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 reposting

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 repost images in replies to express their analysis and critique. The reposted image may remain permanently or be removed after a short period. 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

View from the Bell Pavilion

At the end of 2019 we went on a holiday to South Korea, had a fantastic tour with a local guide, just for our family.
He knew all the best places and when to be there 😊
Here’s two shots from a visit to a temple at the top of a mountain. It was the Bell Pavilion at Seokguram Gyeongju just as the sun was setting.
The sunset light created a river of gold for us and the haze made several layers visible and softened the bright sun too.
Both shots were taken as 3 shot bracketed exposures and combined.

you can just see the edge of the big bell hanging between two pillars on the left

Gardening. Japan.

These gardeners are sweeping the floor of the water channel.

From the same Japanese garden. Kanazawa.

Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Mesa Arch at sunrise is an iconic photo spot. The morning I was there, I shared it with about 10 other photographers, some quite rabid and far better equipped than I was. It requires a drive and a dark hike but it's worth the effort. Our national parks are under attack right now, and it breaks my heart. So much beauty could be lost.

The King at Sunset

Standing on the plateau overlooking Bryce Canyon as the sun dips lower in the West, all of a sudden - the tallest formation was spotlighted as if it were a King on a large chessboard. I was so taken by the landscape that years later returned to the area to ride my horse across it. Ebenezer Bryce once quipped about the landscape of National Park in his namesake - "a Hell of a place to lose a cow."

Taken in 1984 at Bryce Canyon using a Mamiya RB 67 on Kodak Pan X, developed in Agfa Rodinal 1:100 semi stand development.

Amicolola Falls very top. You have to go about 600 stair steps up to get to it and then down.

Not the best of compositions, but I liked the way those mountains looked in the distance.

River

Our weather here is very warm, but nature hasn't woken yet from winter, so it's very drab right now. Thusly I find consolation in reviewing images from Lapland trip...

Great image, love layering here, light reflection from river seems to balance image nicely.

The gardeners in the park shot is interesting, I saw something a bit similar during my trip to South Korea a few years back.

I also saw such big trees with their huge and heavy horizontal branches that had been given supports.
The many vertical lines of those supports gives this image added interest.
The lush greens and well cared for park, and of course those reflections in the lake, make this a great place for a photo walk.

A lovely shot from an iconic place.
Great framing!. The red glow under the arch is amazing. The warm light in the hazy air gives some lovely depth to the shot. That rim lighting on the bottom of the opening is very nice and the rocky pillars provide fantastic scenery.

I’m in two minds about famous iconic places,…
Not sure I like the idea of sharing such a view with 10 others photographers. They could possibly all be jostling for the best position, perhaps arriving long before the moment and setting up a tripod and not budging, then possibly even getting someone plonk themselves right in front of them. Seems to me more like frustration and possible latent arguments, instead of enjoyment of photography in the natural world 😉
But of course I could be completyl wrong and all/most are nice and considerate?

I don't know the area, but I'm assuminhg this is an scene with massive jagged peaks, but I might be wrong?
I've got no known objects that I can use for scale, so it's a bit of added mystery for me here.
The light catching just the tops of those peaks and putting the deeper places between them into dark shadow gives a nice 3D feeling to the scene.
as always the toning is very good.

Of the three shots, this is the one I prefer. The light and contrast here is better and the lines in the freshly made fields give some good structure to the image. The tractor gives a point of interest to zoom in to & see see what it is. Pity it isn't a bit bigger/closer, or perhaps on the top of the ridge so that it's less obscured by that tree and ridge.
The power lines on the left are sort of close to the edge and almost cut off. Some people don't like power lines in landscape images, but they can be interesting and can be used as a compositional element. If say, the lines are a deliberate part of the image, perhaps catching the light and curving through the image making a leading line,...

Hasan Dag, Cappadocia

This bucolic little scene in rural Turkey caught my eye as we drove past. The more famous landscapes of Cappadocia are formed from volcanic tuff ejected from three volcanoes that dominate the area. Hasan Dag reaches 3268m. I guess the soils are very fertile too

Gorgeous colours in this one, reminding me of some exotic velvet fabric embroidered with gold.

A classic, beautifully acomplished. The rim lighting is what catches my eye.
From what I've heard, you were lucky to find only 10 others there! Scenes like this are something that I suppose I do like to see, but I probably get more pleasure from discovering less well known places for myself.
It seems like so much is under attack right now, in the US and everywhere else. Terrifying.