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 Saxon Switzerland National Park in Germany

This beautiful region in Germany, called “Saxon Switzerland”, has been an inspiration for artists for hundreds of years. One of the famous ones, with his keen eye for nature, is the romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. He would often go hiking here with his sketch book, gather various impressions and then later, back in his studio create the paintings. Sometimes the painting was a mix of different real scenes.
Here’s 4 shots from a hike last week to the “Bastei”

¡Hola!
Yamaguchi Park was created to commemorate the "sister-city" agreement between my city, Pamplona, ​​and the city of Yamaguchi in Japan. It is a fairly open park, but it features a smaller area inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese gardens...

That's a pretty park. The Japanese aesthetics are quite clear here in your photo.
It's a beautifully composed shot with that darker left hand side framing the bright and airy middle part.
Lots of depth here by including foreground, mid ground and background elements !

Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a high desert plateau in Western Colorado (US) through Eastern Utah. It is high desert and at part of the Colorado River basin. It is a unique geology. In this area the Green River flows into the Colorado ( near Green River, UT). Downstream the Glenn Canyon Damn forms Lake Powell and further down stream the Hoover Damn forms Lake Meade. These massive reservoirs from the life blood of the Southwestern US supplying water for people and winter crops and electricity. Both are dangerously low.

This is a land of extremes. One day flash floods - the next 300 dry as a bone.

The image shows the handiwork of the Colorado river as the works it way through the high desert on its way to Mexico. The Colorado is about 5 miles to my back and as it heads into Canyonlands NP where it is joined by the Green one its way to one of the most majestic places on earth - the Grand Canyon.

In this area of the Colorado Plateau, the rivers has carved the red Navaho sandstone telling its story.

A quick/short walk along the Elliott Bay waterfront north of the downtown area on a pleasant sunny afternoon last week. Single frame cropped and downsized.

Sea of Marmara, Turkey