This is the second picturesque photo that I captured. It lacks details, and all presence of human life, the landscape isn’t even of much beauty. If you were stranded in a place like this I imagine it would be much like a desert of grass. So what makes this picture picturesque? Remember how earlier I talked about how the picturesque is parasitic of the sublime. In this picture you are presented with a rolling landscape and a beautiful blue sky, the landscape would be sublime if it had more detail, more color, and more life. Yet since it is devoid of these characteristics it is simply parasitic of the sublime, making it picturesque. This picture to me seems to capture the seemingly endless supply of rolling fields that the Palouse is famous for. The lines in the field and waving grass give it a texture that can’t be reproduced by any artwork, the position of the landscape with the mountain fading away in the background makes the closer mountain almost shout with color and details by comparison. This brings up something that I really love about this picture; If you look at the sky, it slowly fades from blue to white, the hill even seems to fade away with the one in the background. It seems almost that the flash on my camera brought this portion of the landscape to life, and that without it, the sky would have sat without color, and the hills without texture. Another thing that I found just as interesting is the miniature forest that is visible on top of the hill to the right. It looks to me like a beacon of hope for any and all types of life in this grass desert. Like an oasis I can already feel the shade from those trees keeping the hot sun off of my back, I can taste the berries provided from the shrubbery, and feel the adrenaline of chasing game through the tree’s. This picture truly captures the picturesque and tells a story that is magnificent. I hope I have helped shed some light on the picturesque, also I hope you enjoyed my pictures!
