40 Incredible Photos of Breathtaking Places

Nature photography tends to put a stronger emphasis on the aesthetic value of the photo than other photography genres, such as photojournalism and documentary photography.
Apart from this difference, nature photography will always be more surprising than any other type of photography. Nature, with all its resources creates far more beautiful scenery than what a man can create artificially.

1500 year old Angel Oak in Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Aligned

Altay mountains, Russia

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan

Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan

Banyan tree Cypress Gardens, Florida, USA

Beach view

Cristal Cave, Iceland

Fields of Lavender in Provence, France

Flower Ocean in China

Glacier Bay, Alaska

Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Hall of Mosses, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

Hokitika gorge, New Zealand

Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks

Japanese Maple Tree, Austin, Texas, USA

Japanese Tea Field

Kochia Hill, Hitachinaka City, Japan

Marqueyssac Gardens – Vézac, France

Moraine Lake, Canada

Morondava, Madagascar

Nagano, Japan

Nature finds a way

Path in the woods

Piúva

Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA

Ponthus beech in Brocéliande forest, Bretagne, France

Portland, Oregon Japanese Garden – A bright orange-red lace-leaf maple

So Full

Stone Forest in Madagascar

Tea Garden near Mt. Fuji, Japan

Telatyn, Poland

The Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado, USA

The Verzasca River, Swiss Alps

Tibet

Tree in Portland Japanese Garden

Wisteria Tunnel Garden, Japan

Woodlands in the Netherlands

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Canada in autumn

Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, one or many colors that range from red to yellow. The phenomenon is commonly called fall colors and autumn colors, while the expression fall foliage usually connotes the viewing of a tree or forest whose leaves have undergone the change. In some areas of Canada and the United States, "leaf peeping" tourism is a major contribution to economic activity. This tourist activity occurs between the beginning of color changes and the onset of leaf fall.

The Canadian countryside, except for the prairies and some tundra regions, is heavily forested with deciduous trees ie. they loose their leaves in winter. The leaves start the die-back process at the end of summer, and during the following fall (autumn) the dying leaves change colour.

It is forests full of these changing colours that create a visual spectacle on such a scale that people travel long distances to witness it.

There are different tree species across the country, so naturally the fall displays vary both in colours and timing. The intensity of autumn color is at its best in the eastern provinces although the western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia also have something to offer.

However, if the purpose of your visit is to see the very best of the fall foliage, then Ontario, Quebec or the eastern Maritime provinces would be the better choices. The Ontario Parks Dept lists no less than 50 viewing sites throughout the province!

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