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,

Quiraing National Park

Back in 2015 we visited the Quiraing National Park on Skye.
In retrospect, we could have easily spent our whole holiday just on the Isle of Skye
As it was, we only had a few days during a wider, longer tour of Scotland.
The Quiraing Nation Park is a must!
The potential for landscape photography is huge. Here’s just a couple of shots from one of the hikes we made there.
I have that second shot, printed big as a background picture, behind our whisky bar at home 😊

The famous tree

ICM,
Canary Wharf

Cool, taken in a fly-by at "Wharf speed" 😉

You made me laugh :) Wharf speed !!!

Here is non wharfed version...

Cool. So... you "wharfed it" in post?

No, I didn't mean that, but I can see why you thought this way.

Ahhh... two separate pictures. :-) Beautiful shots!

Clouds over the ocean

I luke the second one better but first is interesting.

A few shots from recent travels.

Billings Zoo

The Mountain

This one was shot somewhere in northern Montana a few weeks earlier from the rest of the set

One of many bridges in Astoria, Oregon

View from a bridge in Astoria

Cape Meares Lighthouse, Oregon Coast

Oregon Coast

Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad

SFO Airport

San Francisco Downtown

Gorgeous colours. I like the way that pink/orange light can be felt all over the landscape.

There's something about pretty fluffy white clouds that also get me to take the camera out of the bag

That's a great set of nice places you've visited lately. They are all different but all good in different ways.

I think I like number 3 best. It has interesting objects in the foreground, midground and the backgound, giving it a nice feeling of depth. And the colours are gentle. I'm guessing it is an evening shot with the sun fairly low and making the texture in the hills nicely visible?

Some pictures of the Northwest Canoe Journey 2026 as the various tribal boats approached and passed-by our shoreline (9 pics -- more than I typically post). These pictures were taken on 30-JULY which was one day prior to reaching the journey's end @ Nisqually (southern portion of Puget Sound). Here's a link to a map (below) and you can see that the coastal tribes started paddling in mid-July (two weeks prior). A few boats came ashore on our beach (second to last photo) and I opened up the bathroom in my office for those who needed to "use the facilities" (it's an old garage that I converted into office space -- so it was pretty easy to accommodate -- and everyone was so polite and thankful). Most of the pics are in the 350 to 500mm FL range. I figured some of these would fit into the "landscape" category!

LINK:
www.nisqually-nsn.gov/application/files/5917/8519/1496/CanoeRoutesLandings_Ltr_20260722.pdf

Flotilla approaching (canoes and support vessels):

This is a nice one!

Very nice sunset! I like sunsets. The exposure of 1/2500 sec. @ f/1.8 - was that a manual selection or did the camera choose the setting?