Sorry, only just seen your post, it’s on a viewing point created on top of the old Prince of Wales colliery site, Pontefract, on top of the slag heap. It doesn’t look it in the photos, but it’s an amazing view, especially for someone who has lived here 54 years (well, next door in Castleford) and never seen this view before.Where are you? There's a very post-industrial (coal?) look about it.
A few from recent trips to the Lakes.
Tarn Hows early morning by Tim, on Flickr
Fat Mans Agony! by Tim, on Flickr
The path goes between the detached pillar and the rock face. No problem for me
Lingmoor Tarn by Tim, on Flickr
A lovely and little-known tarn
Kentmere Valley by Tim, on Flickr
I think it's something to do with depth in the picture, a portrait format allows for a long leading line, mid-ground and distance, as in the Kentmere Valley picture above.Just proves that you take great landscape photos with the camera in portrait mode.
Were these done with your Nik scanner via VueScan by any chance?
(only asking as they look like the results from mine before I had it serviced)