Fleeting | Photo Lanscape Dunia

My wife is returning to work next week after a wonderfully-long maternity leave. We wanted to get in a nice road trip before she has to jump back into corporate life so we headed over to Suttle Lake near Sisters, Oregon for a couple of nights. We arrived in the middle of an unusual July rainstorm and when I woke up early the next morning I drove down to the end of the lake to catch the sunrise. The storm was over but clouds continued to stream overhead and I was lucky enough to grab 10 minutes of nice light before the sky was obscured. I used my Canon 5D Mark III with the 25mm TSE lens on my Gitzo tripod and RRS BH-55 ballhead. I used a 9-stop ND filter to drag the shutter to 30 seconds.

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.

Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, landscapes reflect the living synthesis of people and place vital to local and national identity. Landscapes, their character and quality, help define the self-image of a region, its sense of place that differentiates it from other regions. It is the dynamic backdrop to people’s lives.

The Earth has a vast range of landscapes including the icy landscapes of polar regions, mountainous landscapes, vast arid desert landscapes, islands and coastal landscapes, densely forested or wooded landscapes including past boreal forests and tropical rainforests, and agricultural landscapes of temperate and tropical regions.

Landscape may be further reviewed under the following specific categories: landscape art, cultural landscape, landscape ecology, landscape planning, landscape assessment and landscape design. The activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land is named Landscaping.