Lost Lake and the Majestics | Photo Lanscape Dunia

What an adventure! I took a drive to Lost Lake with Gigi Peek to photograph the Milky Way over Mount Hood. Upon arrival, we ran into some of her friends and set-up for the light show that was coming from the heavens. There were about 10 people shooting at the lake through the night, including a man behind our larger group. Since people were trying to adjust settings in the dark, occasionally people would utilize their headlamp to look at their camera. Without any warning the guy behind us went off, shouting expletives about our lights and then storming off into the night. I'm thinking a simple please may have sufficed. In order to show the scale of this scene, I chose to use 5 vertically oriented photos to create a small panorama which allowed me to showcase the Milky Way over Mount Hood.

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.