Posted on 10/07/2024 7:51:56 AM PDT by texas booster
1: Machu Picchu, Peru
Few places capture the imagination like this archaeological site, a citadel built by the ancient Incas in the 15th century and mysteriously abandoned. Machu Picchu's network of dry-stone walls and agricultural terraces etch the mountaintop site, surrounded by Andean peaks. Throw in llamas and alpacas, who graze on grassy slopes nearby, and you have a winner.
“EGADS!! Looks like a beginner got some new image processing software and turned the HDR knob up to 11. What an awful image.”
I’ve been seeing a lot of that. Oversaturation. The world just does not look like that. kind of like the Simpson’s episode. “Oops I had the make up gun set on whore.”
Fascinating info, WY. Thanks.
It reminds me of the mid 80s when suddenly everybody discovered they could use fonts. Simple documents got almost unreadable with ridiculous fonts. Not soon after that, gratuitous graphics got added to documents and we were off to the races.
Now we have AI generating amazing graphics. So much change in only 40 years.
Hands off my Comic Sans!
Preacher, you’ve stopped preaching and started meddling!
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It is already at the point where the AI generation of pictures, articles and podcasts is getting really good for the average Internet denizen.
1: Machu Picchu, Peru
2: Taj Mahal, India
3: Great Wall of China, China
4: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia
5: Mount Fuji, Japan
6: Grand Canyon South Rim, Arizona, USA
7: Ancient city of Petra, Jordan
8: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
9: Old Man of Storr, Scotland, UK
10: The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
11: Santorini’s blue rooftops, Greece
12: Mont-Saint-Michel, France
13: Pamukkale’s thermal pools, Turkey
14: Matterhorn, Switzerland
15: Top of the Rock, New York, USA
16: Bagan, Myanmar
17: Milford Sound, New Zealand
18: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
19: Hallstatt, Austria
20: Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
21: Supertree Grove, Singapore
22: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
23: Moraine Lake, Canada
24: Lake Bled, Slovenia
25: Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA
26: Crater Lake, Oregon, USA
27: That Wanaka Tree, New Zealand
28: White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA
29: Mayan Ruins of Tulum, Mexico
30: Dubrovnik Old Town, Croatia
31: Provence lavender fields, France
32: Llyn Llydaw, Wales
33: Cloud Gate, Illinois, USA
34: Douro Valley, Portugal
35: Tower Bridge, England, UK
36: Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA
37: City of Arts and Sciences, Spain
38: Table Mountain, South Africa
39: Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
40: Avenue of the Baobabs, Madagascar
The full list is just above this.
Volcanic crater, with a lava plug center?
I lived in Lake Tahoe for 12 years and the number of incredible views is amazing. There is nothing like skiing down Heavenly Valley on a blue bird day when the entire basin is coated in snow. I'm sure I've got a shot somewhere...
Not my shot but this pic works! Link to a live cam at the top of the Heavenly Valley Gondola- https://www.skiheavenly.com/the-mountain/mountain-conditions/mountain-cams.aspx
Lovely
Rio from Pao do Azucar to Sao Conrado
From Leme and Copacabana to Leblon and ipanema with Christ statue in back is a contender
Glacier national park and Patagonia mountains too
Cobalt inky seas of the deep Caribbean at sunset
Santa Fe downtown with fresh snow
Joshua Tree
London in the 80s
Manhattan skyline from the triboro
Paris or Rome period
Provence with keeps and castles dotting hilltops like a children book inside cover art from the 50s
550 from Durango to Ouray colorado in winter
Mossy laden southern hardwoods swamp with cypress and full bellied ducks swarming in at dawn
Cockpit country or Blue mountain peak of Jamaica laden in mist
It’s a beautiful world
Villa de Lieba Colombia near Tunis
I forgot about that one
Special high Andes colonial village
Bolivar was there a bit
Cloud Gate
Really?
I’d never heard of that one and others. :^)
Crater Lake Oregon rather than Meteor Crater AZ? Chicago? I think it’s possible that there’s a partisan agenda grinding on in the background. It would come as no surprise if, in five years such a list will consist entirely of plaques regarding quasi-historical leftist BS.
https://search.brave.com/images?q=Cloud%20Gate%2C%20Illinois%2C%20USA
https://search.brave.com/images?q=pamukkale
https://search.brave.com/images?q=Llyn+Llydaw%2C+Wales
other good candidates:
https://search.brave.com/images?q=fingal%27s+cave
https://search.brave.com/images?q=giant%27s+causeway
https://search.brave.com/images?q=shannon+pot
and maybe:
https://search.brave.com/images?q=carew+castle
and instead of Golden Gate park:
https://search.brave.com/images?q=san%20francisco%20palace%20of%20fine%20art
Beautiful.
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