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Here are additional images of El Chaltén in Patagonia (Argentina) by Ramiro Torrents. I find the photographer's framing and use of color to be especially striking. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Ramiro Torrents

In my last post, I mentioned the Patagonian Mountains as being a wonderful inspiration for mountains in fantasy, so here are some splendid images. The first two photos are of the El Chaltén range in Argentina. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Ramiro Torrents

The Pale Mountains (Monti Pallidi), also known as the Dolomites (Italy), exemplify many aspects I associate with adventure across fictional mountains. Patagonia and the Yellow Mountains also possess these astounding aspects. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Max Rive

Announcing a release of new work! Over 180 new Colorado fall color images are now up! Whew. What a whirlwind of work! https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/gallery/colorado-fall-colors-2026/

The Second Battle of El Alamein began #OnThisDay in 1942, forcing Axis forces to retreat from Egypt and Libya. Beneath this wartime landscape lies a much older story, as archaeology reveals a Greco-Roman settlement alongside the WW2 shelters. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

This October, Chiricahua National Monument (Arizona) becomes the U.S.'s 64th national park. Chiricahua is called the “Wonderland of Rocks.” It is an expansive region of hoodoos, spires of rock formed by erosion. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Sean Parker Photography

Wide angle mushroom photos from this year.

Sharp peaks rise from the jagged cliffs and red dunes of the Wadi Rum Desert (Wādī al-Ramm), a beautiful region of colored horizons set across the arid expanse of Southern Jordan. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Karol Nienartowicz

The Aqueduct (2025)

The morning mist sweeps across the verdant knolls of the Italian countryside, where each rise is an island in a sea of white, by Mads Peter Iversen. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Mads Peter Iversen

Photographer Filip Hrebenda captures the mountains of Northern Norway with the sun low in the sky and the mist high in the air as the twilight-touched fog swirls around peaks and cliffs. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Filip Hrebenda

The beautifully verdant grazing lands of the Azores. The volcanic soil produces fecund fields partitioned with simple barriers of stone that form a chessboard-like pattern across the rims of ancient volcanoes. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Karol Nienartowicz

In California's White Mountains rests the protected region called the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. A particular location there is named the Methuselah Grove, and it is home to a 4,858-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Noel Casaje

Lake Bled (Slovenia) contains wonderful elements for a fantasy adventure. Bled Castle crowns a cliff above a vast blue lake, and a monastery is nestled upon a forested isle. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Jošt Gantar; Regina Pilgrimages; Donna Allport Corser; & Faria

A phenomenon known as sprite lightning, or red sprites, can appear high above thunderstorm clouds. Photographer Paul M. Smith recorded images of the positive bursts over the remnants of Hurricane Polo (September, 2026). #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Paul M. Smith

The Northwest of the United States in Autumn. The first image is Multnomah Falls (Oregon), famous for the bridge that spans the second cascade and offers a stunning view of the pool formed by the primary waterfall. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Jess Wandering

The volcanic landscapes of Iceland, as captured by Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson. In fantasy stories, volcanic regions are often treated in a negative light despite the richness of life held within such regions. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson

The ‘rainbow arch’ and the remains of the 12th century church at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LindisfarnePriory #HolyIsland #Northumberland

Covered train tunnel #photography

A number of fantasy locations from novels and games (such as The Witcher) are inspired by the Dolomites, also called the Pale Mountains because of the whitish sedimentary material called dolomite. And, of course, the snow and mist. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #writing 📷: Max Rive

When a D&D character's family reportedly is gone/lost/destroyed, then ... who is most likely to come back as a surprise for vengeance? A. parents B. brother or sister C. family pet D. another creative idea Here is the online poll ... www.youtube.com/post/UgkxXZj... #dnd #ttrpg #worldbuilding

The Dolomites compose the Southern Limestone Alps of Northern Italy. Their distinct coloration, along with their mist-soaked slopes, has earned the region the name the Pale Mountains (Monti Pallidi in Italian) throughout history. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Samuel Scicluna

Southern auroras at twilight weave such vibrant lavenders, that gentle purple hue a halo above a crest of gold. Photographer Paul Wilson captures the Aurora Australis from the Port Hills (Canterbury, New Zealand) on December 2nd, 2023. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Paul Wilson

These Icelandic images by Filip Hrebenda are quite striking, especially the first, which depicts a dark island beneath the green bands of a night-sky aurora. That particular image feels like it is right out of a fantasy story. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Filip Hrebenda

Arid realms, the rolling landscapes of sandswept horizons and barren formations of sun-drenched stone, contain a beauty often overshadowed by more verdant regions. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Isabella Tabacchi in Saudi Arabia (isabellatabacchi.com).

While Dartmoor National Park (South West England) is famous for its tors, highlands, and morrs, it also holds beautiful, mist-wreathed forests, and the whole region is rich in antiquities and archaeological sites. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Neil J Burnell

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The absurd beauty of the Dolomites, as captured by Max Rive, represents the elements held in some of my favorite fantasy art pieces, such as a sense of scale, of natural wonder, of stepping into the unknown toward adventure. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Max Rive Photography

These images of iceland by photographer Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson provide wonderful real-world inspiration for locations in fantasy stories and #D&D games. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art 📷: Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson

For me, passage through valleys accented by precipitous cliffs and peaks embodies travel in fantasy adventure. A place that embodies this is Yosemite. These *cool* winter photos of Yosemite are by photographer Michael Shainblum. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Michael Shainblum

Medieval Building Discovered on Norwegian Island www.medievalists.net/2026/09/medi... #Norway #medieval

The photo is award-winning image (Norway) by Filip Hrebenda. It holds that evocative sense of adventure inherent in Romantic-era paintings, the fog a curtain presenting the threshold into unknown. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Filip Hrebenda 🖌️: Caspar David Friedrich (1818)

Auroras in Denmark by photographer Mads Peter Iversen. Auroras come in a variety of hues, based on where they occur in the atmosphere. Blue and purple most often occur when the aurora is only 60 miles above the Earth's surface. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Mads Peter Iversen

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) is one of the rare regions touched closely by both great oceans of the world, which fundamentally shape its climate. This unique environment gives rise to forests and fjords seen nowhere else. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Noel Casaje

Prior to the construction of Hohenschwangau Castle in the 19th century, a fort known as Schwangau (literally the Swan District) stood atop the forest-swathed hill. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Manuel Dietrich; Dan Mihai Pitea; Andre Gallino; & Dima Sakharov

Feeling very lucky to have clear skies and northern lights while in Iceland. Taken on September 8, 2026 near Vestrahorn Mountain. I love how the shadows and streaks in the sky resemble a mountain. #astrophotography #astronomy #northernlights

Enthroned upon Mount Hohenzollern is a castle that bears the mountain's name. The fort is the third citadel to stand upon the peak. The first was built in the 1100s and was utterly razed. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Berengar von Ow; Cristian Rudolph; & Marcel Siebert

One of my favorite geological features is karst towers, shaped from soluble rock and hewn by erosion. Pictured below is Khao Phing Kan (Thailand), a famous coastline marked by karst rocks and caves. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Diego Delso; Petra Hudson; & Telgaa

Liminal space is a term I continue to see, and one of the most iconic thresholds is the shore of the sea, that interstice between two dramatically disparate environments. Mads Peter Iversen captures that feeling on the Irish coast. #writingcommunity #writing #photography #art 📷: Mads Peter Iversen

The autumnal colors of Owl Creek Pass and Deb's Meadow (Colorado) by Daniel Forster. While reading about autumn, I was reminded of adjectives for the seasons, such as vernal (spring) and hibernal (winter). #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Daniel Forster Photography

The first objects of the West Yorkshire Hoard were found by detectorist Frank Andrusyk near Leeds #OTD in 2008. The early medieval hoard comprises four gold rings, one with a garnet, a gold brooch fragment, gold ingot fragment and lead spindle whorl. 📸Leeds Museums and Galleries

The Silverdale Hoard was discovered by detectorist Darren Webster in a north Lancashire field #OTD in 2011. Made up of 201 silver artefacts, it is one of the largest Viking hoards ever found in the UK. 📸British Museum

The morning mist of the heather lands in the Netherlands by Albert Dros. A heather region is a specific ecosystem notable for small lavender or white flowers that grow predominantly on moorlands or hilllands. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Albert Dros Photography

The mist-mantled mountains and frost-frocked forests of Zion National Park. If alliteration is a sin, I am damned. Also, some of my favorite fantasy images contain elements of fog. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Noel Casaje

Here are several magnificently towering mountains in Northern Norway by photographer Filip Hrebenda. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D #ttrpg 📷: Filip Hrebenda Photography

The 15th century south doorway of St. Mary Magdalene Church at Debenham in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Debenham #Suffolk

The medieval walled comune of Monteriggioni (Italy) traces its fortifications to 1214, during its warring-state period with Florence and the Bishop of Volterra. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 🎥: nicola_c_fly

The photographer Filip Hrebenda captures the deserts of Saudi Arabia through different caves at various times of day. #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Filip Hrebenda Photography

Iguazu Falls (on the border of Argentina and Brazil) is a series of staircase cataracts and part of the "largest waterfall system in the world." #writingcommunity #dnd #photography #art #D&D 📷: Julia Baggio; Tom Friedel; Esin Üstün; & Martin St-Amant