Glorious Sunburst | Photo Lanscape Dunia

Glorious Sunburst Peak reflects in Cerulean Lake in British Columbia's Assiniboine Provincial Park. Although Mount Assiniboine is the park's namesake, I fell in love with Sunburst: A powerful and imposing mountain, rising straight out of Cerulean Lake, manifesting itself in all its beauty when dressed in intense golden light by the setting sun. I took this image while looking for promising compositions for two of our Canadian Rockies Workshop participants, Kristen and Nicolette. The remainder of the group had climbed up to the Nublet with my colleague Paul Zizka for panoramic views and night time photography of Assiniboine and Sunburst. I am kind of glad that Kristen and Nicolette decided to stay at the 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.