Both professional and amateur artists go out to nature every day to capture its beauty with canvas and paint, and the works are almost as amazing as nature itself. However, artists don’t always remain true to reality, sometimes polishing nature a little to make it look more impressive and colorful. The next 17 pictures, however, don’t need an artist's touch, and although you might mistake it for painting, these pictures depict nature itself is in all its splendor.
1. The Big Bear and the starlit night sky above Skógafoss in Iceland
4. Layers of mountains in different shades on an autumn morning in Cascade Ridge, Washington, USA
5. Autumn colors along with morning frost in the Netherlands
6. A thin river line through Þakgil in Iceland
7. A perfect horizontal line on Tupelo tree trunks after drying a swamp in George L. Smith Park in Georgia, USA
8. picturesque river in Blue Springs, northern New Zealand
9. The eruption of a volcano in Guatemala fits perfectly with the Milky Way
10. Perfect contrast of colors on a dune at Death Valley National Park in California, USA
11. The summit of the Rainbow Mountain in Peru's colorful cloud at 5,200 meters above sea level
12. Purple flowers facing a perfect mountain landscape at Glacier National Park in Montana, USA
13. A bird's eye view of the winding rivers in Iceland
14. A natural frame for an amazing picture on the beaches of Oregon, USA
15. The clear, five-color Precipice Lake in Sequoia National Park, California, USA
16. Waterfalls in Plitvice lakes in Croatia, with the colors of the seasons changing around them
17. The Milky Way erupting over Fuji on Honshu Island, Japan
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