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[OM] TOPE 9 - Another Definition of Landscape

Subject: [OM] TOPE 9 - Another Definition of Landscape
From: dreammoose <dreammoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:43:11 -0700
I've had time now to look at least once at all the entries and make comments on a few. It's a wonderful group of pictures and I intend to spend more time looking and commenting.

I have no wish to revive any "What is and isn't a Landscape" stuff. Nor do I wish to imply that any picture on the TOPE is or isn't a landscape or does or doesn't belong there. I think they all belong there.

What struck me strongly looking at so many pictures in a row with some care, is how many of them convey a powerful "Sense of Place". Even when I don't know where the picture was taken, most of them remind me strongly of a similar place where I have been and bring a whole sense of being there, on the land, along with other sensory and emotive affects. Others don't remind me of a specific place, but still give me the sense of 'being there'. I suggest that a good, non-exclusive definition of a 'Landscape' could be any picture that gives the viewer a strong sense of being somewhere (known or not) on the Earth looking at the view.

I look back and see my words don't quite do justice to what I want to convey. Perhaps "Sense of Place" is the best I can do.

Moose


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