Has anyone done studies on how the circumstances where we live influence how we respond to images? Where I live, today's temperature is closing in on 39C and tomorrow we are promised 42C.
Fireplace 33, I'll turn these into screensavers and just look at them for a couple of days and I'll feel better.
Feb. 7, 2025
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I'll bet you didn't take this one with your eyes closed.
Combining the gold and white pointy prows and the gold and white point peaks was inspired (pun alert.) Then there's the fine detail of the camera position. A step to the left or right and the points wouldn't have fitted between the peaks in the reflection. Throw in the arrowhead of the rockface/reflection on the left.
minniev, it's as perfect a landscape as I can imagine and a very high bar for the new landscape thread. -
It isn't a dramatic, eyecatching image but as a landscape, it does something especially well. Bryan has caught an Australian landscape. Couldn't be anywhere else. The blue,green, grey of the foliage, the shape of the tree trunks, the colour of the dirt road and to top it off, I think the pup is an Australian Blueheeler.
I've driven multi 1000s of km along roads like this and it resonates with me. It vibrates with me too. -
As minniev says, it's all three and I agree with the "lacework" observation.
Having looked at this large, I think it's a colour image which makes the mono effect even more noteworthy.
Arvo, did you do any desaturating here? It doesn't matter for the image itself but rather I'm curious about what it says about the light where you are at this time of the year. -
-Tranquility but with a burst of fire.
It has the rock. water, repeating round shapes that can be expected in Japanese gardens. Are we in japan? -
No, this is in Georgia, USA. It is a Japanese garden in Gibbs Gardens which has 16 different gardens on about 300 acres. It has something for every time of the year. We have an annual pass and go there several times a year.
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Yeah I just signed up. Givin' it the ol' college try, so to speak. :) Thank you for your lovely comment. I got really lucky that day. I live very close to that little walk and it's always pretty, but that day it was absolutely spectacular. The interplay of frost and fog and sunlight frequently took my breath away.
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Welcome. Can't wait to see pictures of that walk in spring/summer/autumn for comparision
Tim
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The pastel blue in these is gorgeous. The middle shot is my pick, nice foreground middle and background. I wonder if it would be even better if you swung around very slightly to the right? (And of course demolished the phone mast 😉)
Is that mistletoe in the trees?
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These are lovely pics and prove you don't need to spend thousands on cameras & lenses.
Welcome to the forum and I hope you show many more.
Alan
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I wish it was that easy. Sadly I will be moving away from that place very soon, so I won't be able to provide too many comparison shots :(.Only the ones I'd already taken previously.
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Like I said somewhere, this is full color image.
I probably desaturated (and dimmed) grasses on foreground a little - they were a bit more orangeish and grabbed too much attention - but generally it was gray and wet weather, exactly like it is seen on image :) -
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These are lovely pics and prove you don't need to spend thousands on cameras & lenses.
Welcome to the forum and I hope you show many more.
Alan
[/quote]I do sometimes wish the resolution was higher. The moment you don't look at them on a phone screen, you start seeing the issues. But yes, I think there are a great many things that phones have to offer nowadays and it has more to do with being willing to experiment and learning what the strengths and weaknesses of your instrument are and using them to your advantage :)
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Yes! It is mistletoe. The trees are absolutely infested with it. I think the mistletoe balls might be my favourite part of my first picture. :D. And thank you for your kind words. I do disagree with you on the phone mast. I don't need them all the time of course, but I do enjoy some ugly man-made structures contrasting with the beauty of the natural world every once in a while. (But that's probably just me 😂) In this case I think it adds a bit of visual interest and balances nicely with the big dark tree on the far left.
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I think these are really quite lovely. The way the mountains look like they were stamped out of the sky vs the soft blanket of floor clouds (fog) is delightful. Love the many layers, giving it very strong sense of depth.
You must have felt very fortunate viewing all that fog from up top. It's been similarly foggy where I am from recently, so it must have been amazing viewing all that drearyness from a birds eye view.
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As you mentioned it is quite a busy shot. I think I might have tried to find a way to get rid of some of those long red twigs in the mid foreground. I've been known to push such twigs to one side with my Nordic walking sticks ;-)
I like the rest of the shot with the reflections of the tree trunks and the ripples on the water's surface. The curves of the gently sloping river bank are nice too. -
Welcome to the Weekly Landscape Thread.
These two really show the beauty of that frosty morning. The second one is my favourite. Great pastel blue colours. Lots of layers here give depth to the image. The mist in the air in the midground is full of bright sunlight and it blends nicely back into the far misty mountains. The white frost on the branches is also lit up with that sunshine and they have a nice contrast to the much darker tree trunks. In the foreground there are two more layers with the river itself rushing by with splashing blue/white water and finally the last layer is given by the smooth looking rocks on this side of the river. Very nice! -
Fire and ice!
A great shot with impressive warm and cold elements. Winter is a wonderful time of the year!
The framing of the setting sun with the branches curving over it is good
