New Joiners - Landscapes #663

An easy choice for number one, this is a beautiful image and one I'd be proud to call mine. The water movement is lovely, it has just the right amount of blur to give it the silky effect but not so much that it's an unrecognisable mess! I like the vignette, it really draws your eye in and the composition feels balanced. Great colours too, overall it's a fantastic shot.

This shot just reminds me of visiting Lofoten. Norway is amazing for landscapes, the juxtaposition between the wilderness and built up towns is great. I like the colours and it's composed nicely to show the 2 different elements of the landscape.

I like this, the rock formations are spectacular and the view in general is pretty amazing but I do feel like the out of focus plants distract a little from it. I think with scenes like this you've gotta either go big or go home and either really incorporate them properly or leave them out.

It's a shame there's no description of this, I'd like to know a bit more about the place as it looks incredible. I like that you've included some figures in the image, it gives it a good sense of scale and really shows off the landscape.

I think this has a lot of potential, but it's very very blue. I'd maybe revisit and see if you can find something neutral grey in the image to take a white balance reading from and then cool it down a bit from there but as it stands I feel it's a little too blue. Great reflections though and a fantastic subject to photograph!

This looks to be a great sunrise/sunset. I love the colours reflected in the clouds. Nicely composed too, including the Cactus gives some foreground interest that balances well with the mountains and intense background colours. I'd maybe crop a little off the top of the sky just to remove the brightest bits but that's just a minor thing it's still lovely.

I admire your ethos, travel with as little impact as possible. I really like this image, the foreground textures are fantastic. I think if you'd used a graduated filter on the sky you could have avoided the blown highlights as this is the only thing that lets this down. I really like the square crop too.

What a mad landscape, I need to get myself there! You've done a great job of containing the dynamic range here, I really like the way this looks. It's nice and sharp all the way through, I'd have liked to have seen a little more of the rock formations but that's just a personal opinion!

This is lovely, the reflections are mirror perfect! For a mobile shot this is decent too. It looks a tad over sharpened but I suspect that is just to do with the phone processing it. Great colours too, what a great place to photograph.

I really like this, the dappled light throughout is wonderful. The road winding it's way through the scene looks spot on, it actually reminds me of the Isle of Skye. The landscape is very similar in a lot of ways. I'd crop some of the sky out if this was mine, it makes up more or less 50% of the image and it does make it feel a little unbalanced. If you cropped it to 16:9 I think you'd have a lot stronger image.

I really like this, it's composed well and the black and white conversion is good. It's got plenty of tonal range and there's no ruined highlights or shadows. There's plenty to look at too, you've made a really nice job of it.

Every time I see photos from Hawaii I just think to myself how can this place be real? The mountains are incredible, unlike anywhere else. This photo encapsulates it perfectly, the drama is there and the rainbow tops it off!

A really simple but effective image. It works well, the composition is good and it's got a nice subject. It looks a tad underexposed, I'd maybe boost the whites a bit to give it a bit more contrast too. The cloud inversion looks epic!