Ok, seeing as these things always get locked, here's three simple rules (I can't actually enforce them unfortunately).

- This thread's for various epic nature photos (on scales both big and small) that you've taken.
- No people in any photos at all
- Maybe try to keep the photos at facebook photo resolution, so that people's screens and stuff don't get all stretched and munted.


Here's some of mine:

Esperance/South Coast WA






Desert WA:

(I know, more sunrises, really go to get out of that habit)


So, now that I've got it started, post some of your own!

Wow, the third and last picture is beautiful!

I only have two random photos I've taken a long time ago, nothing special:





The last one is edited, obviously. Unfortunately I don't have the original photo anymore.

looks sweet. What coastline is that?

It's the coastline of a small island in Denmark called Glænø, only about 70-90 people lives there.

Amanita calyptratoides, I didn't identify it.

Both of these are from the southwest Oregon coast about an hour's drive from me....

Woah, those are some pretty awesome pictures there, The_Emo_Hater! Do you have any more? Those rock/tree formations are badass

Waterfall in Chiapas, Mexico


River separating Guatemala and Mexico, with Guatemala on the left

Creepy path


Mt Diablo, near San Ramon CA


Close up of an interesting looking rock I found

I guess, by living in Australia, it's hard to imagine two nations touching like that. Swim for 30 seconds across a river and you're in a brand-new country. Strange.

A lookout near me called Hindmarsh Lookout. The picture does it no justice; it was super quiet up there and the most peaceful place ever. The view was magnificent, too.


The only other ones I can find at the moment are epic city/suburb shots, but I'm not sure if they count, so I'll leave them out. Neither of them have specific people in them....

A few from a travel to Scandinavia last year:

Nice view on a small lake, about ten likometres south of Oslo.


In the Norwegian mountainside


Climbing up from the Rauma valley


A first look down


Looking down from a bit further up


Going down again, watching thevillage of Andalsnes and the fjord



And two hiking pictures from Austria:

These photos were taken around my family's house in rural Donegal, Ireland. I'm not much of a photographer so the pictures don't quite do the beauty of the place justice.

Amish farm right outside of Lancaster, Pa.

This was taken in New Mexico. I'm not a very good photographer, but I just took a shit ton of pictures on this trip and this one turned out pretty awesome.

I know you said no people...and I'll take this one off if need be, but...it is, admittedly, a pretty 'epic' nature photo, and the person in the shot adds to it more than it detracts. but again, i can get rid of it.


And one from the boring flatlands for good measure...

Wow, some great stuff here.

sick photos pseudo, also monks, I figured New Mexico was just straight out desert. I wish WA had a bit more in terms of forest and mountains..

most my pics are analogue and I do not bother digitalizing them. One of the few nature photos that I am able to upload.

This is a picture taken at night (!) and this would be a tree next to a school in Bremen.

Crazy, it looks like a dude in a tree costume.

I LOVE this thread and your second rule!
You got some nice photos!
I'll start with some favourites of mine:

















Winter in Aralar (mountainside in Basque Country).
I use to make some nice trekkings during hours at winter in those mountains.
Keep 'em coming!

That looks like a giant nerve cell!

All of these photos are beautiful but Pseudodraconis, you live in a very beautiful area! I think the person in the one of the pictures fits as well, really magnifies how epic that landscape is in comparison to a tiny human.

The Rockies' southern end runs through NM. The rest of the country is flat plains with some desert, but the mountains make their own weather. Its still incredibly dry though, most of the time. I don't live there though, I'm from California. I was backpacking there for 3 weeks a couple years ago and took that. This thread is really cool, awesome pictures everyone.

Where exactly did you take those last two, Suechtler?

Here are some I took last year on my cross-country trip from Houston, TX to Vegas. Lots of stops in between, but I'll let the pictures do the talking. Most of the others have people in them.

Thank you very much, but I don't, unfortunately, live there. I just visit very often. Two of those photos are from Grandfather Mountain in Linville, North Carolina. The two darker ones were taken from a peak off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The other photos with the fir trees were taken in Todd, North Carolina, on a Christmas tree farm. The last photo is the only one from where I actually live, in Florida.

These two photos were taken at the Zirbitzkogel in the Seetaler alps in Styria.

Ah, thanks. Just being curious.

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I'm about to go hiking. I'll have some photos now that I got my new phone.

Damn, I'm kicking myself for not taking any pics on my Wednesday hiking trip. I was not planning on carrying anything with me other than a small shovel and some pots to bring back some medicinal herbs. It was raining and I didn't want to get the camera wet. I'm getting more and more into ethnobotany so much so that I now look at every tree and plant, shrub, and weed with a new found scrutiny and wonder. Just looking at these overhead views on some of the pics here and the desert ones has me wanting to go back for more specimens. Anyone else interested in medicinal herbs?

Some that I snapped real quickly when I went up to Mount Diablo







These fancy new phones come in handy.

Some brilliant stuff in this topic.

Wow you must live right near me, I cant tell you how many times I have done that hike.

Yeah, I live in Concord. I also noticed that schneider90 posted a photo of Mount Diablo.

Uh, most of Washington is temperate rainforest. Ever been to the Olympic Mountains or the Cascade range? I live in the Cascades, and the entire land seems to always be covered in a curtain of fog.

He's referring to Western Australia...

Ahh... I feel like an idiot. Sorry. I don't know anything about Australia, just Europe and North America.

This was taken a couple of years back during a week long stay at Rancho del Cielo, a small rain forest in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico in search of El Ongito (Psilocybe Mexicana). We found many colorful caps, nothing edible though. Luckily there was lysergic to share with the rest of the blotterheads.




These are a couple of shots taken on our road trip to Real de Catorce, Mexico in search of Hikuri (lophophora williamsi). Catorce is known as Wirikuta among the Huichol Indians who believe it to be one of their most sacred sites if not the most sacred as they annually hold pilgrimages in their hunt for the sacred cactus. The Huichols, or as they call themselves, Wixaritari, are the only Mexican indigenous society that has managed to resist becoming Chrisitanized and modernized.