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

[janet Smith]

Crummock Water, Lake District, England
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[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

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Hi Jan,

Very nice. I like how you've decentered the 'floating' island in the surrounding symmetry.

Thanks for sharing. I'm envious of the surrounding when I compare it to the limited possibilities of my home country.

Cheers,
Bart

 

[janet Smith]

Very nice. I like how you've decentered the 'floating' island in the surrounding symmetry.

Thanks for sharing. I'm envious of the surrounding when I compare it to the limited possibilities of my home country.

Hi Bart

Thank you! The Lake district is a lovely area of the UK not as mountainous as Scotland but beautiful, greener and less rugged than the northern highlands of Scotland. My home county Yorkshire is very green with rolling hills lots of rivers and waterfalls and pretty villages - try and visit when you can....

 

[Phil Marion]

Very nice. I like how you've decentered the 'floating' island in the surrounding symmetry.Bart

I agree. like how the branches are sharp in both the reflected and non-reflected portion.

Thanks for sharing. I'm envious of the surrounding when I compare it to the limited possibilities of my home country.Bart

No sympathy over here!! I'd hate to be within 30 minutes of colorful flowers, historic buildings and windmills [sarcasm]. Sure I live in large Canada but it is a 4 day drive to the Rockies or 2 day drive to the Atlantic....mind you I am 5 hours from a moose, 1 hour from Niagara Falls but 12 hours from Manhattan. How far are the Alps from Holland? The fjords of Norway can be done in a long weekend, no?

 

[Phil Marion]

Fantastic image Phil, almost surreal.....

Surreal for reasons you may not realise. At the time it didn't feel real because one is battling the effects of altitude. One is over 4000 metres above sea level. The landscape is completely alien, one is in the middle of nowhere far from any village and the whole time your brain feels it is swollen to double it's size.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Hi Phil,

...I'm envious of the surrounding when I compare it to the limited possibilities of my home country.

...No sympathy over here!! I'd hate to be within 30 minutes of colorful flowers, historic buildings and windmills [sarcasm]. Sure I live in large Canada but it is a 4 day drive to the Rockies or 2 day drive to the Atlantic....mind you I am 5 hours from a moose, 1 hour from Niagara Falls but 12 hours from Manhattan. How far are the Alps from Holland? The fjords of Norway can be done in a long weekend, no?

Nicely put and it certainly offers an interesting perspective for Bart and me. In our photography related chats, one of our pet peeves is the fact that it is rather difficult to take great landscape pictures in the Netherlands due to a multitude of reasons:
1) It is way too crowded. Almost nowhere a real, untouched piece of landscape to be found.
2) It is way too flat. One has to travel a couple of hours to find some moderate hills (with a whopping altitude of more than 50 meters above sea level!). So shooting traditional landscapes with a foreground, middle piece and the background built up in layers is next to impossible.
3) We have the worst case of light pollution which makes twilight/dark photography difficult. Certainly no stars or the milky way to be seen.
4) A few days during the year, the light will be great but mostly it is overcast and/or boring.

Having said these, we realize that it still is possible to take good landscape pictures if one perseveres. As in almost anything else ;-).

Re. the Alps, one can get there within 10-12 hours of driving. Fjords of Norway would be doable in a long weekend if one flies to Oslo and then travels from there by boat/car.

Philosophically speaking, we all live in places which are one way or another interesting to those who do not live there (the greener grass thing). LOL. Thanks for reminding us.

Cheers,

 

[Phil Marion]

^^^^Beautiful lake Leonardo^^^
Did you make it in to Bolivia's southwest. Here is Laguna Colorado.
Wikipedia: "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."

 

[ErikJonas]

Hi Roy.....

Roy that Majestic Mount Cephren shot above is perfect!!...How many times to that location did it take you to get the shot?I know at times it can take a number of trips for light and other factors to be just right...Above...I ment page 3 i think its on in this long thread.

 

[Maris Rusis]

High Tide, Lake Weyba​

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.4cm X 24.5cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f8 lens and a #25 red filter.

 

[Tracy Lebenzon]

^I like this one. The composition is a good fit with b&w.

 

[Jim Dockery]

I like that Mount Cephren shot too. One of my favorite areas for both climbing and photography.

This one is closer to home (about a mile from my house), Lake Stevens, WA:

 

[Michael Nagel]

Trübsee

Switzerland some time ago, it was a mixture of clouds and sun:

Auf dem Trübsee​

Best regards,
Michael

 

[Michael Nagel]

Panorama from the same lake:

Trübseepanorama​

Opposite to the first view posted:

Trübseespiegelung​

Best regards,
Michael

 

[Michael Nagel]

Schliersee

Different lake this time - the point of view can be reached on a small hike - 4-5km and 300m of ascent:

Schliersee​

Best regards,
Michael