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,

I'm away for a long weekend so don't have an image to start this week's thread.
So let's see who can be the first to post this week :-)
Have fun.
Trevor

Yeahhhh I win this week's prize

Some from my hikes above Saint Sorlin in the Savoie above 2,000m. Still a lot of snow (unusually) which changed my route somewhat

PXL_20260531_090326275.RAW-01 by softmarmotte, on Flickr

PXL_20260531_075851839.RAW-01-EDIT by softmarmotte, on Flickr

PXL_20260531_070209173.RAW-01-EDIT by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Pic No. 2 is my favorite. Really nice. What a wonderful area to hike and enjoy the outdoors! That's an understatement. LOL. I looked at the map and found Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves (the village) with the ski area nearby. Holy smokes, there are ski areas everywhere! I need to learn more about all of this. Someday, it would be great to take a winter skiing trip to the French Alps -- before I get too old. I skied 3 times this past season, but that was only at our humble little mountain here (Snoqualmie Pass). Of course, I "remember" (kind of) the 1968 winter Olympics in Grenoble -- I was 9 years old at the time. Jean-Claude Killy -- he was THE MAN. :-)

I was able to get away from the house yesterday (2026-06-11) and made a short drive into the city. Parked the car and went for a walk. This view is looking south from Elliott Bay Park. Six vertical frames stitched. Cropped and re-sized to approx. 50% (pixels) and compressed to about 10% of original (bytes). The very light gray smoke in the air is due to a warehouse fire that was burning nearby (off the image to the left over the hill).

Lost in the San Rafael Swell

Over a 30 million year process beginning 70 million years ago, a swell ( giant anticline) was pushed up in what is now Southeastern Utah. Today it is called the San Rafael Swell. This done was made up of layers of sandstone and shale. It also contained uranium and vanadium which was mined during WWII. Over time the water and wind turned the sandstone and shale layers into a series of streams, leading to the San Rafael river, canyons, mountains, buttes which line an area known today as Wild Horse Canyon. It contains an 76,000 acre designated Wilderness Area, known as Mexican Mountain Wilderness.

On our way back the photography workshop we took in April to the Capitol Reef area, we stumbled into Wild Horse Canyon and didn't want to leave. We did see a small herd of wild horses, but were not close enough. I also saw a rather large rattle snakes. Turns out it was a great basin rattle snake which are common to the area. It was laying in a spot of sun on the cold early April day. It was also one of the reasons I decided not to take a long hike cross country through the brush and rocks to get a shot of the horses. 😉

Gosh, that area has changed so much since I did geology fieldwork there in the early 1980s. I wild camped just below Col de La Croix de Fer, and spent weeks walking these slopes. There were no ski lifts then or any of the other infrastructue scarring the mountain sides. I think the climate has changed too. There was routinely lots of snow left until at least late June (more than in your photos). Nice to explore these images and see familiar places in a new way. I need to get back to the mountains, but that's looking unlikely this year 😒