A hike in the mountains

annnna8888

I finally got round to postprocessing some of the fall photos from last year. These are from a hike I did in late October in the Julian Alps in Slovenia. I won't bore you with a lengthy description, but for all who are interested, there's the whole travelogue with more photos on my page.

We started before sunrise and had been hiking for an hour before the sun finally came up:


The slopes of the mountain we were climbing were covered with larches:


Looking down from the top to the valley below:


The weather improved as the day went on. Here we were on the third peak in the ridge, looking toward Slovenian hight mountain, Triglav (in the clouds ):


Golden larches all over the place:





Back in the valley, we stopped at a clearing in the woods where shepherds used to live many years ago:


It was a lovely hike! :barb

Ana

Prezwoodz

That looks like a wonderful place! Its quite a beatiful area that you captured well!

Skippy

annnna8888 wrote:

I finally got round to postprocessing some of the fall photos from last year. These are from a hike I did in late October in the Julian Alps in Slovenia. I won't bore you with a lengthy description, but for all who are interested, there's the whole travelogue with more photos on my page.
We started before sunrise and had been hiking for an hour before the sun finally came up:
The slopes of the mountain we were climbing were covered with larches:
Looking down from the top to the valley below:
The weather improved as the day went on. Here we were on the third peak in the ridge, looking toward Slovenian hight mountain, Triglav (in the clouds ):
Golden larches all over the place:
Back in the valley, we stopped at a clearing in the woods where shepherds used to live many years ago:
It was a lovely hike!
Ana

These are beautiful Ana, what breathe taking scenery.
You've captured the colours of these scenes so well.
Ana I always enjoy viewing your images .... Skippy
.

erich6

Skippy wrote:

These are beautiful Ana, what breathe taking scenery.
You've captured the colours of these scenes so well.
Ana I always enjoy viewing your images .... Skippy
.

Nicely done once again!

Erich

David_S85

Wonderful work, Ana.

ian408

That's twice that you've teased us with photos of a beautiful part of the
world!

bsvirginian

Really appreciate your mini travelogue to places that many of us will never visit. BS

annnna8888

Prezwoodz wrote:

That looks like a wonderful place! Its quite a beatiful area that you captured well!

Thanks! The area is really beautiful and I love going back every year.

Ana

annnna8888

Skippy wrote:

These are beautiful Ana, what breathe taking scenery.
You've captured the colours of these scenes so well.
Ana I always enjoy viewing your images .... Skippy
.

Thank you, Skippy! You're making me blush ... :

Ana

annnna8888

erich6 wrote:

Nicely done once again!

Erich

Thanks, Erich! Living in a photogenic place helps.

Ana

annnna8888

David_S85 wrote:

Wonderful work, Ana.

Thanks, David!

Ana

annnna8888

ian408 wrote:

That's twice that you've teased us with photos of a beautiful part of the
world!

Hey, thanks! I have? What was the first time?

Ana

annnna8888

bsvirginian wrote:

Really appreciate your mini travelogue to places that many of us will never visit. BS

Thank you! Maybe I can persuade somebody to visit Slovenia anyway? It's a gorgeous country, I'm telling you!

Ana

ivar

annnna8888 wrote:

Thank you! Maybe I can persuade somebody to visit Slovenia anyway? It's a gorgeous country, I'm telling you!

Ana

Maybe there can be a mini-shootout in Slovenia?

annnna8888

ivar wrote:

Maybe there can be a mini-shootout in Slovenia?

Hey, if there's enough interest among dgrinners, I can't see why not.

Ana

ivar

annnna8888 wrote:

Hey, if there's enough interest among dgrinners, I can't see why not.

Ana

can I see some more hands please?!?!

FotoChick

annnna8888 wrote:

The weather improved as the day went on. Here we were on the third peak in the ridge, looking toward Slovenian hight mountain, Triglav (in the clouds ):


Ana

Wow, love them all but the image with Triglav in the Clouds and the lone hiker is stunning! It would make a wonderful travel brochure image. I can see the text now... “I wish you were here!” ...I want to be there!

kmorgan

You are so lucky to live in such a scenic locale! I'm jealous!!! Nice shots.

Kevin

annnna8888

FotoChick wrote:

Wow, love them all but the image with Triglav in the Clouds and the lone hiker is stunning! It would make a wonderful travel brochure image. I can see the text now... “I wish you were here!” ...I want to be there!

Thanks! It had been pretty cloudy an hour before I took this photo, and I really was glad the weather improved and offered such blues skies and puffy white clouds!

Ana

annnna8888

kmorgan wrote:

You are so lucky to live in such a scenic locale! I'm jealous!!! Nice shots.

Kevin

Thanks, Kevin! I agree, Slovenia is a very scenic place.

Ana

DavidS

Beautiful scenery, great shots, well done. I like all of them. The third one looks like an impressionist painting.

ian408

annnna8888 wrote:

Hey, thanks! I have? What was the first time?

Ana

Maybe it was [url=ttp://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=51303]this [/url] one?

annnna8888

DavidS wrote:

Beautiful scenery, great shots, well done. I like all of them. The third one looks like an impressionist painting.

Thanks, David! I agree - looking down to that valley was magical and I took dozens of photos.

Ana

annnna8888

ian408 wrote:

Maybe it was [URL="ttp://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=51303"]this [/URL] one?

Aha, thanks! I wasn't sure which one you were referring to as I have posted a few series of photos with Slovenian landscapes.

Ana

ian408

annnna8888 wrote:

Aha, thanks! I wasn't sure which one you were referring to as I have posted a few series of photos with Slovenian landscapes.

Ana

Keep them coming! The country is beautiful.

Prezwoodz

The mountains look like they have some nice rock faces on them. How is the rock there? Is it a feasible rock climbing destination or just an other worldly hiking destination.

annnna8888

Prezwoodz wrote:

The mountains look like they have some nice rock faces on them. How is the rock there? Is it a feasible rock climbing destination or just an other worldly hiking destination.

The rock is great and there are many climbing spots. Check out this link:
http://www.rockclimbingatlas.com/south_eastern_europe/slovenia.html
I've tried to find more links, but most Slovenian climbing clubs only have webpages in Slovenian.
Interested?

Ana

pete w

Ana, Great color
I enjoyed these immensely, hiking is a great pastime and gives you a sense of achievement when you reach the summit. Capturing them as you have allows us to go with you.

Marc Muench

composition
Ana

I have enjoyed viewing your images of such an unusual place. Here is what I want to convey to you: The location is spectacular; in fact I would consider it a potential location for future shoot outs! Your eye has potential and I really hope you consider studying photography more. Your compositions are made up of bits and pieces not fully developed. To be brief about one point, identify one subject in your pictures and focus on it. In landscape it is more difficult because most don't identify with the subjects in a landscape such as a single rock or leaf or tree. However, it is your opportunity to point such subject out!

Go for it!

annnna8888

pete w wrote:

I enjoyed these immensely, hiking is a great pastime and gives you a sense of achievement when you reach the summit. Capturing them as you have allows us to go with you.

Thanks, Pete! I agree with everything you said.

Ana

annnna8888

Marc Muench wrote:

Ana

I have enjoyed viewing your images of such an unusual place. Here is what I want to convey to you: The location is spectacular; in fact I would consider it a potential location for future shoot outs! Your eye has potential and I really hope you consider studying photography more. Your compositions are made up of bits and pieces not fully developed. To be brief about one point, identify one subject in your pictures and focus on it. In landscape it is more difficult because most don't identify with the subjects in a landscape such as a single rock or leaf or tree. However, it is your opportunity to point such subject out!

Go for it!

Thanks for such a detailed and helpful critique, Marc!
You make a valid point about the difficulty of finding a single subject to make the composition stronger when shooting landscapes. The landscape itself may be spectacular, but making the photo spectacular often proves to be harder than it seems. The hikes that I do are usually as much about exercise as they are about photography. Which means I try to make the best of the situation (and place and weather and time of day) as it's impossible to be in ten different places on one hike at the time of the best light, which usually only comes at sunrise and sunset. I am also aware that for that special photo you have to return to the location several times, unless you're very lucky with the weather.
As for Slovenia being a possible location for a future shootout, it certainly is a very scenic place and packs in a lot on a relatively small area, which can be covered easily. The idea has actually been mentioned here before. If you're thinking about it seriously, let me know so I can possibly help you with more info.

Ana