Landscape = the horizon & plenty of sky

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The land looks awfully flat, I like land with wrinkles.
 
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Here's something with a darker mood. (I've included a few wrinkles).

NV 051. A lonely road and a rain squall near Pioche, Nevada.
A negative scan. RB67 camera, 180mm lens, Kodak PXP film

Stormy Highway at Pony Springs by Reinhold S., on Flickr

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Fantastic image! As a Prairie girl myself, I love these flat landscapes and big skies - it sure reminds me of home. We definitely don’t have landscapes like these in Japan!
 

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Hey there mooseontheloose, if you see a tall white-bearded santa claus-looking sort of guy wandering around Kyoto with a Veriwide and/or Ciro-flex (TLR) over the next couple weeks, it might be me. At 6'3", I might stick out some!

I have 8x10 negatives from times through eastern Washington...acres of sky out there. But I have not printed them. It seems few of my images have any sky in them and fewer where the sky dominates. I treat it more like a backdrop at times like these two platinum prints (2.25" square and the other 8x10).
 

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On the Oregon Trail... mile # 575, only 1345 miles to Oregon. Chimney rock marked the end of the prairie; the mountains of Western America lay ahead...
#NHPS 131. A negative scan. Camera: 617 Fotoman modified to 615 film format, lens: 150mm Fujinon, YG filter, film: Ilford FP4

. . Chimney Rock, Nebraska by Reinhold S., on Flickr

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Spring Valley, Utah.

About halfway on a 76 mile stretch of empty road (Utah #21), we find Spring Valley.
Here it is... all of it.
If you were planning on stopping for a hamburger and a beer... sorry.

# UTGE 072. Negative scan. Camera: Fotoman 617, converted to 615 format. 80mm S.Symmar XL. O2 filter, Ilford FP4 film

. . Spring Valley, Utah by Reinhold S., on Flickr

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Yep, Konica IR film is unique and wonderfully expressive without "shouting" and "screaming" like many IR images.

Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland. 12th. Century round tower, cathedral ruins & graveyard.
Round towers are symbolic of Irish history.
The towers were probably built between the 9th and 12th centuries.
# IRGE 003. A negative scan. Mamiya M7 camera, 65mm lens, Konica K750 infrared film.

. . Round Tower. Ardmore, Ireland by Reinhold S., on Flickr

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Landscape is called landscape for a reason and not skyscape. Lots of great landscape images that feature little sky. For example AA Halfdome picture which features a small amount of featureless night sky except for a tiny moon and no horizon.. Lots of other examples for Adams. It's always good to avoid generalizing. It is a trap for the unwary.
 
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The aesthetics of the word landscape is nicely discussed here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape
Here's an example of a narrowly cropped scene printed in what is commonly referred to as "landscape format" (1:2.5 ratio).

. . Sword Ferns. Oregon by Reinhold S., on Flickr

However, the scene is too confined to satisfy the expectation of a broad Landscape vista.
Confusing format with topic may be confusing...

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Thankee, kind sir...

For our audience's consideration, here's a 30/70 landscape/skyscape...

. . Mt Adams, Washington by Reinhold S., on Flickr

The only problem is that it's not in Landscape format (I get sooo confused...).

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Since I expressed some confusion about landscape as a topic -vs- landscape as a format, I hereby submit a true landscape (topic) in a true landscape (format) presentation...

Late afternoon... my 8x20" Canham was folded up and we were about to leave.
This band of clouds suddenly materialized.
After a mad scramble to set everything up, I snapped two negatives.
A few moments later the clouds took over and the scene collapsed.

. . Mt. Hood, Oregon by Reinhold S., on Flickr

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Still qualifies as a landscape? It's got a horizon and plenty of sky. Not so much land...
 

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