Favorite landscape locations

<p>Where are your favorite locations for landscape photography?</p>

<p>Hawaii. From late October thru April. No snow, warm, weekly farmers market, etc, etc,. I'm leaving next week ! ! Aloha, Bill</p><div></div>

<p>Tennessee, I think, followed closely by Arizona...</p><div></div>

<p>The park where I mountain bike every day near the Mississippi River in St. Paul, MN: Crosby Farm Park. Its basically anywhere I am I will look for landscape opportunities.</p><div></div>

<p>At this time of year, I like to hike in Killarney on the north shore of the Georgian Bay. We try to make the trip every autumn to enjoy the fall colours. Newfoundland is on of my all time favourite places for landscape photography. Hoping to get out there next summer.</p>

<p>the image</p><div></div>

<p>Bryce Canyon. Infinite possibilities, all terrific.</p>

<p>For those of us over the pond from north America, the remoter reaches of north-west Scotland are quite impressive.</p><div></div>

<p>The Teton mountain range, especially the western, Idaho, side, which is close to home. Also Death Valley, and, like Bill, Hawaii.</p><div></div>

<p>It is hard to beat autumn in New England, isn't it?</p><div></div>

<p>Glenn, go to the Dolomiti in the Italian Alps, much greater tetons...<br>

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1055844</p>

<p>Wherever I am located. Many years ago I thought you'd have to travel to take cool landscape images. Then I met Jim Brandenburg who takes amazing photographs from "flat and boring" Minnesota. Now I simply enjoy being outside, having a good time, and taking pictures.<br>

Though I have to admit: Utah and Iceland are hard to beat.</p>

<p>Here's a shot from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, just above Denver, Colorado:</p>

<p><a title="Bucks & Mountains, What More Could You Want?" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8139/29934808722_843edd7146_c.jpg" alt="Bucks & Mountains, What More Could You Want?" width="800" height="534" /></a></p>

<p>I'm usually there for the wildlife, but it's a great place for one of the best examples of American long-grass prairie, here at the beginning of The Great Plain. Of course, the Rocky Mountains in the background and mule deer bucks in the FG doesn't hurt.</p>

<p>Didier - I would love to go to the Dolomites someday. The mountains look beautiful, and, like the Tetons, the skiing is supposed to be great.</p>

<p>This is also a great place for cliff climbing, with a lot of paths equipped with cables ("via ferrata"), if contrary to me you are bold enough for this kind of experience.</p>

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Leaping Tiger Gorge, Lijiang, Yunnan<br>

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Wudang Mountains<br>

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From Mountain Resort, Chengde<br>

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Peggys Cove, N. Scotia</p>

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Fuchun River, Zhejiang<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/12196870-md.jpg" alt="Flying mist of Mount Lu" /><br>

Lushan, Jiangxi<br>

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Shaolin Temple, Henan<br>

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Lake of Thousand Islands</p>

<p>One favorite is the Town owned park just up the street from where I live that fortunately my wife and our dog enjoy as well.</p><div></div>

<p>Stuck is the word, or enlightened when I think of all the time I've spent in Northern Ca. I say stuck because I can't get enough of the meeting of land and sea in the places of Point Lobos, Point Reyes National Seashore and the Northern Coast in general. I have found that going back there repeatedly, is a way to see how to study light and how it works best within the particular subject matter. Of course the scale on that point slides, but it amazes me how the variances of light affect the form of known objects. It is now quite obvious to me that a trip to Ireland, Scotland, England is a must as the essence of what I'm looking for is in great abundance across the pond in that region.</p>

<p>Jon, fine example of a beautiful and simple landscape, built with just two main lines. However to me this kind of minimalist composition works better in B&W:</p><div></div>

<p>Zion National Park, Utah</p><div></div>

<p>Some of you may have visited these special places as well:</p>

<p>Natural landscapes (or that part of occupied natural landscapes without settlements):</p>

<ul>

<li>Atlantic coastline in USA and Canada north of Bar Harbour Maine</li>

<li>Canadian shield mountains and river coastline in Charlevoix Quebec</li>

<li>Mountains and rivers from quiet roads in the area between central and southern France</li>

<li>Lake district in NW England</li>

<li>West coast Newfoundland</li>

<li>Tuscany</li>

</ul>

<p>Occupied natural landscapes</p>

<ul>

<li>Farming villages in central south Quebec (along the Saint Lawrence river)</li>

<li>Magdalene Islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence</li>

<li>Picturesque wineries in France, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec</li>

<li>Tuscany</li>

</ul>

<p>City landscapes</p>

<ul>

<li>Squares of London and Savannah</li>

<li>Upper and lower towns of Quebec City</li>

<li>Gagetown village, New Brunswick</li>

<li>St-Johns, Newfoundland</li>

<li>Arrondissements 1 to 6, Paris</li>

<li>Lucca and Florence</li>

</ul>

 

<p>"Mountains and rivers from quiet roads in the area between central and southern France": Haute Ubaye (http://www.photo.net/photo/18284462), Haute Tinée (http://www.photo.net/photo/18080369), Queyras (http://www.photo.net/photo/17450642&size=lg); very much underdeveloped by French standards<br>

"Arrondissements 1 to 6, Paris": Luxembourg garden (http://www.photo.net/photo/17820456). Good for street photography, plenty of parisian aborigenes, and a lot of american students.</p>

<p>Aw shucks, gee whilickers, Captain Landscape,<br /> "The best place for landscape is wherever you are with a camera and a little imagination."</p>

<p>to those of us from Kansas,</p>

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<p>"There's no place like home."</p>

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<p>I quite like national parks with a little bit of water and maybe a few mountain areas. I also think cities provide good opportunities for landscape shots or cityscapes.</p>