Awescape - a new word meaning a photo which leaves you in awe.
Awescape - a new word meaning a photo which leaves you in awe.
Please enjoy these photos and quotes.
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Join us on a journey of 30 photos of scenes of magical landscapes and nature combined with inspirational quotes. Exhale and marvel in the wonder of the world around you; follow along as a Most Privileged tourist in this amazing world we inhabit. Reviewing these photos has made me once again humbled by the amazing places I have been.
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Day One
Day One
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
Thank you MPT community for being one of the two people.
Location: Twin Lakes, Colorado.
Day Two
Day Two
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” - Maya Angelou
location Cheyenne Mountain Colorado Springs
Day Three
Day Three
“Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.” – Jim Hodges
Location : Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy.
Day Four
Day Four
"As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."~ Anne Frank
Location: Garmisch - Partenkirchen, Germany
Day Five
Day Five
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” - John Lennon
Location: Veggiano, Italy.
Day Six
Day Six
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” - Dolly Parton
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Day Seven
Day Seven
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Location: Howth, Ireland
Day Eight
Day Eight
“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Location: Cleethorpes, UK
This is a photo close to the home my family. My Mum, Dad and brother and family live about a mile from this scene. I chose this quote because it spoke to me - I love this photo/quote combination and see nature as art. Same concept - I chose the photo for many reasons; the horizontal line is highlighted by the sea turned dark by the clouds. The sky is both beautiful and formidable; just like life itself. The green - I love the green most of all; the green is an infinite category of color. There are so many shades and sub-categories of shades of green in nature. There are infinite shades in nature's palate of each color but green excels. Grey maybe next: look at the variations of grey in the sky. Each variation of color in nature seems like a unique creation. Nature's color like snowflakes is individual and never quite repeated. The pops of uniquely blue sky show balance and hope. As rainbows, sunshine and birdsong follow storms; nature heals and inspires us to continue after setbacks. Dark is not infinite it does not last forever. Silver tinted clouds are true. Just look at this photo.
I challenge you not to dwell on the dark but look around for the beauty which surrounds dark. We too are like the colors in nature; none of us are exactly the same. For nature's color palate paints the awescapes around us. Let your individual color/identity blend and maybe clash with others. Just as you are meant to. Make your meaning an awescape to be proud of.
What did I miss ? What do you see when you look at this photo ?
Day Nine
Day Nine
“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” - Chief Seattle
Location: Pawleys Island, South Carolina, USA
Day Ten
Day Ten
“Mountains are where heaven meets earth.” – Anita Diament
Location: Top of the Zugspitze on the Austrian –German border
Day Eleven
Day Eleven
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
I feel this every time I step out of the door for a walk. I always feel better and have seen or felt something I did not completely expect. (author)
Location, Veggiano, Italy.
Day Twelve
Day Twelve
“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.” - Beau Taplin
Sunsets are a tribute to the past and a salute to new beginnings and opportunities. (Author)
Location: Veggiano, Veneto, Italy.
Day Thirteen
Day Thirteen
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn". ~ John Muir
Location: Lake Bled, Slovenia.
Day Fourteen
Day Fourteen
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” - Alice Walker
We too are part of nature and can be bent and contorted but still beautiful and perfect (Author)
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Day Fifteen
Day Fifteen
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills
Location: North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
Fun fact: Beverly Sills was known as America's best female Opera soprano. She was born in May 1923 and died in 2007. (Author)
Day Sixteen
Day Sixteen
Awescapes
Awescapes
“There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.” - Ralph Smart
Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Day Seventeen
Day Seventeen
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery." - John Ruskin
Location : Bavaria, Germany
Day Eighteen
Day Eighteen
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
Location: Veggiano, Northern Italy.
Fun Fact: Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays
Day Nineteen
Day Nineteen
"All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child" ~ Marie Curie
I felt this way when I walked this trail.
Location: Parco Frassanelle, Veneto, Italy.
Day Twenty
Day Twenty
“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” - John Muir
Location: Buena Vista, Colorado.
Day Twenty-one
Day Twenty-one
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. " - Jacques Cousteau
Location: Cannon Beach, Northern Oregon
Day Twenty-two
Day Twenty-two
"Colors are the smiles of nature." - Leigh Hunt
Location: Paint Mines Interpretive Park, Calhan, Colorado
Fun fact: These brightly colored bands are caused by oxidized iron compounds, found in varying amounts throughout the many different layers of clay. The paint mines have evidence of human life as far back as 9,000 years ago.
Hoping the colors of nature find you today. (Author) - can you spot my son's shadow ?
Day Twenty-three
Day Twenty-three
“Choose only one master — nature.” - Rembrandt
Location: Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs
Day Twenty-four
Day Twenty-four
"In the mountains, there you feel free.” – T. S. Eliot
Location. Leadville, Colorado.
Day Twenty-Five
Day Twenty-Five
“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” - Dr Seuss
Location: Cortina, Italy
Day Twenty-Six
Day Twenty-Six
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." ~ Lord Byron
Location: Gooch's Beach, Kennebunk Beach, Maine.
Day Twenty-Seven
Day Twenty-Seven
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Location: Grisignano di Zocco, the Veneto, Italy
A humbling quote worth bearing in mind - when we look around we are certainly not the only experiment of nature. I also hope nature has found through its experiments a more trustworthy ally to depend on than us.
Day Twenty- Eight
Day Twenty- Eight
"Which of my photos is my favorite ? The one I am going to take tomorrow." - Imogen Cunningham
Location: Broadmoor, Colorado Springs.
Day Twenty-nine
Day Twenty-nine
"If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy the sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a Lord" - Nathan Phillips
Location Monterey Bay, California.
Day Thirty
Day Thirty
"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." — Charlie Chaplin
Location: Veggiano, Italy
Thank you for being part of this 30 day challenge. Heads up Most Privileged Tourists - keep looking around you. Till the next time.
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