dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

I certainly like the broader definition of landscape. While I do not think I am qualified to manage such a forum, I have just wondered why there is not one. It is something I would like to get more involved in.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Now this definition I like. Good find, Linda.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Who will help me grow the wheat?
Who will help me gather the wheat?
Who will help me bake the bread?
I KNOW who will help me eat the bread...all those too busy to help with the first three! :-)

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Thank you, delderby! Much appreciated!

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Thank you for your kind comment...and your nomination for a new moderator!

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

So true.

Linary Loc: UK

You guys seem to be struggling - perhaps a little reticent at putting yourselves forward.

A section such as this (Landscape Photography) will attract little - if any - animosity and or controversy. The fairly new Panorama section compares well. Much of the work of the section moderator is "self inflicted" i.e. he indexes the posted images - a really useful feature for the subscriber but it is surely time consuming for the moderator.

To get the section underway and keep its momentum, the moderator will need to advertise the section presence.

Some moderators seem to leave their sections to their own devices and thus have no demands upon their time. I think when that happens the Mod should hand over the baton.

Do you need to be the best Landscape Photographer on the Hog? No, definitely not. There is at least one section manager who thinks he is best at the particular speciality - and that section though popular, could be a great deal better.

I would nominate Linda from Maine to head this up, a highly respected hogger with a penchant for saying the right thing at the right time.

B&W section - surely that should be the Greyscale section - and One Legged Birds Standing on Twigs section - They might attract a little more controversy.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I would second that nomination. (Sorry, Linda!) I have no clue what a section moderator does!

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

I would definitely participate if Linda chose to moderate.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I was sitting in my recliner watching "American Pickers" and sharing popcorn with Trixie when I felt the earth shift on its axis

I would make a terrible moderator because I have so little patience for rudeness and bullying. I'd alienate half the population within a week! Not that I'm saying landscaper photographers are rude bullies - ha! - it's the "visitors" I'd worry about.

Very much appreciated, but I must decline the nomination.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

Oh, but, Linda, you'll do it tactfully! I sure wouldn't!

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

LOL, I can certainly appreciate your stance!

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I agree. At least start with a broader definition. As for Linda's discussion around "landscape" or "scene," I would point to Adams's Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico. However you might categorize it, it is a fascinating image with much to teach us about visualizing and capturing images in the 'wide open spaces.' Without the pueblo, it would have been a great image. With the pueblo included, it is a powerful one that occupied his interest for 10 years, beginning in 1941, and has fascinated the rest of us ever since it was first published in 1942. What's interesting to me is that Adams is quoted in "U.S. Camera Annual 1943" as calling it, "a rather normal photograph of a typical New Mexican landscape." His assistant and editor Mary Alinder is quoted as calling it in 1984 "a 'fantastic scene', a church and cemetery near Hernandez, New Mexico."

I've seen some great images that I would certainly call landscapes which included an incidental climber or isolated hiker. They were much more interesting for the inclusion of human beings whose insignificant size served to magnify the grandeur of the landscape itself. I would also submit that the very existence of a landscape photograph speaks to a human presence...the photographer's.

I'd hope to see such a section established and that its purpose be to encourage each of us...first to photograph and then to improve. It's hard to improve if we haven't photographed anything. Valid critique is certainly valuable, but (in my opinion) only to encourage improvement.

Bubbee Loc: Aventura, Florida

Me, too! Count me in!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

This is wonderfully said. I hope whoever becomes moderator bases the guidelines and "welcome" topic around this sentiment. Also, I looked at panorama after reading Linary's comments, and there are some good points about behavior there - and there are in FYC's also:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-474354-1.html

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