From waterfalls in Iceland to enchanting forests, jaw-dropping images

Daily Mail ^ | 29 November 2017 | Ted Thornhill

[mairdie]

New book Masters of Landscape Photography contains the work of 16 renowned photographers

Each photographer explains how they got the shot, including technical details

The book, published by Ammonite Press, is designed to inspire and even set you on the path to photographic success

[mairdie]

A new set of landscape photographs. And might I mention my Landscapes from Daily Mail?

[ClearCase_guy]

[Puppage]

Beautiful

[mairdie]

There’s a wonderful waterfall at Montmorency Falls in Quebec. And Niagara, of course, from the Canadian side.

[GnuThere]

Wow, love that top one of Norway, so pretty!

[mairdie]

Isn’t that amazing? !!!!!!!! True art in the eye of the photographer as well as in nature.

[joesbucks]

The one just outside of Quebec city is nice too.

[SES1066]

I’d swear that the image of the Trango Towers in Pakistan is straight out of “The Lord of the Rings”!

[AFreeBird]

L8r

[mairdie]

Which one is that?

Quebec City is one of my favorite places. I took a conference to Montreal once and went back to QC while I had the chance. One of my 5th great grandfathers was in QC when it was surrounded by the American forces and refused, as an American, to defend the city so went out and enlisted with the American force. He was with General Montgomery when he fell and wrote the letter to Washington telling them about Montgomery’s death. Wish I’d known that all the times I visited there!

[mairdie]

>>Trango Towers in Pakistan is straight out of “The Lord of the Rings”

You’re right! As soon as you said it I could see that. Great catch.

[joesbucks]

I goofed. I forgot the name of it. It’s the same one you mentioned. We were there a year ago in October. Really enjoyed it as well as the city. Very European in feel.

[mairdie]

I remember getting soaked. Great fun.

[right way right]

Brrrr. reminds me to put another log on the fire.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Once again, kudos to you for having both a discerning eye for magnificent images and then sharing them. Thank you!

If you ever get a photographic ping list going may I request to be on it.

A suggestion to all Freepers looking at this article, I highly suggest checking out the rest of the images at the Daily Mail, and if you haven’t seen the pictures at the link for the panoramas, by all means, do do. One thing about the images at the daily mail is that they are cropped to fit in the web page. To see the whole image, at least in Waterfox, (Firefox), I right click and select “View Background Image”

Just a few thoughts. The images at the Daily Mail have a horizontal resolution of 1920 pixels. Size makes a huge difference and these images are even more spectacular when viewed on a large flat-screen in 1080p or even scaled up to 4k. Many, if not a majority of images displayed in public suffer from two major problems, one, not having room to breathe and the other, poor lighting. Imagine looking at any of these images in a 12” frame versus a 40” frame. I always carry a tactical flashlight and urge everyone to try an experiment. Take any photograph (or painted image) and hit it with the high-beam from about 1 to 2 feet away. The colors absolutely pop and a well made image takes on an almost three dimensional look.

Finally, let me share back to you one of my favorite landscape photographers. I had the privilege to see “Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light, Cleveland Museum of Natural History” some 11 years ago. You can find his web page here... http://robertturnerphoto.com/gallery/

For a look at how his images look in frames on walls look at this page... http://robertturnerphoto.com/exhibits/

[mairdie]

Thank you for your very kind words.

I should note that when I post an image, I always add a width attribute to restrict its size. I do this purposely so that you can always do a View Image and see the whole image. The only way to get the images out of the two Daily Mail articles that I posted was with the "View Background Image". But once I remove them, they're available with a simple "View Image." That's not usual with Daily Mail articles. Usually their articles are available with just View Image and are in one of two sizes - 634 or 9something.

You'll find that in many computer respects I'm woefully innocent. So I actually barely understand pings and am afraid that a ping list, currently, would be beyond my skill set. Back when I was in computer language design, I always swore that I was better with a xerox machine than with a computer. And even that was questionable if you'd seen the number of mistakes I made trying to two-up articles in the "Lisp Pointers" or "Ada Letters" magazines for which I was creator and editor.

But if you've seen my Landscapes Music Video, you've seen that the images come from a vast number of Daily Mail photography articles that I had put away in my link list, that I had built for the New Zealand researcher with whom I work on poetry research. The Fine Arts Music Video is a compilation of other articles, often from non-landscape photography pages.

What IS within my skill set is to build a separate link list to the incredible photography pages contained within my larger link list. It's trivial, of course, to create a separate webpage that lists only the photography pages, possibly separated by their topic. I imagine I could post that new webpage, if it were desired, in the Personal topic rather than in Chat since it would point to my website rather than to a news site.

Is this something that would be desirable?

And thank you for the wonderful detail on showing full size images. That's invaluable.

Best, Mary

[mairdie]

I'm an idiot. I responded in the middle of my night and completely forgot about the Subject Links I already have.

Pure Landscape Links are 120 Daily Mail landscape links and the little icons give you some notion of what's at the link. The large link list I posted was my being lazy and not making icons, as well as lumping all the topics together. If you'd enjoy it, I'd be glad to pull more landscape links out of that big list and merge them into the icon page. I collect them because I am overwhelmed by beauty - photographs, art, etc. And once I see them, I don't want to lose them again. Packrat here - even of memories and images. So I have a place for myself where I can be reminded of something like

Living the high life: The village at the top of the world where inhabitants look down at the clouds

or

The incredibly coloured rocky landscape that looks as though it's been painted

For me, non-landscape photographs sort under art, so there's my Fine Arts Links and Even More Art Links, which include:

Extraordinary images merge images of European city streets in war and peace

and

Stunning vintage photos of 'loose women in tights' who perfected the art of the tease

and

Sweeping landscapes and sepia stares

There are more tucked away under the astronomy links and the history links. The Daily Mail music videos are my way of pulling out my favorite images so that I can watch continuously without having to click. If there's a topic that you can pull out through my links that you want to see as a music video because you'd react the way I do, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Those two Daily Mail landscape links that I posted came after I finished my Daily Mail music videos, so aren't included.