The most beautiful places in the world?

Alaska: majestic mountains, expansive lanscape, bears of all kind.

Australia: variety of climate and geography, Great Barrier Reef

Africa: animals of all sizes, diversity of cultures and traditions

Western part of the US: Yellowstone, Teton, Glacier, Zion, Olympic

Anywhere else you call home.

These are not listed in order.

 

1) Port Campbell national Park (12 Apostles), Australia

 

2) Bryce Canyon national park, USA

 

3) Fox Glacier, New Zealand

 

4) Kyoto/ Nara, Japan

 

5) Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

 

 

Definitely Antarctica would be the best of all for me from what I have heard. I met a station leader at Macquarie island (Sub Antarctic Island) last year. I haven't been there as yet but definitely will be some stage!!!!

Taj Mahal as the sun rises

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One of my favorite TV commercials was the one for Fuji film which showed several great photos being taken in a simple wet parking lot.

 

Having said that there is no place better than SW British Columbia. There is everything from marine life and wild, wind swept coasts to high peaks surrounded by ice caps. Also every moderate temperature climate from rain forest to semi-desert.

 

Of course since I live there I may be just a bit biased!

Not necessarily in order, but some of the places that have most impressed me over the years...<br>

<br>

- Yosemite NP<br>

- Zion NP<br>

- South Island, New Zealand<br>

- Great Barrier Reef, Australia<br>

- Angkor Wat, Cambodia<br>

- Cape Town, South Africa<br>

- Okavango Delta, Botswana<br>

- Lake Como, Italy<br>

- The view from my hotel room in Ravello, Italy (Amalfi coast)<br>

- Santorini Island, Greece<br>

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I would probably pick Yosemite as really the most beautiful, but I would put the Okavango Delta as the place I would most like to return to...

Craggy Dome on the Blue Ridge parkway in June is about as good as it gets.

 

Jason T

 

www.bluemtnphoto.com

Assuming you mean the most beautiful for NATURE photography:<BR>

1) South America<BR>2) North America<BR>3)Africa (including Madagascar)<BR>4) Asia<BR>5) Australia (including New Guinea).<P>The order of the last 3 depends on what you like to shoot - wildlife vs. landscapes. But South America has everything.<P>On the other hand, if you want to include people and human culture, I'd put Asia at the top, maybe add Europe and drop Australia or North America. Anyway, they're all pretty beautiful.<P>Karl Lehmann <a href="http://www.lostworldarts.com/new_page_3.htm">Lost World Arts</a>

<p>For nature photography, though not necessarily wilderness:</p>

 

<ol>

<li>South West Tasmania</li>

<li>All high country in South Island, New Zealand</li>

<li>Zanskar in India</li>

<li>Kerala and Goa States, India</li>

<li>Patagonia</li>

</ol>

<p>See it while it lasts...global warming is a serious threat to many of the places we have collectively cited...</p>

Not in particular order:

 

Dallas Divide, Colorado at peak aspen color in the fall

 

Snake River overlook at Grand Tetons at sunrise

 

Dolomites, Italy

 

Lauterbrunen Valley, Switzerland

 

Grand Canyon during a spring thunder storm

How about 30 min. from your doorstep? Remember what John Shaw said: "Photography is more time dependent than place dependent." (May not be word-for-word exact, but the essence is correct). This is really one of the best pieces of photographic advice I've ever received!

I seriously doubt there are more than just a few rich forum members that have the actual experience to answer such a question. Our planet is far too huge and one only just has so much time in a lifetime to explore and visit. Even if one is so lucky rich one never needs to work haha. On the other hand many might provide names of places they've seen in books, movies, or pictures, but that isn't something of much value versus actual experiences. There are many well acclaimed scenic locations that are not so easily captured on film. If you start another thread limiting the scope to single continents, particularly North America, you are much more likely to get useful answers.

I think it's more likely that someone has seen the world because he or she has travelled for work, than travelled for leisure.

I can't resist...

 

In no particular order, these are the most beautiful places that I have seen:

 

-Bali

-Lanikai Beach on Oahu

-British Columbia and Alberta (home!)

-The countryside south of London, England

I'm not quite prepared to say it's the "most beautiful," but I'd say Olympic National Park in Washington is the most amazing, the richest. Literally within a few minutes drive you can see gorgeous temperate rain forests, wild and rocky beaches and alpine mountain scenery.

Huangshan (The Yellow Mountain) and Guilin in China.

Hong Kong harbor at night.

New England in autumn.

Swiss Alps

Honorable mentions: Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Banff & Jasper National Park，Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Paris ...

These are the most photogenic places I have personally photographed in no particular order. Like others I don't think you can tell until you've been yourself.

 

San Juan Mountains,Colorado in fall; The Oregon Coast; The Highlands of Scotland; the west coast of Ireland from Galway to Donegal;

 

If it wasn't the Nature forum and I therefore had more options, I may well choose the following instead.

 

The "Crete" area of southern Tuscany; New York; Trinidad in Cuba; Venice; Villages of Yucatan, Mexico.

1. Norway.

2. More Norway

3-5(10). Anything else

My top five<P>

<ul>

<li>Huangshan

<li>Yangshuo

<li>Santorini

<li>West Lake

<li>Lake Louise, Alberta

</ul>

I don't know how I missed this thread last year. It's great. I would like to mention two places no-one has said so far.

 

For landscapes, I have to say the most beautiful place I have seen was the Na Pali Coast on Kauai. Unfortunately, the one time I was there, my camera took a swim at a nude beach ;-) (long story) so I came away with almost no photos.

 

For wildlife, I have to say the Galapagos Islands, the most exotic locale I have ever been.

 

For a reasonable combination of both, the only two places I can think of at the moment are Yellowstone and Costa Rica, even though I came away from Costa Rica without tons of great photos. I just loved the place, as I did Yellowstone.

In no particular order,

 

1. Southcentral Alaska, Kenai Fjords National Park. An icefield that will transport you to the ice age after a walk along a glacier upon alpine treasures like roseroot and Kamchatka rockcress.

 

2. New Hampshire's White Mountains, particularly the presidential range, where bright white quartz peeps up through densely green moss and cairns are mottled with iridescent lichens.

 

3. Mount Kenya. The gothic, rocky buttresses of this mountain slice through the atmosphere, the slopes are steep and vertiginous, and the flora are from another world.

 

4. Peru. This is a beautiful country, with the Inca's exquisite masonry, deep chasms, lush cloud forests, Lake Titicaca -- the inkwell of all blue -- and a variety of cultural aesthetics that fit perfectly with the sublime environment.

 

5. The Hudson River Valley. With it's golden-feathered grass, autumnal foliage, deeply-weathered, ancient mountains, and mighty river, I never tire of its awesome presence in the world.

 

(I also loved Kauai, Montana, Wyoming, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Vermont, The Finger Lakes, and the Yucatan.

Min Wong where is this place????

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Min Wong, Feb 02, 2005; 04:40 a.m.

 

Can you list 5 places you think are the most beautiful in the world for photography? From number 1 to number 5. Let's share our view.

 

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I liked Jasper National Park so much, I created a website about it: <a href=http://www.jasperjournal.com>Jasper National Park Journal</a>.

 

Vancouver, BC, Canada, New York City and Barcelona, Spain all have a certain beauty to them, a different kind of beauty compared to the other places everyone mentioned.<div></div>

<p>Hello Min,<br>

If you list the MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD then surely <strong>Nainital</strong> is one of them.<br>

<strong>"Nainital"</strong> is a <em><strong>glittering jewel in the Himalyan necklace</strong> </em> , blessed with scenic natural spledour and varied natural resources. <br /> <br /> The Lake District of India ‘ Nainital ‘ is in the State of Uttaranchal, India, Nainital occupies a unique place. Known for its salubrious climate and scenic beauty, the town is a popular health resort and attracts tourists around the year. <br /> <br /> The town is rich in scenic setting, service infrastructure and landscape perspectives where people from other parts of the country and even outside go for stay and excursions around the year.<br>

<br /> <img src="http://www.nainitaltourism.com/Chandan_Nokia_N95.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="483" /><br>

Please visit the photo gallery section of Nainital.<br /> <br /> http://www.nainitaltourism.com/pho.html</p>

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<p>Kind Regards<br /> <br /> Chandan Bisht</p><div></div>

<p>5 of the most beatiful places I have seen:<br>

Arches National Park<br>

Zion National Park<br>

Mt St Helens 3 years after it blew<br>

The Washington Coast in the La Push area<br>

The Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota<br>

There are many others, but this will do for now.</p>

<p>5 of the most beatiful places I have seen:<br /> <br /> Nainital in India<br /> <br /> Interlaken in Switzerland<br /> <br /> Bangor in Wales (Though whole Wales is beautiful) Scotland is also beautiful but lot of racism there so wont count it.<br /> <br /> Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam (Tulip Garden)<br /> <br /> Country Side of England (esp. outskirts of West Midlands and way to Leeds from London)<br /> <br /> Would like to add Republic of Ireland (possibly the most beautiful place in whole Europe) not (Northern Ireland)<br /> <br /> Kind regards<br /> <br /> Chandan Bisht</p>