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,

Stegmoosalm once again

Here’s some more shots from a place I’ve visited many times.
This week, went with two friends for their first try at snow shoe walking. They are both experienced back country touring ski enthusiasts but the avalanche risk in our area is currently quite high, so we chose a safer place and used the snow shoes.
The next day we went Alpine skiing, with perfect snow and weather conditions, but I left the camera at home that day.
Anyway, we enjoyed some great active days in the mountains 😀

At the top of Stegmoosalm the mountain hut sits at 1450m.
It’s open during the summer to refresh the hikers with local food and drink, but closed in the winter, of course.

This shot shows the results of a recent “roof avalanche”.
If you happened to have been standing under it as it fell, you’d probably still be there; only to re-surface in the spring!

My two sports friends following the ski tracks up the slope.

Another view of that slope with nice ski track patterns and the two small people giving a bit of scale and context

Down below the mist is still hanging over the village

This is the rocky outcrop at Stegmoosalm where I saw and posted here about the ”B&W Gams” 6 weeks ago