Wednesday Landscapes, 2 August 2017

You are invited to upload one or more of your landscape photos and, if you’d like, to accompany your image with some commentary: challenges you faced in making the image? your intent for the image? settings? post-processing decisions? why you did what you did? the place and time? or an aspect you’d like feedback on? And please feel free to ask questions of others who have posted images or to join the discussion. If you don’t feel like using words, that’s OK too—unaccompanied images (or unaccompanied words, for that matter) are also very much welcomed. As for the technicalities, the usual forum guidelines apply: files < 1 MB; image size <1000 px maximum dimension.

 

 

This week I’m in the uncomfortable position of being in limbo between two computers, with the editing software on the conscious one and the photos on the (temporarily) indisposed one (and not to worry: everything is backed up). I did manage to find one jpg that I’d saved before the, um, indisposure, but I don’t have access to the processing info, so it’ll have to stand on its own. This is from the northern California Coast Range in late May—I wish there were a “camera” for scents, because the visuals here were only a small part of the experience.

 

A view of Rondvatnet lake and the mountain station in Norway's Rondane national park. To reach this point it's already a 10 km hike from the parking lot. From here trails go into Rondane area.

I very rarely convert digital images to B&W as I just don't 'see' in B&W. When I shot film I only shot B&W at a client's request.

That being said, I decided B&W might help to enhance this scene by evoking a sense of mystery and foreboding to a very well known and photographed landscape. And, after all, colour film was still 5,000 years off when this structure was begun.

I used a D700 and a 28-70mm zoom set at 40mm.

 

I call it, 'Stonehenge'.

Pastoral Scene - Cumbria UK

 

Pastoral scene in Cumbria by David Stephens, on Flickr

Haven't done much landscape stuff this summer. This Spring there was high water on the Mississippi banks which borders the park where I mountain bike with the dog every day. Here's a shot of a beach which is usually not under water.

Bar Harbor, Maine

Crowfoot Mountain and Glacier; Reflection in Bow Lake