Landscape Panoramas - The Wide View
Helge Hafstad

Landscape Panoramas - The Wide View

September 2020

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Entry 7358785
1st
463

A well composed soft landscape with ground fog in early morning sun. The Château looks to be alone in a huge landscape, the village in the valley completely hidden. The golden morning colors works well with this. This could be a scene from a movie or the picture on the lid of a puzzle (a hard one to lay...).

Entry 7363389
2nd
48

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17,316 Ratings

An iconic landscape well captured in the morning light. The colors and compositions works very well, and you wonder if that road might take you down to a nice pub for lunch when you've taken your fill of the magnificent coast. The white, well - off white - cliffs are nicely lit and placed in the frame, and the lighthouse in the distance brings your attention to a wider view of vessels and scenes beyond.

Entry 7359914
253rd
135

A very classic Western USA picture, one well executed. Very center focused, but it works out well in this case. This centeredness of the lonely road in a dry desolate landscape and good use of vanishing point is what makes this one a very good picture.

A nicely composed picture with nice warm evening colors. What further attracted me to this picture is the contrasts of the lit bridge into the high rise city, and the tranquil river scene with the derelict building. The lines point towards the city, perhaps a reminder that time moves on.

It deserves being viewed large, but the resolution of the picture is limited, and it could not be made large on a 24" monitor.

Entry 7360705
191st
193
Entry 7360850
130th
5
Entry 7360920
14th
11
Entry 7361117
259th
20
Entry 7361540
201st
90
Entry 7361636
18th
341
Entry 7361818
39th
114
Entry 7362973
142nd
93
Entry 7363061
160th
41
Entry 7363187
5th
278
Entry 7363346
17th
9
Entry 7363353
8th
63

A dreamlike yet sharp late autumn landscape with a dramatic sky, colored hills and soft blurred water. It presents a tranquil scene, yet with its dark colors also perhaps of stormy weather ahead or receding. The fence and gate out in the water is well placed, but brings the questions of why it is there, and how do you open that gate out there. Perhaps this could do well as a wall picture in a psychologists waiting room.

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This contest is for your panoramic landscape photos. A panorama is a photo that is unusually wide with an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, meaning the image is least twice as wide as it is high. A panorama can be created by cropping the height of a single shot, or by combining two or more shots to get a wide picture. The subject in this contest should be a landscape which may be rural, urban or both. Images can be from any perspective such as at ground level, from a building or at height. Slanted horizons, watermarks or frames are discouraged. Colour or black and white are equally acceptable.

500 Images entered

A nicely composed black and white landscape. The placing of the lighthouse and the wide stretch of sea beyond works very well. It is quiet, but the scoured rocks brings the landscape in a storm to mind. Nice range of black shade to white lit surface also.

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Entry 7358546
23rd
287
Entry 7359015
60th
8
Entry 7359096
100th
63
Entry 7359300
159th
62
Entry 7359570
61st
40
Entry 7361796
25th
32
Entry 7362420
64th
50
Entry 7362768
53rd
62
Entry 7363069
45th
129
Entry 7363186
33rd
305
Entry 7363201
476th
45

Love the idea behind this, and a vertical panorama is unusual, but fits well with the grand subject. Like the perspective you have presented here with the very low and small horizon and the Milky Way suspended above. Have read your comments, but unfortunately I find the lines of merger in the presented image to obvious for a top 10 placement.

Entry 7363371
4th
36
Entry 7363377
9th
23
Entry 7363397
7th
34