Leslie Reid Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 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 don’t seem to be able to get off the topic of creeks meeting oceans, but at least this is a different creek. Same ocean. There are only two kinds of waves here, but one is the strangest I’ve ever seen (with the exception of the Fukushima tsunami, but that’s a different story with no photos). This is about an hour after the lowest point of a minus tide, so the creek is flowing across a relatively steep portion of the beach front. For about a 20-minute period, when the backwash of a particularly high wave would add to the flow from the creek, flow would go supercritical at the thalweg of the creek and form a train of about a dozen rooster-tails, each up to about 2 ft high and 6 inches wide, lasting for maybe 20 seconds. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. and a different view: I suppose this falls into the category of "Documentary Landscape Photography." 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis triguez Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 previously posted in another forum Panasonic Lumix G 45-200 (136) on Olympus E-PL5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Laura Weishaupt Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Fingers of incoming fog make Goat Island (aka Bird Island) look like it's smoldering from a natural catastrophe. The feature has quite a personality. I've been told by local naturalists that puffins nest on the other side. I'm still looking for them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allancobb Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Dawes Glacier at the terminus of the Endicott Arm, Alaska 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 thalweg of the creek Thanks for providing a new word/phrase of the day. Gotta admit, I had to look that one up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Goleta Slough Outlet 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Bad Lands - Yellow Hills 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Waning moon at dawn. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmurray Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 The trees along the Mississippi here in St. Paul, MN all have exposed roots, due to the high water conditions that occur when there is a lot of rain or snow melt. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Eckman Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Thanks for providing a new word/phrase of the day. Gotta admit, I had to look that one up. Me, too. Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Industrial landscape. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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michaellinder Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 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 don’t seem to be able to get off the topic of creeks meeting oceans, but at least this is a different creek. Same ocean. There are only two kinds of waves here, but one is the strangest I’ve ever seen (with the exception of the Fukushima tsunami, but that’s a different story with no photos). This is about an hour after the lowest point of a minus tide, so the creek is flowing across a relatively steep portion of the beach front. For about a 20-minute period, when the backwash of a particularly high wave would add to the flow from the creek, flow would go supercritical at the thalweg of the creek and form a train of about a dozen rooster-tails, each up to about 2 ft high and 6 inches wide, lasting for maybe 20 seconds. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. [ATTACH=full]1437978[/ATTACH] and a different view: [ATTACH=full]1437977[/ATTACH] I suppose this falls into the category of "Documentary Landscape Photography." Leslie, first I commend you on the OP images. Any photog worry her/his salt would be honored to have them in a portfolio. - - Secondly, by any chance would you know how far inland the tsunami's water reached? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Dawes Glacier at the terminus of the Endicott Arm, Alaska Alan, we seem to be crossing paths again. On my first trip to Alaska, I had someone take me through the Tracy Arm to the Sawyer Glacier. Your image is spectacular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 would you know how far inland the tsunami's water reached? I only have a general sense of it for my part of the coast. Here it showed up as a repeated oscillation between the highest tide I'd ever seen to one of the lowest I've seen, all happening over about a 20-minute period. The cycle repeated itself over several hours. I think the maximum "high tide" part of the oscillation was maybe 3 or 4 feet higher than ordinary high tides. I'd evacuated inland since we didn't know what to expect, but I had a great view of the oscillation because surfers had installed a web-cam above a local surfing beach a few years earlier. I'm happy to say that no one had taken the opportunity to surf that day, and there was no significant damage in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allancobb Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Alan, we seem to be crossing paths again. On my first trip to Alaska, I had someone take me through the Tracy Arm to the Sawyer Glacier. Your image is spectacular. Many thanks Michael; I had two opportunities to visit the Tracy Arm (including this last cruise) and was denied each time, the first due to a passenger medical emergency, the second due to fog. Maybe the third time will be a charm! Where are you going next? Maybe we'll cross at the same time. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Many thanks Michael; I had two opportunities to visit the Tracy Arm (including this last cruise) and was denied each time, the first due to a passenger medical emergency, the second due to fog. Maybe the third time will be a charm! Where are you going next? Maybe we'll cross at the same time. :) Sadly, our next cruise doesn't go to Alaska, but rather to the western Caribbean. I will be shooting, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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