Beautiful Nature Photography

http://www.demilked.com/nordic-landscape-nature-photography-iceland/

WOW. Just wow. I can't believe what my eyes see. These photographs are stunning. Amazing. Gaaaah. I kind of get that LOTR feeling in some of the photos!

Some comments were a little interesting too. Some of which I liked.

"I'd prefer art to take me out of reality. I live in reality, it's nice to escape every once in a while."
"Well changing color and contrast exists since the darkroom era, circa 1900 when they invented film and negative. As great photographer Ansell Adams said: " photographies are to some degrees interpretations of the original subject values" or Alfred Stieglitz: " the equivalent of what I saw and felt". Keyword here being "felt". Telling a photographer not to use these parameters, or touch photos with photoshop is like asking a painter to do a precise and detailed portrait without a brush and with gouache."
"Exactly It can see about 10% of the tones we see at said ISO setting. Photographs are interpretations of reality. Like paintings, unless. One should never, without doubting, consider photographs as truths, they are art rendition of something. If you want to see the real thing, go see the real thing."
 "For all those who say that they wish it was just a normal photo and not photoshopped, I would like to point out that every photo is changed based on how you choose to take it and the camera itself uses photoshop like tools to change the photo. Also photography is an art form and as such you should allow the photographer the freedom of any artist to change or interpret his vision of a place. Not all photography is of the documentary style. Love it or not based on the art of it not the realism of it."
"It is upsetting when unknowledgeable people come straight to a beautiful post like this and start complaining about how it is all photoshopped. Most of these are stunning photographs taken by trained professionals who have spent years perfecting their ART. Yes...photography is an art. So, if you don't like it, then don't look at it."
"All you anti-photo shop people have got the idea wrong for these photos.

These photos have been altered, sure. But not 'photoshopped' in the stigmatised sense that you're all implying. This is LANDSCAPE photography. Google your own favourite landscape photographer and show me photos that have not been touched digitally. You won't. Cause you can't.
Photos like these have adjustments in exposure, contrast and colour, not blemish reduction or even sharpness control in most, they're certainly not having mountain size adjusted or cloud placenta altered, as would be the equivalent in media photography. And the adjustments that are made are more than likely for the photographer to replicate the scene more accurately - cameras don't capture everything perfectly the naked eye can see. I play with my landscape shots for the exact same reason and there's no poor taste behind it. Instead of criticising, how about just sit back, relax and enjoy the image as a whole, whether it's been slightly altered or not."