B&W photo of a mountain creek meandering through a much larger rocky river bed in a valley. One side of the valley is covered in dense forest. A path is winding its way through meadows near the creek on the other side.

Meander (2025).

(Unlike people who're associating a strong negative connotation with that word, I've always seen active meandering it as a strength, a never ending search and adaptation of one's course in changing environments […]

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B&W photo of a frozen mountain lake surrounded by steep, almost vertical rock faces and snowy mountain peaks. Only the tops are catching the last light, the rest in deep shade...

Last Light, Last Look Back (Vol.2)

Somewhat unexpectedly, even in the valley, we had the whole place pretty much to ourselves. Not quite the usual Easter weather, but the snow & ice always welcome and emphasizes the majestic scale/depth […]

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B&W photo of a large craggy rock face & mountain peak, partially snow covered and illuminated by the last evening light. The summit cross clearly visible. Near the bottom, in the foreground, a lower mountain pass/step, also snow covered and already in deep shade. Clear sky.

Last Light, Last Look Back...

(Lachenspitze, April 2025)

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

Wide-format B&W photo of a sloped mountain massif in the distance and a large rocky plateau in front, transitioning into forests further down the valley. The edge of a closed mountain ridge in the bottom-left corner.

Hoher Ifen (2023)

One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore […]

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B&W photo of a large wet slab of rock in the sand near the waterline and the silhouettes of some sea stacks/needles further out. Half of the sky is covered by a moving storm front moving south, creating an eerie light.

After The Storm

(Lone Ranch Beach, Oregon, 2019)

#MeerMittwoch #LandscapePhotography #Pacific #PNW #Oregon

B&W photo of the silhouettes of a small group of trees standing in a field in dense fog. A small path is curving towards them.

#MonochromeMonday

#LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Fog

Square-format high contrast B&W photo of blindingly bright beams of light shining through the trees in a misty forest.

Rays of hope...

#MorningWalk #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Forest #Light

Wide-format B&W photo of a large valley surrounded by majestic mountains with some of their peaks dusted in snow, large hanging side valleys between the mountains. The edge of a small village with its church tower visible in the bottom left corner. A group of larches standing even closer in the foreground to the right. Most of the valley is still in deep shade, only the higher up parts are already in bright sunlight. Contrails crisscross an otherwise clear sky, some of them already partially dispersed by the wind into thin cirrus sheets.

Early morning in Ötztal

(A sleepy and peaceful Sunday morning in October 2025, the view south-west over Längenfeld towards Hoher Kogel, 3296m)

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

Square format high contrast B&W photo of a large and very deep high alpine valley, looking down from a mountain pass around 800 meters above the valley floor. A small footpath with switchbacks through some forest is visible near the bottom. The opposite side of the valley is formed by a single massive rock face with jagged peaks & ridge line...

Höllental ❤️

(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path […]

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Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a slightly smaller kallitype print of a glacier surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains. Surrounding the print is a dark border of hand painted emulsion.

Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩

Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption […]

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Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a smaller kallitype print of a glacier surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains. Surrounding the print is a thick dark border of hand painted emulsion.

Share not only your successes but also your failures, they say... Latest 8x6" kallitype of my beloved friend Morteratsch. Printed before breakfast this AM...

It might not be immediately obvious in the thumbnail, but this is a good illustration of what […]

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B&W wide-format photo of a hilly landscape in layers of fog and a larger mountain rising up behind a major fog layer in the distance. Only its built-up summit part (with churches, TV tower and other buildings) is visible. Layers of forest and fields in the lower foothills in the foreground.

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)

(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)

#SilentSunday […]

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Wide-format B&W photo of a classic Dolomites landscape with steep couloir (still with some snow) going up between massive rock towers & needles, their tops slighly obscured by a layer of thick moody gray clouds.

Into The Couloir...

(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)

#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Dolomites #Alps #Mountains #Hiking

Phone picture of a 8x10" piece of paper with a slightly smaller kallitype print of a high alpine mountain landscape. The picture shows the view of deep valley with a long smooth glacial ridge leading up to snow covered peaks. A band of forest is running down the slopes in the foreground, still mostly in the shade, but a small area near the edge which is catching the morning sun.

Latest 8x6" toned kallitype print, fresh from the tray (well, from the drying line)... 🤩

(Kallitype is quite challenging in terms of balancing achieving deep blacks vs detail, so this scene took quite some tweaking to retain the details in the band of dark […]

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Wide-format B&W picture of a hunting stand in a snowy landscape, surrounded by heavy ground fog. The edge of a forest in the background. Fog drifting through the trees.

Frozen fog (Vol.2), no hunting today (thankfully)...

...another scene from the same walk as the previous image, a few days ago.

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #WinterWonderland #Fog #Forest

Wide-format B&W picture of a small group of trees standing in a clearing in the woods, engulfed by a thick layer of fog forming just above the snow cover on the ground. The edge of the surrounding forest in the background. Moody cloudy winter sky.

Frozen fog

...spontaneously forming all around us on our evening walk, as if by magic.

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #WinterWonderland #Fog #Forest

Photo of a 6x4" kallitype print of the photo in the OP of this thread.

Decided to make a kallitype print of this and think it suits this timeless nature even better...

#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography #Photography

B&W photo of a mountain landscape in the Swiss Alps, with dramatic clouds forming and shafts of light reaching down into the deep valley. The silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

Meeting the sublime

(A brief moment when the heavens briefly opened first for light, then for epic rain showers... Above Kandersteg, 2019)

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Switzerland #Light #CloudAppreciation #Hiking

B&W photo of a small dark footpath in the dense forest leading into the distance. The ground is frozen and snowfree, but all the tree branches are covered in a layer of frost, as if dipped in thick white paint.

Frozen forest

(From tonight's evening walk in the local woods...)

#SilentSunday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #WinterWonderland

Two 6x4" kallitype prints using slightly different negatives of the same image. The bottom one is slightly too dark and has very little detail in the shadows, the top one has slightly blown out highlights and a more grainy look.

"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell

Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points […]

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B&W photo of a moody winter landscape with dense forest on both sides of an empty snowed-in riverbed leading into the distance. Large mountains in the background, with one of the summits catching the last light. The mountains closer are all cut off by low hanging dark clouds descending into the valley.

Belated #MonochromeMonday / #MountainMonday: A moody winter day in the Ammergau Alps. A view down the snowed-in river bed of the Linder with the Notkarspitze summit catching the last light in the distance...

#LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

Black and white night-time shot of the entrance area of Timberline Lodge with a huge snowdrift up until the top of the roof (equivalent of 4 floors). The sky is completely black and the scene is only lit by the big flood lights installed.

Monday night dinner at The Shining...

(Literally... a snowed-in Timberline Lodge in winter of 2018, the drive up there very much like the scene in the movie, 2+ meters of snow on either side of the road and a huge snowdrift reaching up to the top of the roof […]

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High contrast black & white photo of an alpine mountain landscape and rugged ridge line in bright hazy evening light, seen from a summit cliff on said ridge. Incredible depth layering, god beams, lens flares. The slopes below the cliffs are covered in forest, in the background only visible as silhouettes.

The unforgettable evening light & hike on the day I resigned from my job back in 2021...

#MonochromeMonday #MountainMonday #BlackAndWhite #Photography #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

B&W photo of a craggy rocky mountain peak with several steep cliffs and a smooth grassy mountain pass curving further down on the right. Dramatic sky with clouds moving through the peaks and larger cumulus building up in the background.

Looking back at a dramatic Gehrenspitze and its pass (aka "Joch")...

Another close-up impression of the pass itself (and view in the opposite direction):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115050332753156722

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#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm […]

B&W photo of a majestic and rugged mountain massif on the other side of a very steep valley. The view is from the ridge/pass. The vertical rock faces/needles in the foreground and some parts further back are illuminated by the autumn afternoon sun. The rest is in semi-shade cast by a layer of clouds moving in. Some parts of the massif are showing distinct traces of former glacial activity. A grandiose view!

Update: The "Mountain Life" calendars are all gone (https://calendar.thi.ng but I'm considering doing another one (again non-2026 specific) with my black & white photography. See below and my #NoirCountry tag for some more examples. Will post more if/when […]

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