Here's another one from my trip to Oregon last week. This is the beautiful and enigmatic Sparks Lake outside Bend, Oregon. It can be quite challenging shooting this because it sits in a caldera with it's own micro-climate. I visited this location twice and on both occasions, it was heavily clouded over. On my last morning in Oregon, I decided to risk it again and vist the lake and was greeted by this magical sunrise. Granted there were no clouds in the sky but it still is an amazingly pretty place to behold with the rolling morning mist!
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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