+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #1, 2025 02.07

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

It feels as though it is trying to include too much and there's a conflict between vertical and horizontal lines. The glimpse of sea to the right and the curve of the bay get our attention but they are truncated.
The mountain peak, three tall trees and the foreground rock have the makings of a line of their own however the foreground red flowers get a bit lost.
I don't know whether it would work but if I ha a tripod handy, i think I'd have tried a portrait format with the peak, tall trees, rock and foreground red flowers and I'd have tried to take it much lower to the ground and closer to the flowers. It would need all the dof available.

Agreed. Or maybe to the left to give a little more space for larger far tree on the left.

G'Day Streamdream.
Check my comment to Fireplace about the weather and his shots. Ditto for yours. It will be 43C today where I live.
The blue in your shots isn't sky blue, it's the hue of ice. Most fitting.
Three possibly has more to each side and out of focus than it needs. Perhaps trim a bit from the right and a little from the left. The ice crystal details are lovely. Do you have software that would let you remove the wires? I feel they get in the way when looking at the crystals. Some software makes wire removal easy.
I'm another looking forward to seeing the same area in different seasons.

I'm largely echoing Fireplace here. The "business" isn't a problem but sometimes nature needs a wee bit of assistance. Your foreground frames the trunk reflection and adds a line to the far bank. The red stems are messing up the reflection though.
While thre is plenty going on, red stems apart, it all balances up nicely. The diagonal twig and the small falls link foreground and the far side and background lines. The foreground left and far right curves work together to give a predominantly circular composition. The blues of the stream/reflection complement the brown tones. A trout fishing spot?

The scene and sharpness are excellent, but it's washed out from the scattering of blue light. I think it would have been a lot nicer had a polarizer been used.

I like the scene a lot, but the photo is oversharpened (to my eyes). However, usually you want a lot of sharpening for BW conversions, so I'm thinking that it may have simply been how the photo was sharpened as opposed to the sharpening itself. When I downsample photos for web display, sometimes I have to play (a lot) with the sharpness settings to get the downsampled photo looking sharp, but not overly sharp. But, again, this is all a function of personal taste, and my aesthetics may well be different from yours and others.

Thanks GB 😊
as to the scattered blue light,…
We know it is a natural phenomena that light will scatter from particles in the air creating a bluish haze. That haze and the blue colour is not necessarily a bad thing. Painters will even add it deliberately to a painting to add the feeling and illusion of depth on their canvas, the further away an object is, the more blue and hazy it will be painted.
If it is excessive and distracting in a particular image I will usually reduce it to a certain extent, but usually not completely. It is a perhaps a personal preference for me that distant objects, especially in winter with some ice and snow, will have a slight bluish tinge in the image, that’s how they look for me in reality.
Sometimes, I’ll even embrace the effect and show mountain ranges with multiple layers that slowly fade away to blue into the distance. like in this one

Wonderful captures of a lovely place

This was not a conversion. It was taken with my Q2M. Since there is not interpolation process, the Q2M images will by sharper than say my Z8 converted images although they have the same number of "pixels." i saw an interest comparison between the 100 MP GFX converted to B&W and the Q2M - that concluded although the Q2M has approximately 1/2 the pixel count - it has the same B&W resolution. It produces a very sharp image right out of the camera. I processed this image for printing which means additional sharping. If I didn't back off for exporting the jpeg, it might appear overly sharpened. However, in general I don't sharpen the Q2M images much.

Down to the left of the flat area is the dam where I first found my fascination fixation with dragonflies. To the left of the distant rise is a large grazing area where I managed my first bird captures after moving to m43 with a 100-400mm. It was a good place but I did tire of walking around the same area every day.