Wednesday Landscapes, 6 December 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.

 

Another from last winter, this one from Redwood National Park. It had rained the night before, so the alder branchlets were loaded with water drops that sparkled when the sun hit them. There’s very little post-processing on this one: increased whites, reduced highlights, and an adjustment brush to increase clarity in the mid-ground trees.

 

Heavenly Lake of TianShan, China - Elevation: 6,257'.

This abandoned and broke railroad bridge over the White River used to connect to Eureka Springs on the Eureka Springs and Northern Arkansas Line. Beaver AR Railroad Bridge - GS8RG > GeoSpy

I took this photo this morning just after sunrise, following my usual short morning hike with the dog. I was attracted to the gradient in lighting in the sky ranging from sunlit trees to a dark blue background framing the moon, and a layer of fog behind the row of trees. I converted the original image to black and white, with the main adjustments being noise reduction in blank regions of the sky, levels, and dodging light regions on the moon.

Since this forum doesn't appear to prohibit posting more than one image, I'm going to give it a go. I took this photo along the Saint John River in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - near the "reversing rapids."

Pictured Rock National Lakeshore Edited December 8, 2017 by jerry_wilson|3

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