Wednesday Landscapes, 15 May 2019

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.

 

I went back to the coastal dunes on this cloudy Monday morning. I usually don’t think of heading to the dunes on overcast days because the uniform light saps a lot of drama from the sand-scape. I’m glad I did, though—the lack of contrast made me pay more attention to other kinds of details. It was a good reminder to keep an open mind for what a site has to offer and to not be constrained by my expectations.

This is Western Brook Pond in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is a 'perched' fiord, As I understand it, the glaciers did not scrape all the way down to sea level or below, hence it is 'perched'. I took this from a moving boat. Although it is only an 11MP image (D80, 2008), I had it printed on canvas 4'x3'. Of all the images I have printed, this one reacts with changing light the most. At times, the birches near the shoreline jump out. At others, the highlights on the slopes stand out.

 

 

These are the Tablelands also in Gros Morne National Park. They are made of the rock peridotite which is the type of rock found at the top of earth's mantle below the crust. It is nutrient poor and nutrient imbalanced so vegetation does not grow well on it; but, it has the ability to react with carbon dioxide and convert it to carbonates thus removing the CO2 from the air. This peridotite is in a protected national park, but deposits elsewhere on the globe might one day be used to help with carbon capture.

The soft flat light in the dunes is favorable to caryx and blooming beach peas. Many of the flowers have an almost magic glow in overcast conditions.

 

Cloudy, rainy days in Zion Canyon can be either dramatic, or flat, or both, depending on conditions. As counterpoint to my previously posted mages of ethereal waterfalls in the canyon, here's a vignette from a side canyon above the rim:

Possible posted before . . . sadly, no dunes

Tuesday morning (May 14) field of wildflowers.

 

Nikon F, 28 - 85mm Nikkor, Delta100, Rodinal semistand.

 

Sand dune details just after sunrise. With low angle lighting, there were many small shadows and highlights to play with.

Edited May 16, 2019 by Glenn McCreery

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Looks like a theme park. Am I right?

 

Looks like a theme park. Am I right?

The courtyard below Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Looks like a theme park. Am I right?

 

No, it's a lake area near Roosevelt, AZ, accessible by a long, winding dirt road called Apache Trail.

William, thanks for responding, even though the question you quoted was intended for mpressionz.

Dreamy Sunrise, on a foggy Sunday morning with the Leica M, Type 262 and 21mm f3.4 Super Elmar.

 

William, thanks for responding, even though the question you quoted was intended for mpressionz.

Welcomes... btw, mpressionz and William are one in the same.