Avalanche Lake Photograph Analysis

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Everywhere look today, there is garbage on the ground trees cut down, and polluted water and skies. This is not a new sight for anyone by any means, whether you live in a big city or a small town, you see garbage everywhere. Even as the months change it seems as if the garbage follows. Day by day more is added on top of the existing trash, it covers the ground, and clouds up, and ruins our water and skies. Humans are to blame for the excessive amounts of debris in our world, but, in some places were the garbage hasn’t taken over we have places like this photo. The photo of Avalanche Lake located in Glacier National Park, in Montana, shows us that what we see in our everyday lives isn’t all that is out there to see. The photograph shows us a beautiful, healthy sky with white plump clouds that float effortlessly next to one another. Thick, green trees as far as the eyes can see lined perfectly along the border resting on clean ground, and, although water pollution is something that we see in almost every body of water, looking here it’s calm, and fresh. It is a habitat that is perfect for wildlife to grow and live in. Clean skies make for a healthier and safer life. The photo shows a blue sky with scattered white, puffy clouds resting above snowcapped mountains in the distance, laying as nice patches of shade when above. Its bright rays coming down to the trees making them grow as it does for the foliage. The snow scattered on the mountains is a bright, clean white which reflects the sun. Looking at the sky we don’t see huge smoke stacks polluting the sky with foreign containments. The sky is a rich blue, free of any smog. It’s clean, clear, and gives the animals of flight a clean space to travel. Looking over the trees we don’t see jet trails from the planes flying overhead. Showing no signs of any pollution in it the sky looks as if it is an endless sea of blue. Looking at the mountains they look natural and not touched by man mining out important minerals and other resources. The curved, steep side of the mountains near the beginning of the water shows no graffiti to ruin the peace of untouched nature. They are as they would be found in a time where there was no human presence. Beneath the rich, blue sky the tall huge trees stand over the dark green foliage below. Following the rocky border of the shoreline, finding a piece of trash is as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. Un-littered shore line shows a healthy environment to sustain …show more content…
Even our parks, streets, and forests are being littered by the never ending problem of excessive garbage. It’s something that humans have grown accustomed to in everyday life. But those days that people find places as natural and untouched as this gives a view of how life with no destruction of nature looks. The picture of this nature scene shows a side of life rarely seen today. It shows us a clean environment where animals can live with no pollution. Its shows a clean life for plants to grow and thrive, there is no mining, or cutting down trees. Life here is not touched by man, and because of that, all the wild life is able to

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