Dream Big | Photo Lanscape Dunia

This particular morning, myself and 4 of my children hiked in the dark up to Dream Lake in RMNP for what I had hoped would be a glorious sunsrise. I have been to RMNP many times before, but mostly in the Fall when the skies tend to be blue and cloudless. So, needless to say, I have had my share of dissappointing images from here, but this morning would be different. I knew when I awoke and looked out the window, that the East was clear with scattered cloud cover in the West with an approaching storm that was scheduled to hit around lunch that day and stick around for the next couple of days. To our suprise, we had the place all to ourselves that morning as we witnessed one of the best sunrises I have seen in RMNP over Dream Lake

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.