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 re-posting

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 re-post images in replies to express their analysis and critique. 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,

"Do you want to fly? Leave behind what pulls you down!"

This is the advice on the metal plate attached to a tree in the first photo 😊 (if you zoom in you can find it at the back, in German)
The route up to the Pronebenalm mountain hut has a whole set of such motivating phrases along the way.
I like the way these trees are entwined like lovers.

The mountain hut is still closed for winter, but, when you get to the top, the view is still pretty good.
Here's looking down to the town of Mühlbach am Hochkönig

A view from slightly higher up and looking more to the right.
With the evening light on Mühlbach

Always a pleasure to see the mountains...snow's gone pretty much

Some (more) from my recent Peru trip

140426i arequipa mountains snow by softmarmotte, on Flickr

140426f maras salt mine by softmarmotte, on Flickr

140426i arequipa misti by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Sunrise at Arches

As you drive down the Western slope of the Rockies and enter South Eastern Utah, you enter a wonderland of dramatic arid beauty known as the Utah badlands. The unique landscape formed by layers of volcanic ash and multicolored sandstone and bentonite clay eroded away by water and wind over millions of years to form an other worldly landscape. In this region, there are now fewer than four US National Parks, Arches, Canyon Land, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon along with millions more acres of national recreation areas and conservation areas.

Set your camera on ISO 100, f11, set it on the tripod and enjoy the stark beauty.

Great shots and excellent (very excellent) IQ all around. Which lens did you use for #2 & #3?

That is good advice! For some odd reason, as a deep DOF person, I tend to default to "f/11" when I am walking around.

Wonderful IQ (and views) as usual. #2 is very interesting.

A business meeting wrapped-up early, so I had about an hour to spare on a sunny afternoon last week. My photo brain tends toward the "documentary" side of things -- rather than the creative side (I am limited in that regard). So, here is a documentary shot (pano) taken from the Hamilton Viewpoint. As I recall, 7 frames (overlapped quite a bit) in landscape orientation. Resized to about 50% of original pixels and JPEG compressed to 15% of the original MB's. A technical exercise!