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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
A Landscape at Sunset is a 1773 landscape painting by the French artist Joseph Vernet. [1] [2] It portrays a view of a harbour bathed in sunshine on a summer's day with fisherman bringing on their catch. It was commissioned by King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski as one of a pair of landscapes along with A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas.
Landscape photography (often shortened to landscape photos) shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
Sunset over the Delaware Bay at Sunset Beach, New Jersey, U.S., seen through cirrus clouds Sunset is distinct from twilight , which is divided into three stages. The first one is civil twilight , which begins once the Sun has disappeared below the horizon, and continues until it descends to 6 degrees below the horizon.
Landscape with scene from the Odyssey, Rome, c. 60–40 BCE. Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape ...
Sunset Beach will pump perfect waves with west-to-northeast swells coming from the North Pacific. The spot is located two miles (3.3 km) east of Banzai Pipeline. [9] It was home to the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship until 1985. The Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational in honor of Eddie Aikau started at Sunset
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Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset is a pen and ink wash drawing by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. It was painted in 1610, and is now in the British Museum in London. [1] The drawing is valuable in that it is the only drawing signed and dated by de Momper. [2] The drawing shows a view of the sea with the setting sun.