A full 360 by 180 view of the night sky over Lake Clearwater in Ashburton Lakes. We often see only part of the Milky way in photos, especially in panoramic shots it appears as an arc. Shooting it this way gives us a clear undistorted view. This being the southern hemisphere features the small and large Magellanic clouds, the bright lights of Christchurch 120kms away and a bizarre and relatively rare phenomenon of gravity waves causing lines of colour in the air glow. This is a stitch of 33 frames taken at 24mm on a canon 6d.
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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