Welcome back! This is Part 2 of our March Time challenge, featuring another set of incredible submissions from our community.
If you missed Part 1, you can explore even more inspiring entries and see how photographers interpreted the theme of Time in unique and creative ways.
You can also follow us on Instagram at @the_luminous_landscape, where we’re showcasing selected submissions and celebrating the vision of this growing community.
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And don’t forget, April’s challenge is now open. As spring arrives for our North American friends, we’re embracing the changing season and the fresh perspectives it brings:
CHALLENGE 1: WEATHER IN MOTION
Shoot a landscape during a weather change – storms approaching or clearing. Capture that electric moment when the sky can’t make up its mind.
CHALLENGE 2: SAME PLACE, DIFFERENT SEASON
Photograph the same location across different seasons. This could be the start of a series – or add to one you’ve already begun. Show us how time transforms a place.
We’ll stop accepting April submissions on April 25th. Send your images to [email protected]
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Larry Angier
“SSgt. Francis Taphorn, U.S. Army (retired), had called my answering machine many times to get my cellphone number as he didn’t want to leave me a message. When we eventually connected, he wished for a photo to leave his family to remember his proud service as a Tank Commander during WWII and serving in Africa, Italy, and Germany, serving in the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. When I arrived to photograph him, he was in his dress uniform, which still fit, complete with several battle medals, the Silver Star, and a Purple Heart from injuries he sustained in combat. ‘Frank,’ as he was known, lived in my community for 80 years. When he passed away at 99 years of age in 2019, I was content that he chose my photo for his obituary.”
Why we love it: Frank tells a story.
Larry Angier
“SSgt. Francis Taphorn, U.S. Army (retired), had called my answering machine many times to get my cellphone number as he didn’t want to leave me a message. When we eventually connected, he wished for a photo to leave his family to remember his proud service as a Tank Commander during WWII and serving in Africa, Italy, and Germany, serving in the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. When I arrived to photograph him, he was in his dress uniform, which still fit, complete with several battle medals, the Silver Star, and a Purple Heart from injuries he sustained in combat. ‘Frank,’ as he was known, lived in my community for 80 years. When he passed away at 99 years of age in 2019, I was content that he chose my photo for his obituary.”
Why we love it: Legend camera – nice score!
Ray Butler
“‘Comet, Noctilucent Clouds, and Star Trails’. It shows circumpolar stars trailing over time, as the midsummer twilight sky slowly turns, above bogland and post-glacial boulders in the west of Ireland. The main features are actually two celestial visitors: the bright Comet NEOWISE 2020 F3, hovering over a spectacular display of silvery, flowing noctilucent clouds. Their transient nature adds another sense of time. Fuji X-A3, Samyang 12mm f/2, ISO 400.”
Why we love it: The feeling.
Alan Johnston
“For the March Show and Tell I’m sending through three images with the theme of ‘time as instantaneous’ – using ultra-fast shutter speeds all the gorgeous detail of such incredible transience is gifted. In two of the photos there is the ‘drawn-glass’ effect of backwash waves meeting incoming waves at the perfect harmonic distance. If the distance between the two waves is too great one will break first, too close and they roll over each other – but at the harmonic spacing the outgoing backwash wave is explosively launched into the air. You can see the bodysurfers are actually riding this back out to sea.”
Why we love it: The detail – we can almost feel the ocean spray.
Josh Bowers
Why we love it: Looks like a sad place.
Patrick Malone
“These are marble steps inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa.”
Why we love it: Humans moving over time.
Peter Oosthuizen
“A flight of Sacred Ibis flying to their roost at the end of a day’s feeding.”
Why we love it: The color, the detail, that feeling of sunset.
Chuck Derus
“Here’s my take on March’s Challenge: Time. It’s a several hour exposure in Coyote Gulch featuring star trails with Polaris pierced by a satellite.”
Why we love it: Incredible patience – feels otherworldly.
Dominick Mistretta
Why we love it: Incredibly simple and poignant!
Kieran Brogan
“The rotating Fresnel lens sends a beam twice on the tenth second. Marking time for mariners. Photo was taken with a Fujifilm X100V 1/2 sec f/2 ISO 6400.”
Why we love it: Framing, color, night exposure, beacon of light.
Wayne Steffes
Why we love it: Finding the abstract.
Brian Woolf
“An old Carousel sign on Surf Ave. in Coney Island, Brooklyn. By 2007, Coney Island was a very sad old park, still alive and kicking, busy in the summer but very rundown.”
Why we love it: You can feel the age.
Dave Barton
“Here is my submission for March – freezing a bit of the action at a point-to-point race in the Cotswolds. Or perhaps a ‘passage of moments’? I left the shadow only with the horse on right, feeling that it acted like a period at the end of the sentence. Had I kept the shadows on the first two, strictly speaking, they would cast onto the others which, of course, could not have existed.”
Why we love it: The concept and execution.
John Manger
“Time, ….seconds either way, I would have missed the moment of this sunrise.”
Why we love it: Glorious!
Norvin Knight
“Passage of time”
Why we love it: Movement – soft and smooth.
Matt Kaarma
Why we love it: Framing. Time has stopped.
Don Owers
“This abandoned jetty was one of the earliest images I captured when I first took a serious interest in landscape photography about ten years ago. Thanks for LL – always interesting and stimulating.”
Why we love it: So Dreamy. The colors, the mood, the story.
Craig Toms
Why we love it: The textures and the colors – very visceral.
Bruce Kushnick
“I shot this during the Halloween parade NYC”
Why we love it: Variety.
April’s Challenge: Spring & Seasons
Spring is here for our North American friends. Show us change.
Submissions close April 25th. Send your images to
Larry Angier
Larry Angier
Nevada Northern Railway yards, East Ely, Nev.
Ray Butler
Ireland
Alan Johnston
Currumbin Beach, Australia
Alan Johnston
Currumbin Beach, Australia
Alan Johnston
Currumbin Beach, Australia
Alan Johnston
Currumbin Beach, Australia
Josh Bowers
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
Patrick Malone
Pisa, Italy
Peter Oosthuizen
Knysna, South Africa
Chuck Derus
Coyote Gulch
Dominick Mistretta
Kieran Brogan
St. John’s Point Lighthouse, Killough County Down, N. Ireland
Wayne Steffes
Wayne Steffes
Wayne Steffes
Wayne Steffes
Brian Woolf
Surf Ave., Coney Island, Brooklyn
Dave Barton
Cotswolds
John Manger
Ceres, Victoria, Australia
Norvin Knight
Matt Kaarma
Don Owers
Abandoned Jetty
Craig Toms
Craig Toms
Craig Toms
Bruce Kushnick
New York City
Bruce Kushnick
New York City
Bruce Kushnick
New York City
Bruce Kushnick
New York City
Bruce Kushnick
New York City
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