Landscape photos from where you live or you are from

[Yora]

I happened to be browsing for some pictures of the landscape where I grew up, and admitedly, it really isn't a spectacular sight that draws any tourists for more than a weekend.
But growing up in the city while at the same time staying at my grandparents in the country just outside of town every third or fourth weekend, it very much shaped my imagination of how the world in books looks.
And once you moved away, you really start to apprechiate it. I think I havn't seen the horizon in over six years. Always some hill or some trees in the way, even when you're away from any buildings.

People here come from very different places all over the world, so I am really wondering what the world looks outside of the cities where you are from.

First the horrible boring truth of what you actually see 99% of the time when looking out of a train or being on the highway:
http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/STK/DE/Bilder/grafikfoto/LandschaftStaedteNatur/knicklandschaft_280x210__blob=poster.jpg

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=53.680442,11.755371&spn=2.241722,4.696655&t=h&z=8

But after that, some photos I found that capture how it can be when you happen to be in the right places at the right time, and also in the right state of mind.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa84ivA2j1rz7r1oo5_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa84ivA2j1rz7r1oo2_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo8_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa84ivA2j1rz7r1oo4_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa84ivA2j1rz7r1oo3_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo7_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo6_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo5_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo2_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo3_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa84ivA2j1rz7r1oo1_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maa960oJMy1rz7r1oo1_1280.jpg

What do you find when you leave the buildings behind and just watch the landscape that is familiar to you? Just put the place into google or bing (maybe with the added term "landscape" in your language or you only get maps and local politicans) and post some of the pictures that you think capture it well.

[Sila Prirode]

I live in a city called Zadar, so you might be already familiar with this. But nevertheless, here goes something:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/o/2010/259/c/d/cd1888ac8c69e311b08080ea197be916.jpg
It's a common sight to be seen there, after all, it's been called by Alfred Hitchcock a city with most beautiful sunset in the whole world. A bit more pictures in this (http://ivancoric.daportfolio.com/gallery/3158) link, after that I'm leaving it up to your google-fu, I'm not really well versed in landscape photos :smalltongue:

[GolemsVoice]

Yora, Landsmann, where are you from in Germany? These are beautiful! Nordrhein-Westfalen, or further north?

[Wyntonian]

I've been looking for a chance to show my homeland off for a while now. Thanks!

http://www.whisperingwoods.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Multnomah_Falls.jpg

http://secretgardenbbinn.com/files/2009/03/autumn-winery.jpg

http://www.oregonmag.net/SimonGeoMcIverPark1109.jpg

http://www.theskichannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091027_bachelor.jpg

http://planetoddity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/crater-lake-1.jpg

http://www.8screensavers.com/screensavers/preview/c/a/cape-lookout-state-park-oregon-landscape-1-screensaver.jpg

[pffh]

Lets start with some auroras:


http://visindavefur.hi.is/myndir/aurorapillarspowerlines.jpg
http://visindavefur.hi.is/myndir/nordurljos_240209.jpg
http://knittingiceland.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/EirasiNordurljos.jpg
http://www.rikivatnajokuls.is/media/nordurljos/stor/Jokulsarl.Nordurljos.jpg
http://www.mbl.is/tncache/frimg/360/5/26/526956.jpg
http://agbjarn.blog.is/users/fa/agbjarn/img/nordurljos-stallar-800w-dropshadow.jpg
http://kristinnp.blog.is/users/f8/kristinnp/img/nor_urljos_yfir_xara.jpg
http://icelandairhotels.is/sites/default/files/Iceland_Northern_lights_Fludir.IIII__0.jpg
http://www.utanrikisraduneyti.is/media/Frettatilkynning/Nordurljos.jpg
http://solheimahjaleiga.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Eldgos-og-nor%C3%B0urlj%C3%B3s-%C3%A1-Fimmv%C3%B6r%C3%B0uh%C3%A1lsi.png
http://www.visitreykjavik.is/is/Portaldata/1/Resources/infocus/Fridarsula---Nordurljos-vef.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3387/3251066212_a44b32fd44.jpg
http://www.farmholidays.is/assets/forsidueiningar/nordurljos-300.jpg
http://www.rnes.is/old/english/images/nordurljos.jpg


And a handful of landscape photos


http://www.saf.is/saf/upload/images/myndir_af_felogum/ferdamalastofa/picture_064.jpg
http://i15.tinypic.com/6aqe1y1.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3639/3421250916_ff39a5bcf8.jpg
http://www.groandinn.is/cms/components/com_joomgallery/img_pictures/slensk_nttra_2/hvitserkur_img_1495_20110111_1619759620.jpg
http://blog.pressan.is/vilhjalmurari/files/2011/05/Vatnajokull3.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/7572019884_958313fa8c.jpg
http://www.hoteledda.is/files/imagecache/edda_slider_hotel_images/B_6_3_0.jpg
http://www.hoteledda.is/files/imagecache/edda_slider_hotel_images/Edda-Egi-13.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3636/3420431929_5085ab2275.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3390/3420434245_907f820696.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3443/3399071483_6291abb1f7.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3570/3399010485_c1cd89d097.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3581/3399815536_50b33df796.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2504/3721545624_f2f7784b2d.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2427/3807965646_c02840e117.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3491/3808014988_31b245ea9b.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2429/3820436008_cff8d5f28e.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2428/3833299387_f65a1ebfc1.jpg

[Trog]

It figures that I have to post right behind Iceland. :smalltongue:

Anyway, here's a few shots of the region.


Just off the river...
http://www.uwlax.edu/hr/newemp/imgs/LaCrosseHarbor_Large.jpg
We find the statue of the king. He's raising a goblet in toast to this monument across the street...
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/121/258553303_7448d4bd9a_z.jpg?zz=1
The World's Largest Six Pack. Yes, those really contain beer. 2,600,000 liters or 688,200 gallons of beer, to be precise. If you squint you can see a person standing in front of them there. Look for a caucasian pixel. You'll find him eventually.
http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/worlds_biggest_6_pack_beer_1.jpg
Anyway all that beer leads to bars with reputations like this
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2291/1813915772_aaaa111f2f_z.jpg
more often than not chock full of these
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3025/3109144420_2a0e1cdf70_z.jpg?zz=1
But to see other natural area beauty you can always climb up here
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1324/1465752184_10f9b2318f_z.jpg
And see way over here
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4066/4710968676_1fbb3c54cb_z.jpg
And everything below will look like this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bperucco/6929483678/sizes/l/in/photostream/).

Aaand that's how we do sight seeing. :smallwink:

[Whoracle]

360° panorama shot of my hometown (warning: BIG file)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Freiburg_Panorama_1000.jpg

[Yora]

And my first thought was "Kassel?" Most of Germany looks the same everywhere. :smallbiggrin:

[Elemental]

That's because you have so many picturesque towns!
*is jealous of Germany*

[Whoracle]

And my first thought was "Kassel?" Most of Germany looks the same everywhere. :smallbiggrin:

Kassel (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Kassel_Panorama.jpg)?!? Come on!

Anyways, more:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Freiburg_-_Oberlinden_02.jpg
http://awakeningcoaching.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/freiburg.jpg

[Eldan]

This is what I see when I look out of my window, more or less (taken in a town quite a bit away, but same mountain):

http://www.hotel-kreuzlingen.ch/uploads/pics/saentis-t-2_01.jpg

I'll have to see about a bigger picture. Now, that mountain isn't actually close. Most of hte time, it's not visible at all, thanks to either mist, smog or clouds. But every once in a while, we get a clear day and wind from the south, and it basically jumps through your living room window.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

...
I don't have landscapes.
I'm a big-city boy.

http://indexofwallpapers.com/wallpapers/toronto-wallpapers/toronto-wallpaper-8-13914.jpg

Toronto looks built up, but it's really a city in a park. The area used to be wetland, and areas of it still are. High Park, for example, was bequeathed to the city on the terms that they never develop it and leave it almost completely natural land. http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_davidw/2007-09-24HighParkWalk.jpg

The city is also criss-crossed with beautiful wooded ravines with rivers and creeks running through them, that it just isn't safe to build in due to flooding concerns, so they're also completely undeveloped.
http://donmillsresidents.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/don-mills-fall-ravine.jpg

Southern Ontario generally though...
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/taxa/soil/brunisolic/dystric_on_sl.jpg
Lots of low rolling hills, alternating farmland and forest.

There is the Niagra Escarpment, which is a big ridge that runs quite a ways...
http://henryofpelham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HOP_600by300_ngrscrpmnt.jpg

If you go further north you reach the Canadian Shield, a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge area of trees, rocks, hills, rivers and lakes. http://tomangelakis.tripod.com/images/Canadian_Shield.JPG

Nowadays though, I'm in Montreal, Quebec.

WARNING HUGE IMAGES
http://www.winwallpapers.net/w1/2011/05/Montreal-Photos.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Mount_Royal_Montreal_Lookout.jpg
These are the views from Mount Royal, after which Montreal is named.

Montreal has a few awesome landmarks that you can see from up there.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Montreal_view_from_Mount_Royal_31.JPG
The olympic stadium.

From the city, you can often see the big lit-up cross on the top of the mountain. No building is allowed to be taller than the cross.
http://diocesemontreal.org/tl_files/actualite/eglise-verte-green-church/mount%20royal%20autumn.jpg

But the city isn't all horribly urban and stuff: there's a nice park out by the Biosphere, on one of the smaller islands.
http://0.tqn.com/d/gocanada/1/0/d/6/-/-/fall_colour_Montreal_biosphere.jpg

Rural Quebec is faaiiiirrllly similar to Ontario.

[Inglenook]

Kentucky's pretty, but sort of generic compared to most places. :smallsigh:

This is probably the most representative of the actual countryside.
http://kentuckyscenic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Valley-11.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/w9b3on.jpg

Cumberland Falls is pretty famous for being one of the few waterfalls to naturally form a moonbow.
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/170/1/9/cumberland_falls_summer_by_deirdrebardowl.jpg

Then there's the natural bridge.
http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/ximages/nature/NaturalBrdge/NaturalBridge2.jpg

We have a random-ass castle.
http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2011/03/versailles-castle.jpg

The Appalachian Mountains.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/i/pwyl/6131_Sam_Adams_Orion_Pine_Mtn.JPG

Nolin Lake.
http://kentuckyscenic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/NolinLakeWide-11-1024x356.jpg

Nada Tunnel's pretty cool, actually.
http://tedmuller.us/Outdoor/AmericaTheBeautiful/KY/Nada_Tunnel,Red_River_Gorge.jpg

Lost River Cave used to have an underground nightclub built alongside the underground river, and I think you can still rent the area out for special events.
http://images.travelpod.com/tw_slides/ta00/9b2/9ec/entrance-ti-lost-river-cave-bowling-green.jpg

And heck, there are caves all over the place because of all the limestone; I had a fairly large one in my backyard growing up, although I don't have any pictures of it. The most famous, of course, is Mammoth Cave, although I can't find a picture that doesn't make it look disgusting.

Not exactly a landscape, but Waverly Hills is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in the U.S.
http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_portfolio/40000-44999/42135/800/Copyrighted_Image_Reuse_Prohibited_475122.jpg

Oh, and how could I forget the fantastic Dinosaur World? :smallannoyed:
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2534/3812666933_384068d38a_z.jpg

[Riverdance]

There is the Niagra Escarpment, which is a big ridge that runs quite a ways...
http://henryofpelham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HOP_600by300_ngrscrpmnt.jpg



Looks a lot like the Gunks famous climbing ridge near New Paltz, New York. I lived almost in it's shadow for three weeks this past summer.

[Yora]

That's because you have so many picturesque towns!
*is jealous of Germany*
Well, we are really just showing off the 1% nice places we have. Most of the country is just dreadful.

But since someone started with city pictures, I now have to do some serious showing off myself.

And no, these are not just pictures from the only good looking street we have. Almost the entire old city actually still looks like that. And I say it upfront, the entire island is an UNESCO world heritage site. :smalltongue:Here is the airial view for reference. (https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=53.866574,10.694633&spn=0.017436,0.036693&t=h&z=15) Almost everything off the island is just an ugly modern city build in the 50s.

http://www.toeurope.eu/design/photos/luebeck-holstentor-marien.jpg

The "main city gate", located on an island between the inner moat and the outer moat and the only part of the outer wall that has not been demolished. Now there's a museum inside it, but it's really being inside a perfectly preserved late medieval fortification that is the best thing about it. It used to be on the 10-DM-bill.
In the background are two of the five giant ass churches. The one with the two towers is the largest brick walled room in the world. (Given that almost all the worlds large brick buildings are on the baltic coast, that's not actually as cool as it sounds.)
The other one has a viewing platform at the top, which you can see on the picture.
Those red buildings on the right are also of great historc value. Used to be storehouses for salt coming from the salt mines upriver.

http://www.breutel.de/kameras/Bilder/voigtlaender-brilliant-luebeck-marienkirche-2.jpg

The church again, seen from the tower of the other church. That green spire in the center of the image is actually from a third church, some hundred meters behind it.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lBJFmUIk5k/TrwV9B3ZR6I/AAAAAAAAAPU/xGkKFEWr42k/s1600/Photo%2B2%2B-%2BMarienkirche%2BWorld%2527s%2BTallest%2BBrick%2B Vault.JPG

And again from the inside.

It also has the coolest world war 2 memorial, ever.
When the city was bombed and the churces burned out almost completely, these 7 tonnes and 2 tonnes bells dropped 60 meters and left that crater in the old solid stone floor.

http://www.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop106129857/4310714635-ci3x2l-w580-aoriginal-h386-l0/Luebeck-Marienkirche-Glocken-Foto-.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2728/4017485076_237a73c11c_z.jpg?zz=1
This street looks great on pictures, but sucks to live at. Because the river floods it every single year for about a week.

http://img.fotocommunity.com/images/Schleswig-Holstein/Luebeck/Luebeck-Dom-1-a23686587.jpg

Another giant ass church, this one the old Bishops church at the other side of the old city.

When you come from the city center, where the market and the city hall are located, the shortest way to get there is through this street, which leads straight to a small side chappel called the Paradise. If you wanted to request the Bishops protection, that's where you'd be running, and so this last street before the church gates is called Purgatory.

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/9572303.jpg

At the one end there's a bus stop also called Purgatory, which is quite funny when you're with non-locals. :smallbiggrin:

And a few more general showing off pictures:
http://www.altstadthaus-am-dom.com/images/project-elements/altstadt-bg-07.jpg

http://geo.hlipp.de/photos/00/03/000382_50571be9.jpg

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/39336619.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6101/6409183665_fa9e3248fc_z.jpg

http://www.foto-reiseberichte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/comp__IGP0207.jpg

http://www.bastianwehler.de/typo3temp/fl_realurl_image/gassen-gaenge-und-hoefe-in-der-luebecker-altstadt-en.jpg

http://www.ferienhaus-luebeck-altstadt.de/attachments/Image/B__ckergang.JPG
And no, our bars and pubs don't have outside tables. :smallamused:

[urikson]

I was born near this:
http://i.imgur.com/Sq8mh.jpg?1

I spent my summers here:
http://i.imgur.com/geaRt.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/oRzJU.jpg?1

Then our empire crumbled to dust and we moved to a new land.

North:
http://i.imgur.com/lMXH6.jpg?1

South:
http://i.imgur.com/aAlrI.jpg?1

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Last 4 photos aren't showing up proper for me. :smallfrown:

Edit: Ninja-fixed!

[Moff Chumley]

Here is the valley I live in.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Lucas_Valley,_California.JPG

Here's Pt Reyes, a pretty short drive from where I live.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bzs7nbRbYaY/T8fTk7crEhI/AAAAAAAAENE/D4hFR-R_Rfs/s1600/ptReyesColorbig.jpg
http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/513/ptreyes175.JPG

A bit further down the coast, there's the Headlands, which was a military base for a while and now has a bunch of ruined, abandoned bunkers.
http://alexfradkin.com/gallery/large/Bunker_Tunnel_2.jpg
http://www.garyyost.com/data/photos/217_1tennessee_valley_storm_s_l.jpg
http://allthatsfit.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/golden-gate-bridge-marin-headlands-san-francisco-california2.jpeg

Muir Woods is a bit of a tourist attraction, but I can't seem to find a photo that does it justice.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3242827384_6ced6dbb3e_o.jpg

Basically, the west half of the county looks like this:
http://images.summitpost.org/original/491367.JPG

And the southeast part is boring, yet inexplicably picturesque, upper middle class urban sprawl that I can't seem to find a decent picture of. :smalltongue:

[HeadlessMermaid]

http://www.ferienhaus-luebeck-altstadt.de/attachments/Image/B__ckergang.JPG
Oooh, I've seen houses like this (left row) in France, they are frightfully old! Well, at least the style is frightfully old, the buildings may be slightly younger. Do we know how old they are?

("Frightfully" in this case is a good thing, obviously.)

P.S. Also, I'd like to say that this thread would be pure win if everyone resized the images to something marginally sane. :smalltongue: