Cool landscapes. The most beautiful landscapes. A lot of photo pictures! Red Beach, Panjin, China

Friday:). I don't want to talk about floods, violence, wars and drug addicts. Let's take a better look at the amazingly beautiful nature photography.

(46 photos total)

1. Tourists walking around the Peter and Paul Fortress in Russia are reflected in a puddle on April 7, 2006.

2. Tourists visit the famous old windmills in the village of Campo de Criptana in the Castile-La Mancha region of central Spain on April 16, 2006. La Mancha windmills are mentioned in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,

3.Flying over the city of Bristol, during the Bristol International Balloon Festival, in the southwest of England on August 8, 2006. The annual event lasts four days and includes concerts, celebrations and massive balloon launches.

4. A Bedouin rides camels in the desert near a tourist resort in Sharm el-Sheikh on August 22, 2006.

5. Red leaves in a vineyard, on a sunny autumn day, near Weberlingen on Lake Constance on October 26, 2006.

6. A young man launches a model airplane on an autumn evening in Dornbirn, about 20 km (13 miles) from Lake Constance November 14, 2006.

7. In the fall, at sunset, a young man with a model airplane. Dornbirn, 20 km (13 miles) near Lake Constance on November 14, 2006.

9. A girl walks through thick fog in Leicester, central England, December 21, 2006. The fog has led passengers at many of the country's airports to fear that they will not be able to join their families overseas on Christmas Eve.

11.Hurry tourists along the frozen river Tournai in Jukkasjärvi, above the Arctic Circle, in northern Sweden, December 24, 2006.

12. A man looks out to sea near beach houses as a cold front covers Muisinberg in Cape Town on August 12, 2003.

14. Livestock walk through fog and snow in the North Downs near Maidstone, Kent, in the south-east of England, January 25, 2007.

15. A couple near Lake Michigan at 6 degrees Fahrenheit (-14 degrees Celsius) at dawn in Chicago, February 2, 2007.

16. Runners are not afraid of bad weather, they continue their run in St. James's Park, London, February 8, 2007.

17. Lanterns along a street during a celebration in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, February 21, 2007.

18. St Paul's Cathedral is seen from the window of a restaurant at the Tate Modern in London on March 15, 2007.

19. People look at the waters of the Neva, which carry ice floes upstream to the Gulf of Finland, in St. Petersburg March 22, 2007. Temperatures, in Russia's second largest city, hit 12 degrees Celsius above zero (54 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.

20. A rowboat and clouds reflect on Loch Lynn in Fort William, West Scotland, May 12, 2007.

21. A couple stands on the Volga embankment in Samara, about 1,000 km (620 mi) southeast of Moscow on May 18, 2007.

22. Icebergs reflecting in calm waters at the mouth of the Jakobshavn fjord near Ilulissat. Photo taken on May 15, 2007.

23. A father and daughter look at a huge lantern during the lantern exhibition, which was attended by over 500 participants. The exhibition took place in a park in Guangzhou, the capital of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, on September 5, 2003. The Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, falls on September 11 this year.

24. Ice skating after the grand opening of the ice rink at Somerset House, London, November 26, 2003

Tourists enjoy the sunset on Kovalam Beach in the southern Indian state of Kerala October 1, 2005. Kerala is one of the most popular tourist destinations.

26. George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River and connects New York (right) with New Jersey, visible early in the morning through fog. Photo from Fort Lee, NJ, January 30, 2006.

27. A pair of swans reflects in a lake in the southern Bavarian city of Kochel, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Munich on a warm autumn day, October 14, 2005.

29. Dark clouds and a lone bird above the Millennium Wheel in London, July 8, 2004. The cold snap and worsening weather have led to problems with transport and communications in England and Wales.

30. Indonesian villagers ride their bicycles across a bamboo bridge at dawn outside the city of Yogyakarta, Central Java July 24, 2004. The bridge was built by residents of nearby communities.

32. An Australian holds a candle on Kuta Beach during a vigil on the Indonesian island of Bali October 12, 2005. Bali on Wednesday celebrated the third anniversary of the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, mostly tourists, including 88 Australians.

33. Frost-covered trees amid vineyards in the Alsace countryside near Strasbourg, France, January 11, 2006.

34. People on Primrose Hill watch the sun set over London November 16, 2003. Many Londoners have come out to enjoy the cool but sunny weather ahead of daylight savings with the onset of winter.

35. A man enjoys a sunny spring day near the southern German city of Lindau, May 8, 2005.

36. A man walks through a snow-covered park in Tervuren near Brussels on February 27, 2004. slowed down traffic in the area and caused delays or cancellations of flights at international airports.

38. Cathedral of the Resurrection-on-Blood is reflected in the melting ice of the Griboyedov Canal in St. Petersburg, March 10, 2004. The cathedral was built on the site of the assassination of Alexander II, who was killed by a bomb thrown by a student in March 1881.

39. Lights from the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan reflect on the East River after sunset on November 17, 2004.

40. Sunset on Uluru (Ayers Rock), about 350 kilometers (220 mi) southwest of the Australian city of Alice Springs April 19, 2004. 40 years ago Uluru, which belongs to the indigenous people of Australia, the Anangu people, was visited by about 1000 tourists annually. Since then, about 400,000 visitors come here every year.

42 Tourists inspect the sand dunes in the Moorish desert near the city of Nouakchott July 29, 2005. Western countries will support the military junta that initiated a bloodless coup in Mauritania, if it does ensure democratic elections are held.

43 A woman walks with an umbrella along the coastline of Lanikai Beach at sunrise in Kailua, Hawaii on May 28, 2004. Hanauma Bay, about 20 miles south of Lanikai Beach, topped Hawaii's annual list of the best beaches by Florida ecologist Stephen Lieserman. The beaches of Hawaii took precedence over the beaches of Florida, although there are a large number of them in the rating.

44. The British Parliament building during a heavy rain in London on January 17, 2005.

45. A Sri Lankan resident holds an umbrella as he drives past a bay in Kalmunai city on the east coast of Sri Lanka January 19, 2005.

46. ​​Giant waves at the Cape Town breakwater in Bay Harbor, August 27, 2005. The waves reached an estimated height of nine meters. Photo taken on August 27, 2005.

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Often, when you look at colorful photographs from different parts of the planet, it is difficult to believe that these landscapes really exist. And therefore, I really want to visit them all and see for myself that they are really so beautiful.

site has collected for you the most impressive places on the planet. You might want to reconsider your vacation plans!

Wave, Arizona, USA

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

Uyuni Salt Flats is a dried-up salt lake in the south of the Altiplano desert plain, Bolivia. Its inner part is covered with a layer of sodium chloride 2-8 meters thick. During the rainy season, the salt marsh is covered with a thin layer of water and turns into the world's largest mirror surface.

Fly Geyser, Nevada, USA

Fly is an artificial geyser located in the northwest of Nevada. It appeared thanks to the intervention of people: in 1916, a well was drilled in these places, but a geothermal pocket was accidentally drilled. In 1964, boiling water began to penetrate the surface, creating an unusual landscape from minerals dissolving in water.

Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

Hitachi Seaside National Park in eastern Japan is an amazing example of landscape design. It is known for its colorful change of seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own flower covers. By the end of spring, millions of American forget-me-nots are blooming in the park.

Red Beach, Panjin, China

The beach under the city of Panjin is famous all over the world for its unusual red color. The fact is that the bank of the Liaohe River is dotted with seaweed. From April to May, they are of the usual green color, and only by September, dying off, gradually become bright red.

Lake in Glacier National Park, USA

The lake of divine beauty is located in the Rocky Mountains in the American state of Montana, on the border with Canada.

Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland

The Giant's Causeway is about 40,000 interconnected basalt columns that appeared after an ancient volcanic eruption. The tops of the columns begin at the foot of the cliff and gradually disappear below the surface of the sea. The tallest of the columns is about 12 meters high.

Rainbow Mountains, China

100 million years ago, there was a huge basin on the site of the mountains, which gradually dried up due to high temperatures. The sediments that remained at the bottom of the pool, upon contact with the air, turned into interesting red and copper colors.

Maldives

The Maldives has over a thousand paradise islands scattered in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. Each of the islands can be called a small miracle that has preserved the pristine freshness and purity of nature.

Badab-e-Surt, Iran

Badab-e-Surt is a natural wonder located in the north of Iran. This place consists of stepped terraces made of a special breed - travertine. The orange color of the terrace was obtained due to the large amount of iron oxide.

Giant Buddha, China

The Maitreya Buddha statue in Leshan, China is one of the tallest Buddha statues on Earth. Its height is 71 meters, the height of the head is almost 15 meters, the span of the shoulders is almost 30 meters, the length of the finger is 8 meters, the length of the toe is 1.6, the length of the nose is 5.5 meters.

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Natron is a salt and alkaline lake located in northern Tanzania. Its depth does not exceed 3 meters. Due to the microorganisms that live in the lake, the salt crust that covers it sometimes turns red and pink.

Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA

The canyon was so named due to the reddish-red walls that resemble the skin of an antelope. It represents giant cracks in sandy rocks created by the action of water and wind.

Rice fields, Indonesia

Rice terraces in Bali, Indonesia, are stunning with their picturesqueness. Seemingly simple rice sprouts, but how artistically planted. It is not for nothing that the rice fields and terraces on this island attract artists and attract tourists.

Cappadocia, Turkey

Darvaza, Turkmenistan


- a genre of fine art, the main task of which is to display the surrounding nature both in its original form and in a modified form by man to one degree or another. Since photography is a type of fine art, landscape photography fully complies with this definition. The main pictorial center of landscape photography is nature in all its manifestations.

Of course, landscape as a genre appeared long before the invention of photography - in painting. And honed for centuries artistic means landscape images formed a number of necessary conditions for this genre of photography. Linear perspective , tonal (aerial) perspective, optical perspective,frame composition , light space and Colour - these are the main characteristics of landscape photography, which can not only very accurately convey the state of the surrounding nature at a certain point in time, but also highlight semantic center picture without the use of additional manipulative techniques. And despite the fact that in landscape photography the presence of people or animals in the frame is allowed, they are clearly assigned the role of staffage - an element of the landscape that exists to revive the image and plays a secondary role in this image.

In essence, landscape photography is documentary photography about nature. By the type of space depicted, landscape photography can be terrestrial, water, astronomical and meteorological. Terrestrial landscape photography depicts landscape, relief and vegetation, and it can be rural and urban.

Water landscape (seascape, marina) Is an image of the water (sea) element.

Astronomical landscape photography depicts the heavens (stars, constellations, the sun, the moon),

and meteorological - weather and precipitation (fog, rain, clouds, tornado, etc.).

According to the way of depicting space, landscape photography can be camera and panoramic. In this case, camera photography does not imply a narrow circle of viewers, but expresses a purely technical characteristic - a small, narrow angle of view of the imaged space.

Panoramic landscape photography is the exact opposite - this is a photograph, the viewing angle of which can often exceed 180 degrees.

By the degree of perception by the viewer, the landscape can be, by analogy with music, minor or major. Tragic or solemn. Sad or cheerful. In solving this problem, the photographer comes to the rescue color theory, namely one of its sections - psychology of color... Knowing what colors and how they affect the mind of the viewer, the photographer can adjust color balance of the composition landscape to achieve a specific result. At the same time, in a landscape, not always cold shades can create an atmosphere of hostility, and warm ones - friendliness. Small colored vegetation against the background of black thunderclouds looks defenseless, and the picture as a whole evokes a feeling of anxiety, while the cold Elbrus evokes awe and delight in its grandeur.

Of course, several of the listed natural spaces and conditions can easily overlap in one shot at the same time, but in this case, it will be important for a landscape photographer to decide what exactly is sense center, and select this center with visual media — perspectives, compositions, Sveta, colors.

If there is no such center, then landscape photography is purely aesthetic, narrative-specific in nature and is used for decorative, scientific or journalistic purposes. It is to the category of aesthetic in perception that landscape photography belongs. plein air- true reproduction in the image of nature of the colorful richness of color changes in natural conditions under the influence of sunlight and the atmosphere.

If there is still a semantic center in landscape photography, then such a landscape will be charged with emotional-dramatic (or epic) energy and will acquire features artistic landscape photography.

Along with the prerequisites for creating landscape photography, there are a number of conditions that are specific in nature - dynamism , foreshortening , detail. Considering that photography is a static and soundless type of fine art, it is in a landscape photo that it is most difficult to convey certain atmospheric phenomena with great accuracy. How to show a strong wind in a photograph of a desert? How to portray mountain giants more majestically? It is in these cases that the knowledge of the dynamics of the frame, the shooting point and the angle of view saves the landscape photographer.

Widespread in our time received tourist landscape photography... Not being essentially a separate genre, tourist landscape photography has become very popular due to both the availability of photographic equipment and the ability to visit the most remote corners of our planet.

The main feature of landscape photography is its accessibility. It does not require any decorations and stunts, it does not depend on the mood of the model and the preferences of the customer. It depends on the surrounding nature and weather conditions. And in this sense landscape photography unique. Whether it's a park or an alley within the city, or maybe a mountain range or a quiet surface of a lake outside of it - wherever you are, on vacation or on a business trip, in your own country or abroad, it is everywhere - nature is amazing a natural space capable of changing shape, content and color every minute, day after day, all year round, for millennia ... And even if a landscape photograph taken by you does not contain any semantic core, it will always be aesthetic, which means will always remind you of the essence and forms of beauty.

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We continue to acquaint our readers with the best contemporary photographers. Today we'll talk about the landscape genre. So read our review, share it with your friends and get inspired by admiring the works of the masters of the landscape genre!

Dmitry Arkhipov

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A native Muscovite Dmitry Arkhipov has been fond of photography since childhood. A physicist by training, Dmitry served in the army, worked at the Space Research Institute under the Buran program, created his own well-known IT company, while continuing to improve in the field of landscape photography.

The results of his travels to 108 countries of the world were five personal exhibitions, at which more than a million people saw Dmitry's works. Now Dmitry Arkhipov is an award-winning photographer, member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia, winner and laureate of national and international photo contests.

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Denis Budkov is a native of Kamchatka, since 1995 he has been traveling and photographing his native land. Love for nature and the desire to show all its beauty became an incentive for learning the basics of photography and improving skills in practice. Denis's main passion is volcanoes, which are so rich in the nature of Kamchatka. The volcanic eruptions and peaceful Kamchatka landscapes captured by him have already received awards from the prestigious photo contests Best of Russia 2009, 2013, Wildlife of Russia 2011, 2013, Golden Turtle, Wildlife Photographer of the Year - 2011. Denis says that photography is a way of life for him, which is completely satisfied. The main thing is to wait for the right moment to take that very shot.

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Mikhail Vershinin became interested in photography as a child; he had to give up visiting a photo studio in favor of another hobby - rock climbing and mountaineering, but even on sports routes he brought a camera with him. A craving for travel to wild places and a passion for filming eventually led Mikhail Vershinin to landscape photography. He explains his choice of this particular genre not only with a craving for nature, but also with a special mood, the ability to convey feelings and emotions with the help of a captured moment. Mikhail Vershinin's works have repeatedly become finalists and winners of Russian and international competitions, including National Geographic Russia - 2004 and FIAP Trierenberg Super Circuit - 2011 in the Night Image category.

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Oleg Gaponyuk, an MIPT graduate, lives and works in Moscow and has an unusual hobby - panoramic photography. For the sake of a good picture, he can easily go to the other end of the earth, along the way doing downhill skiing, windsurfing and diving. Despite the fact that his sports hobbies are associated with mountains, seas and oceans, in the field of photography, Oleg was carried away by the creation of spherical panoramas in the air. He actively participates in the AirPano.ru project, within the framework of which more than 1,500 bird's-eye panoramas have already been made in the most interesting cities and corners of the world. In terms of the geography of filming, the number of aerial panoramas and the artistic value of the material, this project is one of the world leaders in this type of panoramic photography.

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MIPT graduate Daniil Korzhonov prefers to call himself an amateur photographer, because he just does what he likes. Photography allowed him to combine his passion for painting and love of travel. As a landscape photographer, he visits the most beautiful places in the world and “draws” what he sees on film. Combining photography with travel allows Daniel to lead an active life and express his thoughts and feelings through beautiful and original shots captured both in the wild and on the streets of cities. He advises all novice photographers to shoot as much and as often as possible in order to better understand the surrounding beauty of the world.

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Vladimir Medvedev is the founder of the Wildlife Photographers Club, tireless traveler, professional photographer, winner of international competitions, including the 2012 BBC Wildlife Photography Competition in the Eric Hosking Portfolio Award nomination. Cooperation with wildlife sanctuaries around the world allows Vladimir to take unique shots of the virgin world and its inhabitants. Photography, according to Vladimir Medvedev, is both art, and a means of understanding the world, and a means of influencing the world. Getting started is easy - you just need to buy a camera and learn from the best.

Yuri Pustovoy

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Yuri Pustovoy is a graduate of VGIK, a cinematographer of the Odessa Film Studio with ten years of experience and an honored travel photographer. His works were recognized by the jury and visitors of international exhibitions and photo contests, in the collection of Yuri's awards Gold medal of the International Federation of Photography FIAP Global Arctic Awards 2012. Yuri Pustovoy is not only a traveler and photographer, but also an organizer of photo tours for real amateur photographers and beginners. The sights of the cameras of Yuri and his team capture landscapes from all over the world. During the tour, Yuri shares his photographic experience, helps during filming with advice and deeds, teaches the methods of processing photographs in graphic editors.

Sergey Semyonov

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Sergei Semyonov became interested in photography in 2003, when a digital camera fell into his hands for the first time in his life. Since then, he not only devoted all his free time to this hobby, but also turned shooting into a profession, exchanging his career as an economist for the fate of a travel photographer. In pursuit of the most beautiful views of the land, Sergei visits the national parks of North America, the mountains of Patagonia, the icy lagoons of Iceland, the Brazilian jungle and hot deserts. He shoots his favorite landscapes from a bird's eye view and is an active participant in the AirPano.ru project. In his first panorama, Sergei showed the Kremlin the way birds see it.

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The Belarusian photographer is known as a master of the landscape genre. Like many of his colleagues, he believes that beauty is everywhere, and the skill of the photographer is to show it to the viewer. He is characterized by exactingness towards himself and the quality of his work. You will be surprised, but sometimes Vlad comes to the same place several times to achieve the right lighting and take a great shot. And also, Vlad has been reading our magazine for a long time and regularly shares his photos with our entire audience.

Alexey Suloev

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Alexey Suloev got his first camera at the age of seven and quickly got used to taking pictures of everything around him, especially since his hobby for tourism allowed him to find himself in the most unusual, unexplored places of the Caucasus, Pamir and Tien Shan. Gradually, tourist trips turned into real photo travel. In pursuit of unusual shots, Alexey has already visited more than a hundred countries, the geography of his trips includes the most inaccessible and untouched places on our planet from the North to the South Pole. Alexey takes pictures because he cannot describe in words the beauty and diversity of the earth. He generously shares everything he sees with his viewers, so that everyone can find creative inspiration in the inexhaustibility of nature.

 

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