>>7184

When schoolgirls have completed their transformation to cantankerous harpies, their platonic ideal goes to the Scenic World, which is why you encounter them everywhere.

>>7186
Good point.

>>7184

For me its kind of the exact opposite. I like a couple characters in a scene because then it feels more real to me, as if it exists somewhere and if I search hard enough I'll find it.

If they scene is desolate and empty of life it feels like its just a drawing of some imaginary place.

>>7333
Well, I definitely like having characters in the scene, but only if they fit the environment/enhance the scene. What kills me is stuff like >>7155. What are they doing there? Or in >>7130, where the lady's giant head blocks what's up the stairs, which makes it less interesting to me.

It's that sort of thing. There are too many cases where it seems like the artist threw in a character just for the sake of having a cute girl in the scene. If you really want/need to add a character, there are so many other types of interesting people in the world, apart from schoolgirls.

Or maybe I'm just ranting as I'm wont to do.

>>7335

if the artists didn't draw girls in they wouldn't draw at all. only a few people on pixiv ever draw just landscapes. this is anime art, and therefore its natural to expect anime girls in it. its called fantasy. if you dont want girls in your landscapes, then go out and take a picture.

>>7335
I see where you're coming from and must concur.
As much as I enjoy anime, at times some of the characters just seem misplaced.

>>7337
I dunno. I'd have to disagree, though in my case the matter seems to go beyond schoolgirls, mismatched characters and backgrounds always look rather nice to me. Sometimes more entrancing, I suppose.

>>7337
I think it is more of a problem of the artists putting more detail into the girls than they do into the scenery. They go to heavy on the lines, which draws attention away from the scenery. If they use lighter lines and help them to blend in with the foreground, then they would be less noticeable but still apart of the scenery, like how a solitary rock or tree is equal among all other parts of the scenery.

lol at captcha: spaming

this wall in rather famous...

shanghai... hard to believe that this once was such a rustic port isn't it?
yet the VOC travelled half the world for those spices, those sailors (and ships of course) really where amazing...

A Hakka Tulou house, a village in a fort. Image is from http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/00NaUR .

Also, note that >>8786 is the Potala Palace in Tibet, so whether it qualifies as "China" depends on who you ask.

>>8790

knew that, but it's easier to name the tread 'China' instead of 'China and the countries that may or may not be legally added to the republic, but are a de facto part of China anyway'.

those Hakka houses are really cool btw, would really like to seen them IRL some day

the west watchtower of the Forbidden City

Not photos, but I've got a couple of pics with a pretty chinese feeling.

"Special technologies were created during the era. Here, image captures using a special film are shown of a nuclear explosion in Operation Dominic over the Kirimati atoll in the Pacific in 1952. The image was captured using special XR film, which made it possible to photograph the detonations with a single high-speed camera, despite tremendous fluctuations in light intensity."

"The XR film enabled the photographers to capture the power of the weapons in brilliant orange, yellow and red tones, creating highly alienating images of "psychedelic quality," says US documentary filmmaker Peter Kuran, who is working on the story of the "atomic filmmakers." The US space agency, NASA, later used the technology to photograph its moon missions."

Most of these images are still under lock and key today. Only military physicists are permitted to analyze the images for the purpose of improving the designs of bombs. The US government is still hesitant to release the photos and films completely.

But it is critical, says Kuran, that the material be processed and digitized, "before it turns to dust."

Beautiful images, yet so disturbing when you consider what they really are. Strange how things like that work.

This video isn't really scenic, but it's highly relevant to the thread. And also sort of strangely poetic, in a terrifying way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpQNfcRE1o

"Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" is an animated map showing the 2,053 nuclear explosions that took place around the world during the 20th century, from the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998.

The month and year are displayed in top right corner, and the number of nuclear explosions for each country appear next to the flags in the margins. The total is displayed in the bottom right corner.

The numbers reveal that, on average, 1 nuclear explosion occurred every 9.6 days during the 54-year period, with the greatest activity in 1958 and 1962.

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those are awesome.
Is this one maybe by the same artist?

>>6422

YES! Where on earth did you find that? I have almost all of his illustrations, but it seems I missed that.

so many stars...
so many people...
so very alone...

Is it okay if I'm contributing a bit to your thread? Always nice to see people posting.

This is a "girls and scenery" thread now, if OP doesn't mind. Is that okay?

I had a hard time finding an image in my "fantastic" directory that wasn't already posted here.

Thanks guys.

Most of the images in http://www.wakachan.org/yuu/res/6412.html fit this theme. I've especially liked >>6419.

Really amazing, thanks alot!

>>8585

Any artist for this particular piece?

>>8591 Apparently called Harvester. His/her/it's pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=139532

Also drew this.

"Robin's Nest" O'ahu

Crazy ice cream O'ahu

Sunset Waikiki

Do you reside in Portland or were you on visiting?
I reside in Portland, I'm quite sure that I could Identify the location from which you took some of those photos, I may even have matching examples, but its a big task to dig through my poorly organized photos directory.