A site intended as an informal meeting place for exchanging views about subjects relevant to the appreciation of landscapes. Members include people from the various professions connected to landscapes, as well as landscape painters and photographers and an assortment of persons with a general interest in the field. Quoting Abler, et al. (1992) C. Allen, (founder of this Group) notes: “if you incessantly rubberneck, gawk, point, explain, speculate, and argue about what you see, more or less without regard to whether it is urban or rural, physical or anthropogenic, beautiful or hideous…” you ought to be a Member of this Group.

In the front page of this site you’ll find a Message Board to post your views and also connections (left hand side panel) to relevant Links and Text Files. Under “Photos” you’ll find a number of albums with landscape paintings and photographs; this collection is intended as an “image pool” with examples that may be useful to illustrate points or arguments of your Posts.
A complementary site of this Group may be reached at
http://www.freewebs.com/jorgeg/ (not a link!copy and paste in your Favorites)
There you’ll find Essays written by members and excerpts of articles and books which may be relevant to our discussions and edited Threads from the M.B.