposure stacking. Put the tripod in the water with spiked feet (recently picked up this Sirui water proof/resistant model). I was struggling to get the clouds (and especially the moon) with good exposure with the deep shadows below the tree line. Sun was already down behind the mountains over my right shoulder. Maybe didn't need to blend, but practice is always good.

Blended two images in Luminar and then imported to Apple Photos with a bit more tweaking.

First attempt at ICM, something we see a reasonable amount of, but not anything I've tried before, so I decided to give it a go yesterday with mixed results. Most were rubbish, but these seemed ok. Interestingly my wife who normally likes my photo's thought these were rubbish. Just goes to show taste is very personal

Having said that I'm going tp print these out and mull over them

I love these. Great stuff. Well done. Is that the Sony 90mm Macro lens you were using?

The recent beach scapes I have posted here seem to have been enjoyed so here is another one. This is Carrickalinga at sunset.

I have no idea what ICM means here. I Googled "ICM" and got this:

ICM International Congress of Mathematicians
ICM Integrated Crop Management
ICM Intelligent Contact Management (Cisco)
ICM Intensive Care Medicine
ICM Integrated Coastal Management
ICM Institute of Commercial Management (UK)
ICM International Confederation of Midwives (The Hague, The Netherlands)
ICM Intercom
ICM Image Color Management
ICM International Creative Management
ICM Intensive Case Management (mental health)
ICM Intercultural Communication and Management (Copenhagen Business School; Denmark)
ICM Inner Cell Mass
ICM Institute of Credit Management (UK)
ICM International Capital Management (Canada)
ICM Intrepid Capital Management (various locations)
ICM Information and Content Management
ICM Independent Capital Management (California)
ICM IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics
ICM Inspirational Country Music (awards)
ICM International Conference on Microelectronics
ICM Improved Conventional Munitions (US DoD)
ICM Ikeja City Mall (Nigeria)
ICM Intracluster Medium
ICM In Combinatie Met (Dutch: combined with)
ICM Independent Chip Model (poker)
ICM Image Color Matching
ICM Ibm Classification Module
ICM Interface Configuration Manager
ICM Image Compression Manager
ICM Intelligent Contact Manager
ICM Integrated Color Monitor
ICM Internet Call Manager
ICM Interactive Content Management
ICM Interactive Concept Mapping
ICM Intelligent Call Management
ICM Integrated Chassis Management
ICM Information and Communication Mobile
ICM Infrared Capacity Mapping
ICM Ibm Content Manager
ICM Incentive Compensation Management (sales performance)
ICM Insurance Claims Management (various locations)
ICM Instituto Cultural Mexicano (Spanish: Mexican Cultural Institute)
ICM Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Montreal Heart Institute)
ICM International Council Meeting
ICM International Capital Markets
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière (French: Brain and Spinal Cord Institute)
ICM Ice-Cream Man
ICM Institute for Court Management
ICM Institute for Conflict Management
ICM Information and Communication Management
ICM Ice Cold Merchandisers (Frigoglass)
ICM Ignition Control Module
ICM Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
ICM Internet Call Manager (GTE)
ICM Information Classification and Management
ICM Interim Control Module
ICM Incoming Messages (Panasonic)
ICM Information and Communication Mobile (Siemens AG)
ICM Institute for Complementary Medicine (UK)
ICM Iraq Campaign Medal
ICM Institute of Configuration Management
ICM Interactive Content Management (software)
ICM Internet Communication Manager
ICM Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (IOM)
ICM Internal Controls Manager (Oracle)
ICM Intelligent Call Management (Cisco)
ICM Intelligence Community Management (US House of Representatives)
ICM Independent Citizens' Movement (Virgin Islands)
ICM Informal Credit Market
ICM Integrated Collection Management (US DoD)
ICM Innovation in College Media
ICM Impact Construction Management (Indianapolis, IN)
ICM Injection Compression Molding
ICM International Council of Museums
ICM Integrated Common Manual (National Council for Higher Education Loan Programs)
ICM Institut Canadien de la Migration (French: Canadian Institute for Migration)
ICM Integrated Communications Management
ICM Islamic Constitution Movement
ICM Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (religious order)
ICM International Cyber Marketing, Inc.
ICM Internet Cafe Manager (Pianeta Software)
ICM Island City Monsters (hip hop group)
ICM Insurance Content Management (software)
ICM Itochu Construction Machinery (Japan)
ICM Instituto Chac-Mool (Mexican school)
ICM Integrated Change Management
ICM International Connections Manager (NSFNet)
ICM Institute for Configuration Management (Arizona State University)
ICM Industrial Commercial and Military Packaging (Orange, CA)
ICM Interactive Campaign Manager
ICM International Compliance Management
ICM Internal Clutter Motion
ICM Iodinated Contrast Medium
ICM Intelligence Correlation Module
ICM Integrated Computer Management
ICM Individual Clutch Modulation (automotive)
ICM Intel Configuration Manager
ICM In Call Modification (GSM wireless communication)
ICM Indianapolis Childrens' Museum
ICM Inbound Call Management
ICM Interface Configuration Management
ICM Intelligence Collection Management
ICM Improved Capability Missile
ICM Intelligence Correlation Model
ICM Intrinsic Clutter Motion
ICM Internet Commerce Model
ICM Incident Control Management
ICM Ionic Contrast Medium
ICM International Construction Management Co Pte Ltd (Budapest, Hungary)
ICM International Consumer Markets (Sprint)
ICM Interface Communication Module (Alcatel)
ICM Introduction to College Math
ICM Interconnect Modeling Information
ICM International Control Mission (UN)
ICM IACS Cluster Monitor (AT&T)
ICM Image Conversion and Management Co
ICM Incoming Communication Manager
ICM Information Catalogue Manager
ICM Influence Countermeasures
ICM Integrated Company Manager
ICM Integrated Cluster Monitor (AT&T)
ICM Instrument Communications Manager Interface
ICM Interface Coordination Memo
ICM Intelligence Cycle Management
ICM Interoperability Configuration Manager
ICM Issuance Control Member/Memo
ICM Image Camera Module

Would you care to unpack what you mean? Thanks.

You're gunna hate yourself when you find out... 😉

These two are the most successful for my taste, rather nice. ICM is much harder than it sounds, and even experienced practitioners produce a lot of 'rubbish' to sort through!

Well done for making the effort to practice - I'm too lazy to carry a tripod most of the time! I've tried blending hand held exposures but usually end up deleting them.
Given the time of day, I wonder if the final image is a bit too bright? For me it loses something of that 'end of the day' feel.
A square crop might be interesting too, with a symmetrical reflection and no sky.

Nice portrait of the descending 'gams'. It amazes me how they move so fluently over near vertical terrain.

I'm always (maybe subconciously) looking for the 'intimate' shots in the landscape, and when I looked at the last and zoomed in, it struck me that just the birch twigs against the distant peaks would make an interesting composition, maybe with the silvery trunk along one side. Might have to focus stack to have both sharp... or would it be better as is...?

This second shot is really good.
The huge dark cloud bank on the left contrasting to the burning Red sunset works really well. When biewing at full res , those stripes through the sun make it look almost otherwordly.