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,

Reflections on Lake Augstsee

We’ve had a photo mounted on a thick solid wood base hanging on the wall in our stairway for the last 8 years.
I still like it.
I took this on a hike near the top of Mount Loser in Austria.

Here’s the photo itself.
It was a stitch of 6 vertical shots at 19mm taken with an Olympus EM1 ii
The reflection of the snowy mountain in the partially frozen lake was quite incredible.
The walk was a lot of fun.

A River Runs Through

The Gros Ventre river starts high on the "great divide" between DuBois and Jackson, WY and heads Southwest eventually dumping into the Snake. It runs through some of the most pristine mountain regions the US has to offer. It also offers some of the best fishing for Yellowstone cutthroat trout one can find.

Up in the high country not far from the headwaters.

It's a classic "grand landscape" image, with a wide open valley and lots of nice textures to view. The lighting is good too, and as usual the tonality of your B&W shot is very well done. Those white clouds offer a nice contrast to rocks and forest.
The stories of the trout sound very inviting :-)

So cool to see it printed and framed. I need to do more of that. Cool image. It took me a minute to recognize the reflection before reading your description.

I quite like the tonality, especially for what feels like could have been midday light. The clouds are just the right extra detail. Nice shadows, without going too far. I'm curious if a more 16x20/panorama crop might more emphasize the curve of the river?

A landscape/waterscape interface. The sun was just about to set and these rain showers were moving into the coast (hence the bit hazy feeling).

Excellent! The photo, the print on the wall, and the hike, too. The posted image (stitch) is really cool. Excellent hi-rez IQ. Which is why I also like to stitch. Plus, it is fun to do. A craft, of sorts. And it got me thinking... that a while back I mentioned that I'd "definitely" get some mountain snow shots this season (skiing or hiking). But we are still WAY behind on snowfall here (I've only been "up" that one time 4 weeks ago... cellphone shot from the parking lot). So, for this week, I will post a similar mountain scene from a snowshoe hike in 2021 (just so you'll believe me.... that I'm not blowing hot air... that I actually DO get up to the mountains in the winter). LOL. Supplemented with a current "landscape" picture taken a a few days ago. I also have a large print on the wall in the house... it's fun!