+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #3, 2025.02.21

You have to view this one in full res or the whole point of the image is lost (for me). In full resolution it’s those many small bright white water drops that catch my eye and make it interesting. The lake is viewed through the curtain of that branch. The brown/orange grass looks a bit busy to me, I wonder if changing the image to a wider format by cropping some from the bottom might help with that ?

It must have been a great trip. I really enjoy snow shoe hikes through the forests with fresh snow here in Austria, but I've never been to Lapland.
I prefer this series to your previous one, the lighting here is a bit brighter and there’s more contrast and clarity visible with good texture in the snow.
These are my picks from your set.
The second here shows us a typical winter sun, just bearly breaking through and gently lighting up the cold landscape.
The last one is my favourite. That curvy path, marked by the posts, takes us up the steep climb and gives some nice depth to the image.

Crape myrtle and roses

This is certainly one of the shots where a long thin panorama format works well.
Everything here is so red, Iron ore must be everywhere, and then taken at sunset as well!
The contrast to the blue sky with that scattering of little clouds make the image nice and colourful.

Magnificent shot, nice warm light casting rays. I like that sky is not burnt out but retains its colour.

Both versions seem to work well but i like coloured version better as it seems to separate different parts better. Only change I would made is tad more sky to balance image better.

I was not enjoying snowshoes much but it was neccessary evil to boldly go where man has not gone before 😀 Normally there would be much more snow but even with knee deep snow it was hard to move without snowshoes. And they were lot of help on steep tracks, i saw signs that some went down on their bums as it was too slippery and steep to walk with normal shoes.
IIRC last shot was taken with camera leveled to show actual terrain pattern, it's easy to tilt camera and lose all perception of steepness. But this resulted with slightly unbalanced image, normally I'd framed it bit upward.

The Long and Winding Road

Alan's shot from La Gomera last week riminded me of some of the spectacular landscapes of the Canaries. This is the Arenas Nigras area of Tenerife, looking across to La Gomera in the distance.

Excellent shot. Yes, of course it's all about the light. I was so entranced by the sun rays that at first I didn't notice the stream. Scope for a more tightly framed composition too?

Lots going on here with the reflections and the shadows.The foreground plants add another layer of interest, but I find the diagonal shoreline a bit if a distraction. But I imagine it would be difficult to exclude it.

I like a good ruin 😉
I feel this one would be better without the foreground fence and perhaps a lower viewpoint with the flowers 'reclaiming' the landscape.

This is one where I prefer the B&W, not so much because of the muddy coloured rocks, but I find the mass of green a bit too much. Maybe that's just me! The white of the flowers then sets off the white clouds nicely.

Nice veil of catkins bearing their raindrops. I agree with Fireplace about the brown grass - maybe crop a touch or desaturate the orange.

A photographer's playground! These are the ones that caught my eye.

Very effective use of the pano format. At first glance I got the sense that the train was moving!