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Erebus
 Post subject: Landscapes
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What are your favourite landscapes (natural or urban)?

Here are mine:

1. Volcanoes - volcanic landscape with cones, lava flows, craters, calderas and crater lakes
2. Isolated islands (especially of volcanic origin)
3. Mountain landscapes covered with snow and glaciers
4. Empty beaches and wind-swept cliffs

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1. Abandoned places (rust covered industrial facilites, military objects, abandoned factories and mental hospitals - doing urbexing for some time).

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Likewise, deep in the mind of modern woman is the same hunter-gatherer calculator, too recently evolved to have changed much: strive to acquire a provider husband who will invest food and care in your children; strive to find a lover who can give those children first-class genes. Only if she is very lucky will they both be the same man . . . Men are to be exploited as providers of parental care, wealth and genes." - Matt Ridley "The Red Queen"

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 Post subject: Re: Landscapes
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Old buildings and downtown cores....pre 1940 for urban.

Rolling farmland (like we have here in southern Central Canada) AND ocean and mountains the likes of which near SF for rural.

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Forests. I like abandoned places too. I used to consider joining a group connected with exploration but my plans fell through.

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My current landscape image of the week:

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Ambrym volcano, Vanuatu, active lava lake inside Marum crater

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"There has been no genetic change since we were hunter-gatherers, but deep in the mind of modern man is a simple hunter-gatherer rule: strive to acquire power and use it to lure women who will bear heirs; strive to acquire wealth and use it to buy affairs with other men’s wives who will bear bastards . . . Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.

Likewise, deep in the mind of modern woman is the same hunter-gatherer calculator, too recently evolved to have changed much: strive to acquire a provider husband who will invest food and care in your children; strive to find a lover who can give those children first-class genes. Only if she is very lucky will they both be the same man . . . Men are to be exploited as providers of parental care, wealth and genes." - Matt Ridley "The Red Queen"

"Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn’t matter how brave you are, how reserved, or how much you’ve developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That’s when you stop laughing. In the end there’s just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end, there’s only death." - Houellebecq

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Cityscapes. Specifically at night. All the lights fascinate me, idk why. But I also love any view that you can see for miles and miles around. Mountain views for example, I could just set up a chair and stare into the abyss for hours.

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Damn!!! I was thinking about the OTHER type of landscapes! :wink:

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Lakes, streams, and boreal forests; lush tropical jungles; basically anything green and verdant for natural landscapes.

Some of my favorite cityscapes:
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Bern, Switzerland
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Dubrovnik, Italy
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Hong Kong, China
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Nice photos, Tich.

A bit of cosmic landscape.

Hyperion - the moon of Saturn and perhaps one of my favourite photographs ever.

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"There has been no genetic change since we were hunter-gatherers, but deep in the mind of modern man is a simple hunter-gatherer rule: strive to acquire power and use it to lure women who will bear heirs; strive to acquire wealth and use it to buy affairs with other men’s wives who will bear bastards . . . Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.

Likewise, deep in the mind of modern woman is the same hunter-gatherer calculator, too recently evolved to have changed much: strive to acquire a provider husband who will invest food and care in your children; strive to find a lover who can give those children first-class genes. Only if she is very lucky will they both be the same man . . . Men are to be exploited as providers of parental care, wealth and genes." - Matt Ridley "The Red Queen"

"Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn’t matter how brave you are, how reserved, or how much you’ve developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That’s when you stop laughing. In the end there’s just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end, there’s only death." - Houellebecq

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Erebus wrote:
Nice photos, Tich.

A bit of cosmic landscape.

Hyperion - the moon of Saturn and perhaps one of my favourite photographs ever.

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That's amazing.
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Some of my favorite landscapes include the southwest of the U.S. such as Monument Valley and the various canyons. Forests, especially around the fall season. Pristine snowscapes.
For Urban I like city skylines shot at night.
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I like this one, taken by someone in West Virginia.

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Volcanic islands:

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White Island (New Zealand)

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Easter Island (Rano Kau volcano)

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Kueishantao island (Taiwan)

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Bouvet Island - the most remote and inaccesible place on Earth

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Lopevi volcano (Vanuatu)

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Sarigan island (Mariana archipelago)

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Zavodovsky island (Antarctica)

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"There has been no genetic change since we were hunter-gatherers, but deep in the mind of modern man is a simple hunter-gatherer rule: strive to acquire power and use it to lure women who will bear heirs; strive to acquire wealth and use it to buy affairs with other men’s wives who will bear bastards . . . Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.

Likewise, deep in the mind of modern woman is the same hunter-gatherer calculator, too recently evolved to have changed much: strive to acquire a provider husband who will invest food and care in your children; strive to find a lover who can give those children first-class genes. Only if she is very lucky will they both be the same man . . . Men are to be exploited as providers of parental care, wealth and genes." - Matt Ridley "The Red Queen"

"Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn’t matter how brave you are, how reserved, or how much you’ve developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That’s when you stop laughing. In the end there’s just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end, there’s only death." - Houellebecq

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Erebus wrote:
Urban:

1. Abandoned places (rust covered industrial facilites, military objects, abandoned factories and mental hospitals - doing urbexing for some time).


Yes, I'm very much into urban decay type landscapes too.



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subnormal wrote:
Erebus wrote:
Urban:

1. Abandoned places (rust covered industrial facilites, military objects, abandoned factories and mental hospitals - doing urbexing for some time).


Yes, I'm very much into urban decay type landscapes too.



what about Urban Exploration? :)
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