Evolving Landscapes, Infrared, Wildlife And More – The Weekly Community Roundup

Welcome to our weekly community wrap-up. Each week, our community members come up with amazing stories from around the world through their photography. The past week had beautiful landscape, nature and macro photos on the Light Stalking forums with some stunning photography by the community and forum discussions. We also had a few new members who joined us in the forums.

Here is the Photo Of The Week that is judged by Federico every week. This week's photo of the week is by David. Read more about it here – Photo Of The Week – June 19th

Bridge over a nature reserve – Copyright David C

The weekend photography challenge from last week was “Evolving Landscapes” and members came up with their creative interpretation of the theme by capturing very interesting shots – some of them are shared below.

This week, we have a new challenge that has some very interesting submissions already. Join the challenge here – Geometric Urbanism

Here are some “Evolving Landscapes” photographs from the past week's challenge that we thought were great and should be included here:

Watching the Milky Way evolve using the technology of a smartphone – Copyright Pat Garrett

Engineered terrace (prevent rock slides) over popular hiking trail – Copyright Anne Hornsby

Hydrothermal pipes – Copyright Anne Hornsby

Here are photos shared by members in other forums like General Photo Chit Chat, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Astrophotography, etc.

Interesting Threads in the Forums:

Our members have started some very interesting threads so you can follow and get inspired and some where you can also post your own photos. These are great ways to learn more in terms of photography and the natural world we live in.

Stephen Thackeray also has an abstract photography thread here:

Birds in my garden – started by Tersha where she will be posting photos of birds that she sees in her garden

Stephen Thackeray has started a thread for his insect macro images. Check out the stunning photos.

Moments Through a Dirty Windshield – Started by Retired Grunt, who will be posting photos from the project weekly. These are moments of life that he captures while he drives although some are taken while parked.

Mono Photos – A series of interesting photos in monochrome by Patrick

Porch Photography – Robert Apple has started a new thread – Last Year I was Posting a series of photos all taken from my back porch using my Motorola G5 Cell phone, It was a learning experience for sure. I actually could squeeze decent photos out of rather cheap and technologically lagging cell phone. This year I’m switching it up and using a OMD EM1 Mark II with a Leica DG Vario – Elmar 100-400 f4-6.3 attached to it. A lens I decided to give another chance as I had in the for sale box as it’s not sealed very well and has some internal dust.

Interesting Topics And Discussions:

Cameras – Past, Present or Considering – Retired Grunt dropped in a discussion thread – topic being your experiences with cameras.
Storage and Organization – a discussion on storage and organisation of digital images, started by Stefanie Markham.
Gone Bananas – a discussion on Nano Banana Pro, started by Rob Eyers
Insufferable Bores – Check out this thread started by Rob about pseudo-intellectual gatekeepers in photography.
This is Disruption – Patrick shared this interesting podcast – worth a listen and follow if you like podcast or anything creative. There are also a few of his works in this forum.

If you are someone who captures images with your smartphone, we have a Mobile Photography Challenge where you can post your mobile photos and also check out the works by other photographers. The images must be captured and edited on a smartphone. Join to submit the photos over here.

There are also some members' picks that are featured. These can be chosen by any of the members and are put in a whole new thread of their own and called out as being a great addition and shot for the forums. Check out those stunning captures here.

Throwdowns:

Here are some throwdowns to follow and post your own photos, or you can start your own throwdown too.

Maps of Life – Started by Anne Hornsby – Aside from the best known use of “map,” – geographic area, maps also can be symbolic visual representations of a space or theme. Maps can track our experiences, memories, and movements.

Absorbing the medium – Copyright Patrick

RGB – Take a photo with all 3 primary colors as prominent features. Started by Robert Apple

Red – Started by Anne Hornsby

Creative Aperture Throwdown – started by Robert Apple

Trees That Go Bump In The Night – Photos of trees that have passed on – Let's See what you’ve got. Started by Robert Apple

Abstract Flowers – Started by Rob Wood – Flowers and foliage shown in a unique or abstract way! Show us what you come up with!

Low Angle Photography – stated by Robert Apple – Get Down Low and shoot.

LED Light Throwdown – Started by Pat Garrett – Does anyone use colored LEDs? Please post your images. I’d like to see how others use them.

Square Crop Land / Seascapes – Started by Robert Apple – Small, Large, Macro / Seascapes, just make the crop Square.

Hi-key Throwdown – started by Tersha – Show us your hi-key shots …

Let’s see your favorite soccer photos – Started by Derek Robertson

Water and Stone – Essential Elements in the Make up of our Planet, post what you got! Started by Robert Apple

Fade To Black – Monochrome Throwdown – Started by Patrick – Feel free to share your Black and White monochrome below – No Rules Except B&W only.

Negative Space Photos – Started by Retired Grunt – Negative Space is basically your subject surrounded by nothing but a single color or texture. All sky, all water, all sand, can be utilized strongly. The intent is to isolate the subject and keep the viewers focus on the subject.

Photographing Natures Textures – Started by Robert Apple – Pano, Macro, or anything in between. Only Rule, Nothing Man-Made, natures effect on man made objects is OK.

Wildlife Throwdown – Patrick started this throwdown as we have quite a few new members in the forum who are interested in wildlife photography. Please feel free to post anything wildlife , whatever you love your choice from tiny beast to to kings of the wild.

And, there are images posted in the Shark Tank forum where members request for constructive criticism/feedback on their photos.