Beauty Before the Fires | Photo Lanscape Dunia

Whim, Inspired By Desire. I know I said i'd share a panorama with the lightning strikes. But I never caught the top of the rainbow for it. It wouldn't be any better than this panorama I made before I set up for lightning anyways. At this point the rainbow was at its fullest. Well, before it turned pink that is. I let me friend Alex McIntosh use my tripod so he could try to get shots of the lightning too. I was ok with missing the pink for this shot. I needed to give my camera a break as this is 14 shots at 18mm with my cropped body, and my camera reaallly started to slow down. I tried a few times to get this panorama. I didn't think I captured it. I hiked down the rim a bit to get this perspective. I've never been to this side of the lake before so im rather excited about the composition! I need to go back soooooooon!!!

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.