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"Lay these words to heart, Lucilius, that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the applause of the majority. Many men praise you; but have you any reason for being pleased with yourself, if you are a person whom the many can understand?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
"Lay these words to heart, Lucilius, that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the applause of the majority. Many men praise you; but have you any reason for being pleased with yourself, if you are a person whom the many can understand?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
The only clue that could narrow this down would have to be the cross, more particularly that symbol at the center of it, but I don't know what it signifies. In Southern Europe crosses on mountain tops are quite common, but this one's small, not particularly high up, and in woodland. It would not be visible from very far.
Other than that, I've seen felling areas in Sweden that tend to look quite like this with saplings and dead trees left standing and the ground covered with pine needles left by the cut down trees, but you can probably find the same scenes, including the snow, all the way down to the Mediterranean if you go up the mountains.
So, that's a dead end as far as I'm concerned. Not enough to go on.
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I might be wrong, but I think it's a dead woods? maybe this has to do with the location's name...
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Well, crosses on peaks are common in German/Austrian places too, and as far as I can tell, the symbol in the middle is an Edelweiß. Hence why I thought of Germany or Austria. It could be somewhere in Südtirol though, the Bolzano area of Northern Italy that has a very large German/Austrian population and shares a lot of their customs and stuff.
Think you're right about that. Doesn't look like it's on a particularly high point though. I mean it's evidently not above the tree line. Maybe the photographer is standing with his back to a cliff edge or something.
@Flinn: probably a production forest. Foresters just didn't bother chopping down the dead ones.
"Lay these words to heart, Lucilius, that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the applause of the majority. Many men praise you; but have you any reason for being pleased with yourself, if you are a person whom the many can understand?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
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I've realized that I've led you a bit astray with a hint, as I found out the point is actually on the very border of two countries, one of which you already identified. Mea culpa...
Other than that, it is indeed right below the treeline, but it's not a production forest.
So it's the summit cross at Ploeckenstein on the Czech-Austrian border. The trees died because of a beetle infestation.
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