New Joiners - Landscapes #524

This looks really beautiful, I love how the colour just fills the entire frame. Nicely composed too, with the path winding through diagonally. I admire your effort to get up there too, it's definitely been worth it. Great job and an amazing memory to have too!

Avenues of trees are always a good shout when taking photos, especially when the light is as good as this! If it was possible I'd have maybe shifted a foot or so to the left as compositionally a central view works best, looking straight down the middle. I'm aware there was a fence though so this is just me being picky. I really like this image, definitely worthy of a top 10 spot :)

A nice, punchy image showing off the power of the sea! Compositionally, it's busy but it works on this occasion. Looks like you've had some nice strong sunlight too which has helped with the contrast! Good choice of shutter speed too, freezing the water in its angry state!

I love this, such a simple but effective photo. The early morning light is gorgeous and the backlit trees really stand out. It's composed well and the added Orton effect looks really smart. You could be forgiven for thinking you were in the Scottish Highlands in Autumn! Thanks for entering this, it's a really beautiful image and worthy of the number one slot!

This looks like an absolutely stunning place for a walk, and you've done a lovely job of capturing it. I like the way the river winds in from the corner, compositionally it's good to have something to anchor your foreground. It reminds me a bit of the valleys in northern Italy and Slovenia. My only criticism, and it's small is that the clouds are a little overexposed. Keep an eye on your histogram on your camera as it'll show when your whites are blown out! The main thing is that you've made me want to go there, so the photo has definitely done it's job! Well done :)

A pretty simple, but effective photo with plenty to look at!. Without the cloud, this composition definitely would look unbalanced but clever use of long exposure has really transformed the image. I love the flowers in the foreground too. There does look to be a bit of colour banding on the sky which can be typical of some Nikon sensors so take care when processing deep blues! All in all, a lovely image.

I like the composition here, and the sky looks like it was a nice morning. Regarding the processing, overall it looks good, I do think you've maybe lightened the shadows a little too much though. I'd have maybe adjusted the curves into a slight S, my reasoning is that so early in the morning and with the sun in front of you there should be more shadows in the hedges! Nice job overall, it's still a pretty photo :)

This is such a cool shot, well done for putting in the effort to get it! Balancing exposures like this can be a nightmare, you've made a nice job of it. I like the composition too, with the road winding through the scene!

Well, this looks like a pretty awesome scene! Snowy mountains always look fantastic, but are generally a bit tricky to get bang on. it's important to make sure we nail the exposure as it's super easy to overexpose the whites. It might just be the processing, but the extreme highlights are a tad blown, The rest of the image is balanced well and looks tremendous. Nice job and it looks like an incredible place to visit!

A location I know well, and a very good shot of it! I like the central composition, generally speaking a centrally placed point of interest is frowned upon but here it really works. Nice sympathetic processing as well, you've resisted the urge to make the sky look overdone and kept it looking natural and it looks great for it. :)

Hoar frost on trees always looks fantastic, and catching them with the sun on them is even better! I would have maybe sent a few minutes cloning out the 2 twigs in the immediate foreground as they break up the snow line and draw the eye away from the trees but it's still a nice photo!

This looks incredible, I admire the work you've put into it. It makes a huge difference stacking the sky and then shooting the foreground at a lower ISO, the full resolution image is very clean. The only thing I'd have possibly done differently is rather than a square crop have it as 4:3 or 3:2 with equal amounts off the top and bottom, the top right of the sky is very dark and I think it might balance the image up a little!

This is a really, really beautiful image. I know you say this is a consolation shot, but to be honest I'm kinda glad you didn't get the fog as you'd not have got this! Lovely colours in the sky, and you've done a good job of cloning out whatever power lines were in as I looked and couldn't see any evidence! I agree the reeds do look better silhouetted in the foreground too!