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,

Norwegian dream

For the last two weeks I’ve been doing some renovations in my garden. I've finally repaired the electrics and we now have light and power in the 3 little garden huts again 😊 But no time for hiking or photo tours ☹

So , here‘s a blast from the past.
A photo taken with the good old Nikon D90 in 2010. a shot that I called “Norwegian dream”

I printed this on canvas quite big (about 120 x 90cm) and donated it to the local public sauna. It's been on display in the relaxing room there for over 13 years :-)

And rightly so. This is wonderful composition with the pattern in the rocks complementing the pattern in the clouds. The rocks draws the eye back to the mountains and the clouds brings the eye back full circle. The reflections all to that.

Shell Creek Canyon

I opened the thread/photo and immediately thought, wow, very serene and dynamic at the same time.

Nice shot!!
I might have raised the shadows just a touch. Just enough to give a little more visible detail in the dark areas without destroying your nice contrast of that scene.

Many thanks :-)

Another sunset today. New to me, feedback appreciated

Reaching back a couple years to a favorite spot I've posted from before.

Three lighthouses:

1. Coquille River Lighthouse
   

2. Heceta Head
   

3. Yaquina Head