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,

Rose Garden

Day Lilies

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I've started the weekly thread one day earlier this week, since I’m off to Vienna tomorrow, despite the heat wave ☹
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The same Chamois?

Last weekend we also had a quick hike to the Stegmoosalm It’s not unusual that the mist was hanging low down in the mountains, and it even rained a bit.
The highlight was a glimpse of a mountain Chamois. Maybe it was the same Gams or at least a friend of the one we saw at the same place this last winter. The für looked quite different this time, it was a lighter brown for the summer time. It’s quite normal that they molt twice a year and get a very different looking winter coat; with thicker fur with a much darker grey almost black colour.
So maybe the same one ?

Low hanging clouds at Stegmoosalm

Here’s the Gams we spotted this weekend

And here “he” is photographed last winter in more or less the same place. B&W seemed to fit better for winter shots.

Love the b&w white photos of the "Gams". I've never heard of this term before - is it a local name for Chamois?

Tim

Thanks,
... yes it's the local Austrian name.