Click here to purchase prints (Please view on black to really 'be there'...) South Sister from Sparks Lake · Deschutes National Forest · Bend · Oregon · USA South Sister takes center stage in a beautiful sunset finale to a long mid-summer spell away from home. After an excruciatingly long drought with picturesque mountain sunsets, everything came together just enough to hopefully signal the end of my terrible cloudless-sky mojo. Aside from the occasional canoe moseying through the scene and (mostly) idle threats from the buzzing mosquitos, it was as peaceful a moment as I'd experienced in several weeks, just standing there watching the brilliant color slowly unfold in sky and water. In more ways than one, it was just what the doctor ordered. No--it was just what the doctor needed.
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.
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