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,

Riedinger Waterfalls once again!!

I’m sure you all know what the Riedinger waterfalls look like by now, especially after I’ve already posted multiple threads about them.
But anyway, here are some more shots from this weekend 😉
It’s simply one of our go-to hikes. It’s easy walking to them and the scenery on the way is good and they do look a bit different every time we visit. I’m curious which one of these you like best.

In the week before this visit it had rained a lot so there’s more water than usual in the falls. Austria is known for having lots of fresh clean water all year round in rivers, lakes and wells. But before this recent very welcome rain we’d been having drought-like conditions. There was less snow in the winter, so that leads to less meltwater in the rivers during the year. And on top of that, it was the driest spring in 169 years of weather records ☹ You can imagine the problems for agriculture. But also the hydro-electric power stations (that make up 50-65% of our electricity supply) they had to reduce the output for lack of water.
The ground water level is quite low at the moment and all he rain we just had didn’t top it up much, because most of that rain was soaked up by the plants and the top soil layers or just ran away in the rivers.
So everything is green and looking real good right now, just as it should be, but the next heat wave has started again today.

The waterfalls are in the distance

Getting closer

Some more detailed shots

Beautiful. I love the first one with the perspective of the water and the mountains. Weird climate. on our side of the Alps we had so much snow it closed ski resorts and some of the cols were only open at the beginning of this month...Then it snowed at 2000 m on the 5th June and now in the valleys +40c. But of course climate change is a myth...

I like the first one too because there are plenty of pleasant green elements, but my favourite was the 4th where you framed the steep cliffs above the falls.

Not quite as spectacular Trevor but some bucolic landscapes on my morning walk. It's what is called snikheet here...so all activity happens before 9am

190626 wheat and sky by softmarmotte, on Flickr

190626 field by softmarmotte, on Flickr

190626 field & trees by softmarmotte, on Flickr

Sculptor: Mother Nature

Chipping away slowly with water and wind, bit by bit over for millions of years. Mother Nature displays her work.
One more for Wild Horse Canyon in the San Rafael Swell.

Nice...love the lines and I'd like to see more of them (maybe a bit less sky in BW). Like the fluffy clouds on the top of the peak

Uchisar Castle, Cappadocia, Turkey

Beautiful. The IQ is superb.

Really great color and IQ (from the Panasonic DMC-GM1). Yes, I see that it is hot in Belgium right now! Here, we have also been in the low 30's (low 90's F). BTW... for "voetbal" fans, the Belgian national team is headquartered at the Sounders facility in Renton. I am a Rave Green supporter and go to many of the matches. When the kids were younger, we had season tickets (2007 thru 2013). US versus Australia today here in Seattle. There were hoards of crazy people dressed-up (and "painted") in red, yellow and black wandering around downtown this past Monday! :-)

That is... exquisite!

Are those door and window openings? I am not familiar with this castle. I will look it up and get informed. Beautiful pic (great IQ). Cropped or stitched? Very interesting. Amazing. One of these days, I would like to visit Turkey.

Image has been cropped from the bottom.

All these holes are remains of the living quarters. There are quite a few throughout Cappadocia. There are even hotels made inside these rock formations.

Nice series. I really like the first one for the context as mentioned. The detail/close up of the waterfall is nice also. The 1/20th shutter speed feels just right.

Really like the layers of color in that first one. Leads my eye from front to back. I'd be tempted to crop closer to more of a 16x20 and eliminate some of the blue, but I also like that bit of clouds at the top.

A bit more from the recent Lupine bloom.

Great depth via the combo of tonality and composition. I would also be a bit tempted to trim a bit off the top.

In the history of the earth, the Western Interior Seaway was a shallow marine waterway that covered about 1/3 of what is not the Western US. It connected the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea. It range from what is now Kansas West to what the western Nevada. Yes the Rocky mountains used to be under a sea. Because of that layers of laid down on the sea floor. These layers were formed of shale and sandstone. The uplift that created the Rocky mountains was from about 55-85 million years ago. Following that the uplift further west as later which formed much of the intermountain region in Western Colorado, Utah and into the great basin of Nevada. The San Rafael lifted the sea bed which was the sea bottom of layers.

I would have liked to have had more time to spend. We might go back after my wife gets her new hip and I get my new knees and are more mobile. It is an area worth exploring and more importantly it has not been discovered by the "horde."