+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #3, 2025.02.21

Crape myrtle and roses

This is certainly one of the shots where a long thin panorama format works well.
Everything here is so red, Iron ore must be everywhere, and then taken at sunset as well!
The contrast to the blue sky with that scattering of little clouds make the image nice and colourful.

Magnificent shot, nice warm light casting rays. I like that sky is not burnt out but retains its colour.

Both versions seem to work well but i like coloured version better as it seems to separate different parts better. Only change I would made is tad more sky to balance image better.

I was not enjoying snowshoes much but it was neccessary evil to boldly go where man has not gone before 😀 Normally there would be much more snow but even with knee deep snow it was hard to move without snowshoes. And they were lot of help on steep tracks, i saw signs that some went down on their bums as it was too slippery and steep to walk with normal shoes.
IIRC last shot was taken with camera leveled to show actual terrain pattern, it's easy to tilt camera and lose all perception of steepness. But this resulted with slightly unbalanced image, normally I'd framed it bit upward.

The Long and Winding Road

Alan's shot from La Gomera last week riminded me of some of the spectacular landscapes of the Canaries. This is the Arenas Nigras area of Tenerife, looking across to La Gomera in the distance.

Excellent shot. Yes, of course it's all about the light. I was so entranced by the sun rays that at first I didn't notice the stream. Scope for a more tightly framed composition too?

Lots going on here with the reflections and the shadows.The foreground plants add another layer of interest, but I find the diagonal shoreline a bit if a distraction. But I imagine it would be difficult to exclude it.

I like a good ruin 😉
I feel this one would be better without the foreground fence and perhaps a lower viewpoint with the flowers 'reclaiming' the landscape.

This is one where I prefer the B&W, not so much because of the muddy coloured rocks, but I find the mass of green a bit too much. Maybe that's just me! The white of the flowers then sets off the white clouds nicely.

Nice veil of catkins bearing their raindrops. I agree with Fireplace about the brown grass - maybe crop a touch or desaturate the orange.

A photographer's playground! These are the ones that caught my eye.

Very effective use of the pano format. At first glance I got the sense that the train was moving!

What a beautiful garden! Love the colours!
It’s a cold and overcast day here so I can particularly appreciate and enjoy the warmth and the bright light in this spring/summer shot 😊

I'm not sure if I can really offer an edit that works better with this image?
I think I would have probably taken the shot differently so that it was less busy to start with, but that is just a personal preference. I often like to get the feeling that there is lots of light in the shot and space enough for the subjects to “breathe”
Here is an edit with a crop from some off the bottom and also some from left side. The cropped grass then looked a bit too dark so I added a bit of fill light and the now smaller, grassy strip works as a slightly less busy and brighter frame for the lake.
We have seen from the weekly “edit me an image” challenge that we get multiple valid versions of the same image from different people.
This is just one of those 😉

Good wide angle shot!
Lovley detail in the green trees, and nice texture in those fluffy clouds. The rocks and soil are really red here.
I’m definitely a fan of curvy roads in landscape shots! You can see that road snaking into the distance here. Seems that road started off, heading straight towards the dark and rather foreboding mountain on the left and then decided at the last moment not to go there and instead did a sharp turn to the right 😉

Just curious, did you use a polarizing filter with this shot?

Perhaps lightening the grasses would help more? This seems darker than the original.
Edit... see Fireplace's version above.