Photo Safari Oriented Visual Landscape Analysis of the Mountains Reserving Different Landscape Characters

Photo safari which is the rising amateur effort in recent years is a kind of tourism and also a part of all other types of tourism., the wide variety of landscape characters around the world are the basic materials of photography having universal language. it is differences and riches make these landscapes attractive and documentable. our country has important ecological and socio-cultural properties ın terms of these differences and riches. most of the time, it is possible to observe four seasons along the just one route of travel. bayburt, erzurum, and trabzon which are the cases of this study, are the region reserving alternative tourism resources showing different characteristics. in the context of this study; mountainous areas of the region are examined for the photo safari tourism potantials; and the most preferred mountain landscape characters are identified by revealing the components of the visual quality. the findings show that while the images of the mountain character having water landscape are the most preffered ones in the overall average, the images of the landscape rich in vegetation an the snow-covered are the highes rated images.