+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #1, 2025 02.07

Oh, I like this!
Landscape photos need good light and you have that here; lighting up the spray from the waterfall with sunrays and also highlighting the flat top of the "cliff"
B&W works well here! Good contrast & tonality

Thanks, that is what scouting out the scene for a couple days and deciding that getting up at 4AM was the best way to capture the best light. East is over the ridge line and the falls is alleged from East at the top to West at the bottom. When the sun lit up the top, I started firing. It took an HDR of three shots to get this. However, the Q2M works really well for HDR. There is no color to get shifted like can happen in color HDR.

Scouting the scene certainly paid off here!
Generally, if you can go back to a scene several times you can get a better result. That's one of the advantages of local photography compared to trips far away

This is a very good composition. The tips of the canoes echo the summits of the mountains and their reflections, which is very clever. You’ve used triangle shapes very skilfully. I don’t think this photo could have been taken with your eyes closed 😉

Tranquility

I like this. The juxtaposition of the canoe form leading lines to the reflections also creating a point of tension that draws you eye. The the reflections lead to mountains in the background. Nicely seen.

Hi Alan
This is Thread #1 of the new weekly thread that starts every Friday.
The first started yesterday on the 7th and will run until the new one starts on Friday 14th
I just changed the title to make it clearer.
So this one is still open and ready for your photo :-)

Thanks Fireplace for setting up this new thread. Always good to see what others are up to in places I will probably never get to.

In The Footsteps of JMW Turner

A few weeks ago I visited the 'Turner in January' exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland, and being a long time fan of his landscapes, when I got home to Galloway I stumbled on an opportunity to emulate his style while out on a daily walk. At the exhibition I made a mental note of a few things; unimportant areas of his compositions were often left almost blank; great use of contrast between light and shadow; high key distant mountains had an ethereal quality, leaving lots to the imagination. I love to play with Intentional Camera Movement, and wondered if this would result in something interesting...

The geologist in me loves this shot! And the landscape photographer too. Clear blue sky is often seen as a 'bad day' by landscape photographers, but here the colour contrast is fabulous. I would be scouting around for abstract details and mini-landscapes 😁

I like the veil of mist separating the foreground trees from the distant view.

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This is avery clever shot. My first impression was that those pointy canoes were just a bit too close to the pointy mountain reflections... But then I realised that that creates a great tension in what could otherwise be merely a fantastic classic shot 😁

Fabulous shot. Immediately put me in mind of Peter Dombrovskis' famous image Morning Mist; Rock Island Bend. Worth the effort for those lighting conditions.