Unreal real

[skip.knox]

I mean, if I just posted this without explanation, I think most people's reaction would be: AI. The mountains simply don't look "realistic."

 

[pmmg]

So why do you say so?

 

[CupofJoe]

They look like the Dolomites to me

 

[Diana Silver]

Yup, was there last Summer. You should see them in smokey stormy wisps of cloud swirling around... ^.^

 

[Mad Swede]

Ah, the Church of St John in Ranui. Ranui is part of Santa Maddalena in the Val di Funes. In the backrgound the Odle massif. Val Gardena is the other side of the massif.

 

[Filifjonken]

It looks amazing and unreal to me. But where I come from, our tallest "mountain" is 100 meters high haha.

 

[skip.knox]

I guess that was just my first impression. I've been in northern Italy (and southern Germany) a couple of times, so I did recognize the view. I was only today years old, though, when I learned that these were called the Dolomites only for the past century or two. Before that it was just the Sud Tyrol and before that it was Rhaetia. But Dolomites is named after a fellow with the catchy name Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu. So I guess we can be glad the mountains aren't called the Guy Mountains.

 

[Prince of Spires]

Wonderfull hiking and skiing in that region. And great food as well. And the whole region is a mx of Austrian and Italian. Well worth the visit.