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,

A double “Astro day”

The 12th August gave us two interesting opportunities to look up into the sky.
First, the 2026 solar eclipse, then the Perseid Meteor Shower.
We were spending a few days at our holiday home. I have a pair of solar eclipse glasses at home but if you don’t bring them with you they are more than useless.
During the day, I briefly tried looking at the sun through a protective welding mask, sort of worked, but is definitely not suitable for any longer use during the eclipse. So I put together a together a simple pinhole projector with an old cardboard box and some power tape. Works surprising well and is completely safe.
Hiked up to a pasture just under the “Erichhütte” at 1500m near Dienten. Sitting on a rock, facing away from the sun, we watched the eclipse. Everyone wanted to take a look. Here’s a phone snapshot of us on that rock.

I put two holes in the foil, the smaller hole gave the best and sharpest view. This phone shot, looking inside the box at the screen at the far end, certainly doesn’t do any justice at all to what we saw, I couldn’t focus the phone or hold it in the right place, but I guess it sort of proves that it worked.

Here's the BBC guidelines for making the box :-)

Later, on the same day, just before midnight went up to the “Arthurhaus” just below the Hochkönig mountains and tried some astro photography of the Perseids.
Here’s 2 shots with a somewhat more advanced box :-) The Z7 + Viltrox 16mm /F1.8

Necessity is the mother of invention so they say. The last image of the is quite nice.

The Sun Rises in the East

On a recent photo trip to the Colorado Plateau - an area of high desert in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah, the weather was somewhat funky. If you didn't like it, wait an hour and it changed. We had in our 7 days, rain, over cast, sunny with a few clouds and even got 4 inches of snow one night. On morning we arrived an Arches National Park near Moab Utah before sun rise. As the sun rose so did the overcast showing an interesting variegated sky and the rising sun spotlighting the formations.

WHAT A WONDERFUL WEEKLY POST!!! This put a smile on my face. The first one... very clever/inventive, but also... hilarious (the picture)... FUN! How did you know what to do in regard to the "reverse viewing" approach (box design)? And then... WELL DONE on the astro shots. Really nice. I have tried this a on a couple of occasions, but the results were not good. I'm sure it helps being up in the mountains (1500m @ Arthurhaus?) rather than me trying an astro shot at sea level near a large city (Seattle).