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,

Foggy trunks

These were taken on a local walk almost exactly one year ago today.

A view through a foggy winter forest, underlined with a dashing line of snowy tracks

At the edge of the foggy forest, the sun is beginning to light up the nearest trunks

The sun is trying it’s best

We had a walnut tree in the garden but it died two years ago

2710 walnut tree-1 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Some ghostly trees from a while back

2004 neigembos ghostly trees-1005597 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Some impressionist trees

12impressionist trees evening -9112315 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Sunrise - the Trout are Rising

Brooks Lake, WY

Interesting!
The "crunchy" processing makes the summer woodland scene look like there's snow sitting on the branches, at least at the first glance ;-)
It reminds me of a B&W image posted last week by @GreatBustard

Looks like we have a theme running this week with woodland tree trunks :-)
Nice light and a good feeling of depth in that enchanted forest; here in the first one selected, with the ghostly trees.

In the last one the warm light is lovely, it's good how the sun is lighting up the front leaves and trunks. The repeated vertical patterns make it impressive

On my display I cropped half of the sky away and placed the horizon higher up, so the image appeared bigger on my screen. And only then noticed the fisherman on the right. A nice surprise!
Lots of shadow detail here.

Strathnairn

Continuing the woodland theme...

The last two are very effective. I thought the last was the moon until I read your header.
Not so sure about the first, the diagonal of the track I find unsettling.

Not sure about the extreme processing. Not for me, though others may differ. Cropping a bit off the bottom might make for a better composition - feels a bit top-heavy to me.

Lovely delicate processing in these two. Sad about the walnut tree.

Like this...

Fallen

Wanted to post another photo but seeing that this weekly's theme is trees decided to post this photo. Made today, yesterday was very cold and this caused frost on trees, so views were magnificent, hunted for photos 5 hours in -10..-15C cold. This is one of results, it's processed bit with Nik plugins.

Great images. Really like the contrast in the third.

Great image. Feels a bit like a pencil color monochrome. I'd be curious to crop out a bit of the bottom- almost just above the bump on the left- into even more of a 16x20 format.