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,

The Plitvice National Park

Once again a dive into the archives.
In 2014, on a tour through Croatia, a visit to the Plitvice national Park was a must!
Here’s a just a few shots from that beautiful area.
It may start off sunny, but it’s the rain that feeds the lakes and waterfalls and makes for all that stunning scenery.

Clearing Storm

I think I've mentioned before, but sometimes that 75mm Viltrox and shallow depth of field makes for interesting images.

Second from which post ?
Quote button ;-)

Thanks, I feel better already :-)
The water here has a lovely blue-turquoise colour!
Watching waves crash against cliffs has a special fascination for me, perhaps that's true for most people.

Great composition with the rider coming through that gate with the fences on both sides as leading lines to him.
The mountain range looks impressive and the clouds are amazing. Especially those wispy mid grey clouds look good, they must have been blown by a real fast wind just at their height.
And as the title says, the storm has passed and the brighter weather is here now.

That lens (with your help) is picking out a single tree and showing all its lovely bark texture and its spiky twigs, without any detailed distractions from the others. Works well !
I like these two best.

East Waterway - looking north from Spokane Street (this past week). Tribal fishing nets. Stitched panorama (4 frames @ 35mm). Cropped and re-sized.

Loads of interesting detail here!

One good photo of Barbados deserves another.

Richard Haynes boardwalk.

Great looking sky. The silhouetted trees set it nicely in Barbados. I've never seen such purple colours in a sunset, did you intensify them in pp or was it more or less like that while you were there