This is an image I photographed a few months back while revisiting some areas in Northern Arizona. This is one of the many classic scenes of the American west. The mittens of monument valley and Merrick butte as they rise into the skies. Upon arrival to Monument Valley, I had felt heavy gusts of wind as I drove closer and closer. By the time I got inside the park I had felt like I had wasted all this time getting here. The winds just picked up and blew sand all over the place. I took a handful of photos from this vantage and decided it was best to try and head back home. It was either the best or worst decision I could have made depending on how you look at it. As soon as I left the entrance road and got onto the main highway, the sand was blowing across the road and making it disappear on and off. This sandstorm lasted about three hours and had stretched as from cameron to monument valley. I was glad I finally got out of it, but it was definitely one of the scariest drives home. I was glad I made it back safe, but will never know what might have happened that evening here.
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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