Challenge: Your finest pictures only: "The Beautiful Lake in Landscape" collection"

[Phil Marion]

laguna Colorado - Bolivia

Laguna Colorada covers about 60 sq. kilometers (37 sq. miles), with a depth of about 50 cm (20 inches). With a high salt content, the fiery red color of Laguna Colorado is derived from algae and plankton that thrive in the mineral-rich water of sodium, magnesium, borax and gypsum.


Quite popular with intrepid tourists and large flocks of flamingos.

 

[Rachel Foster]

My entry

Rachel Foster: Lake at Interlochen Camp, Michigan ISO 250, f/5.0, 1/1000. ​

This is the lake at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. I posted some shots of the same lake earlier this year, but I think this is the best of the lot.

 

[Rachel Foster]

Asher thanks for the info on centering. It does make a big difference.​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher thanks for the info on centering. It does make a big difference.​

Well,

Where we show our best pictures, we'd like to think they are valued as in a fine gallery. There folk stop and consider not read on like scanning the newspaper. Pictures left at the side or cramped with text are not offered with respect for the living value of artwork. Every creature needs space and a milieu. Art too. As you discovered, it's so simple, to present your work well.

The 5th icon in the text box does it and then a title underneath and your name tells the world this is your picture and you own it. Hopefully, some very rich company, with pockets so deep that light would not return, will steal it.

Asher

 

[StuartRae]

Let's go back to November 1988. Here's Derwentwater on a cold Autumn evening, with the last boatman returning to the shore.
Taken with a cheap SLR that I didn't mind dropping (Cosina I think) and a quite nice f/2 50mm lens.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[Asher Kelman]

Stuart,

See what good just a touch of human form can do to a grand landscape. Perfect. The tiny figures transform a beautiful scene with layered hills to a paradise respite from civilization.

Asher

BTW, is it angled?

 

[JimCollum]

Entropy, Salton Sea​

(i'm not sure if an inland sea will qualify. it *looks* like a lake

jim

 

[Alain Briot]

Luminous Canyon

Photographed at noon with a 50mm 1.8 Canon​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Entropy, Salton Sea​

(i'm not sure if an inland sea will qualify. it *looks* like a lake

jim

Jim,

Was that built on stilts or it was flooded later. What sort of community or business was there there? The feeling is that people might perhaps still struggle to survive in that hard place. That tire, however, shows that they gave up! Now we relook and ask if the white is really snow and then perhaps actual salt which is eating the aging building. Good job. Is this MF or a scan back?

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Luminous Canyon

Photographed at noon with a 50mm 1.8 Canon​

Alain,

This is a tiny window to a very beautiful scene with all the colors one would want. The sienna rock face, sharp, hard and sold, on the left is the lateral base from which we approach this very soft and gentle tree decorated spot of nature cut by a reflecting channel of apparently still water I'd love to see it larger.

Asher

 

[Alain Briot]

Alain,

This is a tiny window to a very beautiful scene with all the colors one would want. The sienna rock face, sharp, hard and sold, on the left is the lateral base from which we approach this very soft and gentle tree decorated spot of nature cut by a reflecting channel of apparently still water I'd love to see it larger.

Asher

Thank you Asher.

Here's another one:

Sabrina Lake​

I love reflections!

 

[StuartRae]

Luminous Canyon​

Alain,

That's not a photograph, it's art. Thanks for posting.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[StuartRae]

Stuart,

See what good just a touch of human form can do to a grand landscape. Perfect. The tiny figures transform a beautiful scene with layered hills to a paradise respite from civilization.

Asher

BTW, is it angled?

Asher, thanks for the comments.
Yes, it's sloping a bit, although the head of the lake (perpendicular to the viewpoint) is on the RHS so probably not as much as it looks.
I've noticed a droop on the LHS of most of my recent shots, so in a way it's comforting to see that I had the same problem 20 yrs ago.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[JimCollum]

Jim,

Was that built on stilts or it was flooded later. What sort of community or business was there there? The feeling is that people might perhaps still struggle to survive in that hard place. That tire, however, shows that they gave up! Now we relook and ask if the white is really snow and then perhaps actual salt which is eating the aging building. Good job. Is this MF or a scan back?

Asher

It was flooded later. Google Salton Sea and Bombay Beach. There are still people living around the sea, and life is still difficult. The white is salt.. Salton is an inland sea, south of Palm Springs .. one of the largest on the continent. Richard Misrach has done the first/last word in a series on Salton Sea, and the flooding that took place.

(this was stitched 1dsMk2 )

jim

 

[Alain Briot]

Alain,

That's not a photograph, it's art. Thanks for posting.

Regards,

Stuart

Thank you Stuart. I agree ;-)

 

[Rachel Foster]

Challenge: Your finest pictures only: "The Beautiful Lake in Landscape" collection"

One thing I've struggled with is the ability to evaluate my own images. I go to one extreme or the other: I am too critical or miss glaring deficiencies. So, the purpose of this post is to find out what others think and compare it to my own evaluation.

ISO 2000, f/6.3, 1/1600

Rachel Ann Foster: Lake Michigan in November at Sunrise​

 

[Rachel Foster]

I think I would have to change my entry to this theme challenge to this one, posted in another thread.: post copied here, above AK

 

[Steve Davis]

Here's Lake Powell from a few years ago

 

[Asher Kelman]

Here's Lake Powell from a few years ago

Steve,

Against the background of the mountains, the clouds are so interesting and well drawn. The cloud on the right is simply spectacular. I wonder how to actually print this, since on the left, there's a cloud only partially in the field of view. what do you do with such a cloud. Edit it so it appears complete, ignore or remove it?

Asher

 

[Steve Davis]

Asher,

Thanks. I think the balance of the image would be thrown by removing the incomplete cloud. I have chosen to ignore the cloud...and not print the image. At least for now.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher,

Thanks. I think the balance of the image would be thrown by removing the incomplete cloud. I have chosen to ignore the cloud...and not print the image. At least for now.

I love the cloud on the right! Is there any picture you have of the left side that might be used to extend this image by stitching.

Asher

In any case, clouds like the one you have should go to a cloud library as this might make an otherwise naked picture complete!

 

[Steve Davis]

Asher, you've inspired me to some day before too long come back and revisit this image. Thank you. Here is one more I would like to contribute to the theme. It was taken at sunset at Mono Lake. I've always liked the serenity of this image. Hopefully others will too.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher, you've inspired me to some day before too long come back and revisit this image. Thank you.

Many of the greatest artists worked on one motif for a long time and revisited repeatedly. So this should be a normal pattern for us and should instruct our approach to art, instead of one-off snaps of the moment. Then we manage to refine out concept and get to a higher level of expression, both in the individual pictures we show but also in the body of work on that theme that we build in the process. IOW, we allow people to view our minds work from the different viewing ports from which each image reveal the workings of our imagination.

For the "cloud" image, above, I cannot believe you didn't take pictures to the left with such a panorama! Tell me you have more of that scene!! My eyes are drawn to the left!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher, you've inspired me to some day before too long come back and revisit this image. Thank you.

Many of the greatest artists worked on one motif for a long time and revisited repeatedly. So this should be a normal pattern for us and should instruct our approach to art, instead of one-off snaps of the moment. Then we manage to refine out concept and get to a higher level of expression, both in the individual pictures we show but also in the body of work on that theme that we build in the process. IOW, we allow people to view our minds work from the different viewing ports from which each image reveal the workings of our imagination.

For the "cloud" image, above, I cannot believe you didn't take pictures to the left with such a panorama! Tell me you have more of that scene!! My eyes are drawn to the left!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Here is one more I would like to contribute to the theme. It was taken at sunset at Mono Lake. I've always liked the serenity of this image. Hopefully others will too.

Steve, this is a totally different mood! I find it restful too. The wrestling trees are very strong components and maybe could be considered as not mere additions to the scene but important and therefore would need to be shown fully.

Alternatively, a series of images where you push interest to the left of the frame is an interestingly aggressive "antiheroic, way of designing pictures. I see the same effect in the cloud being cut off on the left and the trees too. Look at your pictures in general and see it that's a common way you compose. I'm not saying it's wrong, as it may be a way your brain sees things. I'm fascinated by the possibility.

Asher

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

...For the "cloud" image, above, I cannot believe you didn't take pictures to the left with such a panorama! Tell me you have more of that scene!! My eyes are drawn to the left!

Hi Asher,

After reading this plea of yours, I've dived into my DAM to see what pictures I had taken during my very brief encounter with Lake Powell. Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of them and only a few ones are decent enough to show. Here is one showing the Powell Dam in the foreground.

Powell Dam

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Cheers,

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Asher,

After reading this plea of yours, I've dived into my DAM to see what pictures I had taken during my very brief encounter with Lake Powell. Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of them and only a few ones are decent enough to show. Here is one showing the Powell Dam in the foreground.

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Cem,

This is an amazing photograph of an awesome landscape and the utterly enormous building projects that damming can be. The ant-sized people on the roadway give us a reference as to how vast both the landscape and the dam is. That tree on the left, balances the entire image and anchors it fow us or we'd be lost!

Asher

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Asher, Bart,

I have moved the pano stitching related posts to this new thread.

Cheers,

 

[Phil Marion]

flamingos in red Laguna Colorada, Bolivia

Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia. The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts nicely with the reddish color of its waters, which is caused by red sediments and pigmentation of some algae. James's Flamingos abound in the area. Also it is possible to find Andean and Chilean flamingos, but in a minor quantity.

 

[janet Smith]

The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts nicely with the reddish color of its waters, which is caused by red sediments and pigmentation of some algae

Fantastic image Phil, almost surreal.....