D A W N | Photo Lanscape Dunia

I spent a few days camping and Jeeping through Colorado with a few friends. We spent this evening up at Clear Lake in the San Juan Mountains. The wildflowers around the lake itself were lagging behind this year, so I did some exploring in the valley below the lake. Fortunately there was some decent patches of flowers throughout the area, but we ended the evening with pretty clear skies. Fearing the same for sunrise, I decided to get up early at around 3AM and head back down to the wildflowers I had scouted the night before. It was a bit windy, but I managed to get some breaks shortly before dawn, capturing this shot of a beautiful patch of Colorado Columbine.

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.