James Lane

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🥾 Landscape Photography ⛰️ Currently building my 2025 Portfolio 📷 Website, Portfolios and Prints below: jameslane.photography

A distant mountain under a clear, indigo sky during blue hour just before sunrise. The bottom half of the image is a crystal clear lake without a breath of wind disturbing the water. The mountain is perfectly reflected in the lake. There are two pairs of rocks in the lake in the immediate foreground. There is also a tiny band of mist at the far end of the lake. The image is a vertical composition of the 4:5 ratio.
Image title: Far Away Places. Three layers of mountain side recede into a very hazy white sky starting in the bottom left corner, fading to white nothingness in the top right. There is low cloud separating the layers.
A small pine sapling clings on to a black/grey, jagged rock that seems to cut diagonally into a fast flowing, cold river. The river fills the entire frame, aside from the central dark rock with the try and a few other rocks in the distance. There is nothing else in the frame. The image is a vertical 4:5 ratio. There is some white water dotted around the frame in small patches. The water is a steely grey blue. The first warm light from sunrise is kissing the small pine sapling, giving it warmth. The image is titled Castaway because the sapling looks like it’s stranded on the rock.
It’s autumn. A fallen tree trunk with lots of spikes broken boughs protruding from it rests diagonally from left to right in the frame. It lays next to the remaining, still standing, trunk it fell from. The floor is mossy green and peppered with little yellow birch leaves. In the background are a number of birch and larch trees, all clinging on to their remaining yellow leaves. There are some grey, moss-covered rocks to the top right of the frame. To the top left of the frame the forest recedes into rusty red bracken instead of mossy green on the forest floor. The image is bright and balanced and has an oil painting look to it.
A close up of some highly eroded sandstone during blue hour, where the shadows catch the dark blues of the sky and the last after glow of the sunset enhance the orange / yellow of the exposed rock. The image has curving stripes from top left to bottom right. There is an off centre round shape that resembles a storm cloud on a gas giant planet.
Diagonal layers of red sandstone and blue shadows. This was taken during blue hour, where the final glow the day cast a soft, colourful light on the rocks. The layers of sandstone begin the bend upwards and form what resembles a mountain rising from a distant landscape. The title is Orogenesis - the scientific term for mountain forming.
A post-sunset pink and blue sky burning through some sea fog. There is a distant blue tinted mountain shrouded in fine mist. The foreground has a loch with silhouettes of reeds standing in it. The loch is reflecting the pink and blue sky. The banks of the loch are silhouetted, framing the water. Hence then name Dark Mirror.
A chaotic grey mountain ash or Rowan tree fills the frame. It has peppermint coloured moss attached to the end of its many branches. There are no leaves left. All that remains are hundreds of bright red berries in small bunches that spread out over the entire image.
The sky is a dark blue, thick cloud with a band of pink as the sunset tries its best to burn through the sea fog at the horizon. There middle third of the image are gentle hills that have mist hanging in their depressions. The bottom third of the image is a still Lochan (a small loch) reflecting the colours of the sunset sky. There are reeds in the lochan that are silhouetted. The predominant colours in the image are dark blue, pink and black.
A wave of immense power crashes against some soft sediment cliffs. The wave is spraying everywhere and you can see the sediments being eroded from the cliffs already entrained within the water.
Haar, some see fog just lingered around the coast all day. The patterns in the send lead to a distant island in the mist.
Horizontal canyon-like stripes of peach / orange rock with blueish shadows in the grooves. At the top of the frame a mountain appears to rise from the ridges, catching the sunrise light. However, these aren’t canyons and mountains, this is a close up of some eroded sandstone that mimics a larger landscape.
A close up image of some red sandstone rock catching the blue hour of sunrise. The rock has very fine layers that swirl across the image, giving the appearance of a waterfall. The layers were in the shade and caught the bluer light of sunrise, giving a wonderful contrast between warm and cool tones. The image is 4:5 vertical.
A dark blue stormy sky hangs over a pure white Scottish mountain, covered in snow. There is no green or brown to be seen. There is some direct storm light on the side of the mountain, illuminating it and making it pop out of the image. Cast on the snowy side of the illuminated mountain is the shadow of another mountain which is out of shot to the left. It gives the impression of a looming giant hiding out of shot.
A forest floor covered in rusty red bracken with thin speckled grey and white tree trunks rising in chaotic unison. The canopy of the woodland is a mixture of yellow and orange. The very distant background of the woodland is almost aqua in colour. Everything is wet because it was raining when I took this photograph.
Swirling layers of grey, beige, steel blue and rusty orange. This is actually a close up image of some rocks, but it resembles the patterns and colours you see in the outer atmosphere of the planet Jupiter.