Wednesday Landscapes, 6 November 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 much appreciate the feedback on my image from last week--catching a glimpse of one's photos through other photographers' eyes is extremely helpful, and especially when opinions differ. That started me thinking--would any of you be interested in an occasional landscape critique thread? It could be modeled after an artists' critique circle that I participate in: anyone interested would post an image to the thread, and once they're all posted, each participant would provide comments or discussion on each of the other photos posted. Each thread would be limited to about ten photos to keep it manageable. Any interest? Or other suggestions for how to make something like that work?

 

Now, 'tis the season of low sun angles, which can give even mid-day photography the potential for interesting lighting. There's not a lot of intrinsic interest in the subject here, other than the lighting and the kind of abstract composition it creates--I've passed by this spot on the trail probably 50 times without ever noticing this little ridge. Then a week ago Monday at about 11 am, the view stopped me in my tracks.

 

Sunday night's sunset in Teton Valley, Idaho

I shot this with my first digital camera, a Panasonic with a Leica lens. It had amazing zoom capabilities but often produced, as in this image. I shot it at Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park.

Devil's Gap at Lake Minnewanka, Banff National Park, Alberta

Went four wheeling this Saturday and about a mile down a almost dry creak bead came across this waterfall ledge. About a 9' drop with these two holes just before the edge. I hope I can find the spot next spring when the creak will have more water.

One more from the trip Saturday. This is a view of the White River in north central Arkansas.

Shot a few years ago about this time of year in the woods I biked through almost every day with our border collie Lily.

Black bullock grazing the Yorkshire landscape.

Lighthouse of Nallikari, Oulu, Finland

 

While this doesn't have the "wide open spaces" of many landscape photos, I liked the angle at which I could frame the tree against the sky. The home sits on a raised lot along a suburban road in Clarkston, MI. The sun had moved to the west past noon, but I had to hurry to keep it over my right shoulder.

 

Edited November 9, 2019 by dennisbrown