Today I received a photo request for some “brown landscapes”. There were very few other parameters except for “no people”. Here’s a few I picked out from around the globe although it was hard to get past the landscapes here at home in Australia.

Fields near Volterra in summer, Tuscany, Italy

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Dunes near Birdsville, Queensland, Australia

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.
Charles Sturt

Sunrise in Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Unfenced road near Windorah, Queensland, Australia

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
Bridget Riley

Monument valley, Utah, USA

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker

Horses, Windorah, Queensland, Australia

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a ‘record shot’. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell

Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
Arthur Boyd

Ormiston Gorge, Northern Territory, Australia

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

Hayrolls in Summer, Le Marche, Italy

Grand Canyon at sunset, Arizona, USA

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