Wednesday Landscapes, 9 May 2018

[Leslie Reid]

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.

 

Many thanks to participants in the challenge last week (and, of course, to the rest of you, too)--I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the visions your imaginations produced!

 

For this week, I dug up a strange one from last year. This is what the reflection of the rising sun looks like through a haze of wildfire smoke. The smoke was thick enough that the change in light level as the sun came up was hardly noticeable, and the color was unworldly.

 

[Glenn McCreery]

 

Sunset, Desolation Sound, British Columbia, last July. Wildfire smoke was building, and the next morning the small nearby islands were no longer visible from our camp. We were on a sea kayaking trip and decided to paddle out before the air quality became even worse.

[JDMvW]

[michaellinder]

After diligently searching, I confirmed the absence of a decent image matching this week's theme. So here goes, anyway.

[andy_szeto]

Heavenly Lake, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

[Dieter Schaefer]

After "dehazing" the image, the challenge is to get the colors "right" - if one doesn't know what they actually were to begin with.

[Deborah Vallette]

[Greg M]

This past Saturday morning..

 

[michaellinder]

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Debby, where did you shoot this?

[luis triguez]

[brunojapp]

This landscape reminded me of a less hectic time before the internet. Maybe not a better time in every way, but different.

 

This is only about 1/3 of the original picture, but sometimes it takes really hard cropping to bring out what I felt at that time at that place. Less is more.

 

Edited May 12, 2018 by brunojapp

[Sandy Vongries]

[Gus Lazzari]

8-Element Leitz Summicron 35mm f/2 shot at f5.6 mounted to a Leica M9

Post processed via Picasa - Click on the image to see the detail of the people (i.e. Mother & child at right edge).

 

 

Viewing Bridge in Yosemite...

[stuart_pratt]

On my morning dog walk. Leicaflex SL, 50mm, FP4.

 

BB code copied from Flickr, should post as image, posts as a link on my iPad?

Edited May 20, 2018 by stuart_pratt

[stuart_pratt]

On the way to Sussex Polo by CDSnapper, on Flickr

 

Ahh, that's better