Art mountains / real mountains
I had always assumed that the craggy mountains in traditional Chinese art were poetically licensed exaggerations of a convoluted landscape ... until I went to Guilin and found them as magnificently improbable as the painterly renderings.
(Sorry for the funky photo. It was an Ectachrome slide that deteriorated for years before I scanned it … from a shot that was technically flawed to start with.)
Very cool. I love that both images have so much in common, in addition to the mountains -- the fluffy trees, the water running along the bottom, and even the tiny people in your image.
Hard to believe those mountains exist. And your photo looks more like a painting than the painting!