Photo by: henrikj.

Found this in the Recent Interesting section of Flickr. It’s such an awesome scenic shot, I couldn’t pass it up. I love the composition, with the body of water in the lower left flowing out into the ocean. And there’s just a hint of a sky and horizon at the end of the picture, the bulk of it being land. Really makes you want to go travel and find some awesome scenes like this. There’s nothing like this in central Jersey…

Photo by: ufufnmitsue.

Spotted this pic in the recent uploads on Flickr. Nice scenic pic of the ocean and the seaside. The sky is well exposed (see the blueish tint to it), and the clouds add some visual appeal. But it looks like this little cove is in a shadow or something – the foreground is really shadowed, while the background is much brighter. Notice the rocks in the mid left that appear to be brighter (no shadow?). The picture is nice compositionally, but a little exposure adjustment in Photoshop/Lightroom to darken the background and lighten the foreground would help it out I think…

Photo by: daplums.

Wow. The colors and the saturation in this sunset is just eye-catching. It’s definitely what caught my eye. I was looking through the recent uploads, and within one or two pages of pictures this screamed out to me, “Cool.” Sunsets are a tough thing to photograph on auto, cause the camera doesn’t always know how to meter the sky and pick the right exposure to get those nice, saturated colors. So when you come across a decent photograph of a sunset, you know you’ve come across someone who has some idea about what they’re doing…

Photo by caleb.pierce.

Today’s picture comes out of the latest pics. I stumbled on a baseball set that I really liked, but the photographer disabled downloading so I couldn’t link directly to the picture. So we get the runner up instead. Still, this is a nice scene. The composition is pretty good, with the buildings right along the top third line in the picture. It’s also nice how the rocky cliffs recede into the distance and converge in the horizon.

Photo by: Hullboy2.

So I looked through the recent uploads to Flickr today, and it took a while to find something nice. On the first page, I saw a cool landscape picture, but I thought I’d look for something else… and then I waded through pages of mediocre junk before I saw piece. I love the composition, with the tree in the foreground and the little hill/peak in the back right. I think it would have been a better picture if it was taken a few minutes earlier in the sunset, so the sky was a little bit more colorful… but hey. You can’t control everything. If you could just re-wind the sun by 15 minutes any time you wanted to, we’d all have an easier time taking pictures outside.

Photo by: Nurmanman.

Beautiful picture from the English countryside (Cumbria, to be precise). I really like the composition. The distant mountains kind of hang out in the back, separated from the foreground by the trees. The saturation in the foreground is also really nice. This reminds me of my own travels through England and Scotland… and makes me want to go back.

By David Brightwell.

Today’s picture is of a lighthouse along the North Sea. I was browsing through some pictures of clouds and sunsets on Flickr, and this really jumped out at me. I love the way the dark, eerie mood of the picture is contrasted by the single bright light at the base of the lighthouse. Natured helped out with the ominously shaped clouds, too; I don’t think this would be as cool on a clear night sky.