John Holbrook
Well-Known Member
Thursday’s Task: Distant landscapes. Your interpretation—your mileage may vary!
Valley of Fire State Park, NV
Great Basin National Park, NV
Alan, I like your two interpretations of distant––and beautiful images from both interpretations! I really like both of your distant landscapes of Little Petra and Athens. Both are very interesting images and would perhaps typify another distant interpretation––distant past. Both are well composed as well. I really enjoyed the telephoto interpretation too. The Mt. Hood and the Bisti are both favorites––great compositions. The Vancouver Sunset is one gorgeous image and perhaps my overall favorite. Very nice! The Clouds and Moon image is another favorite. I love the minimalist composition...perfect! Thanks for sharing each of these Alan!Distant Landscapes can take two forms for my interpretation - one is simply distant rom where I live:
Athens
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Little Petra, Jordan
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My own favorite distant landscapes are ones I capture using telephoto lenses:
Mt. Hood and the basalts of the eastern Columbia River Gorge region:
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Telephoto photography in the Bisti
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Vancouver Lake Sunset using a telephoto lens on a Mavic 4 Pro drone
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Clouds and the moon at sunset - 166mm on a Mavic 3 Pro drone
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Jameel, truly beautiful images you've shared today and thank you for doing so. I love the Patricia Lake composition with the beautiful colors and perfect composition. Very nice. I like the fall scene in Vermont as well, with a colorful refection included. Nice. The Grand Tetons is my favorite image of the group. Perfect composition with beautiful colors captured with the blue mountains and autumn forest with still waters below. Very nice. I like the captured autumn colors in the Provo landscape. I love all the autumn orange foliage with the diagonal group of yellow trees within it. Great eye and great capture! And the Black Canyon image certainly benefits from the gorgeous clouds in the sky above. Again nice capture. Thanks for sharing!I am taking a distance from where I live approach to this week's task.
Patricia Lake, Jasper AB
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Fall scene in Vermont
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Grand Tetons, WY
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Provo, UT
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Black Canyon, CO
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Jeffrey, a gorgeous image you've shared today...thank you! I love this composition you've created––beautiful light, textures, and colors captured. Very nice.I may drive for days from my home to a place special to me, only to find out it is the backyard of another photographer I met there. It's all relative to where you start your journey or where you live.
The San Juan River and some Hoodoos in Utah. Far from me. Close to you if you live in Bluff!
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Here are a few from my archive:Distant Landscapes can take two forms for my interpretation - one is simply distant from where I live:
Athens
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Little Petra, Jordan
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My own favorite distant landscapes are ones I capture using telephoto lenses:
Mt. Hood and the basalts of the eastern Columbia River Gorge region:
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Telephoto photography in the Bisti
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Vancouver Lake Sunset using a telephoto lens on a Mavic 4 Pro drone
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Clouds and the moon at sunset - 166mm on a Mavic 3 Pro drone
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I’m not sure those rocks like me either—maybe they don’t like our accents! (I will say they do look interesting). Now back to the Task—great image and the rocks do “make” the image! Very nice.Kata Tjuṯa sits in the center of Australia, which is pretty far from California. This is the only rock I’ve ever encountered that I thought didn’t like me.
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Larry, beautiful landscapes images you have shared—and thank you for sharing each of them. I like the winding stream and trees in the foreground layers within the Red Mountain Pass image—and all the layers in this composition. Very nice. The Telluride composition works well with the road disappearing into this beautiful mountain landscape. I love this snowy Grand Canyon image with the dead tree aiding the composition—nice. Sunrise at Dead Horse Point is perhaps my favorite image. I love the light illuminating just the edges in this capture. Nice. I like the impressive Boreas Peak with the middle ground layer adding interest to this composition. Another favorite is the Kenosha Pass image, a perfect capture in time and composition. I love all the beautiful layers in this panorama. Very nice. Again Larry, thank you for sharing each of these great images.Here are a few from my archive:
View from Red Mountain Pass
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Road East for Telluride
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Grand Canyon
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Sunrise at Dead Horse Point
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Boreas Peak seen for the Boreas Pass.
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Aspen on Kenosha Pass
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A truly awe inspiring subject and capture Kyle…and beautiful image. I like your “distant” double definition. Very nice.