W/NW: Color Landscapes

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A simple bucolic scene in Adelaide's Hills
Vineyards in Autumn.

 

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Alcester Island
Milne Bay Province, P.N.G.
Alcester is known as a "Makatea Island" - named after similar type of island in Fiji.
Makatea islands were originally coral atolls pushed up from the ocean by immense geological forces over millions of years.

 

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I like how this view of the lovely Adelaide Hills from "The Lane" winery renders. Unusually for a landscape it is in portrait mode to emphasize the tall Tuscan Cypress (which is common in South Australia which has a similar Mediterranean climate to Italy.