Horizons, anyone ?

[Gurrah]

This place is where I for the first time in my life, in 1958, 9 years old, on an absolutley clear summers day, experienced a full 360-view of the world.
It was totally amazing and I was speechless, flabbergasted and just stood there on the highest point, from where this image is also created, and spun around and around, experiencing a real mindblowing high... became a real airhead...so beautiful - HOW on EARTH could I be able to share this with anyone?
(little did I know that technology would evolve so that I WOULD be able to share sights like this - in FULL 360 ! )

In 1959 when I came back, they had built an awful house that destroyed the view, and it was the first time I knew the true meaning of crying blood.

This is taken a couple of years back - WITH the radio-station-house in it - but, I wanted to "restore" the view so I took some shots on the other side of the building and did only find time just recently to sit down and "restore" it to what it should like...

The lenght of the horizon is apps 960 km all the way around.... a pretty neat distance - its like from London and past the Isle of Sky - far into the north of Scotland...
the furthest free view one has on a straight line to the object is 170 km... birds-way...

You have any neat horizons ?

[HairyHaggis]

Quite an awesome spectacle, and one that probably most of us will never get the opportunity to see. I dont have any horizons here ... and nothing that would compare to the beauty and "clean" look that you got here. It is simply stunning, in fact you can hear the silence in that photo ... lol

Brilliant, only thing is there is a faint line through the bottom 3rd of the image, maybe during stitching???

Have you any more of this place, I for one would love to see them.

[Gurrah]

an awesome spectacle... :-) well, I guess... yeah... and your right in that very few people get to come to a place like this, the more reason that I am able to show it - just the very thought that bothered me so much all those years ago... and - I didnt mean to begin with putting up some unreachable top that noone should be able to "climb over" or surpass, the intention was more like the other challanges that have been posted, that my horison looks like this, and it was a determining thing for me - your horison may not have to be like this - there are other horisons, on the eastcoast of Scotland there is one towards the continent... there is a horison to be found from the top of the mounds below Edinburgh Castle... anyways, it did set me off on the panoramic 360-journey which by far isnt over yet, and here is a link to some others, not very wide perhaps, but creating other sort of horisons inside your head... distances dont have to be physical I guess... :-)

http://www.panograf.com/omega/

this is a linkspage which will explain some and put some demands on you - like accepting that the panos are displayed with the Zoomifyer - and when you do have them visible, just zoom a lot.. :-)
Some of it fantastic... (am I a brag or ...?? :hitother: )


and the silence that you can hear... yes its there and Im happy you have senses that enable you to hear with your eyes...
right - that line... havent noticed it before, gotta go look at the origs... might take a while for I correct it... shouldnt be there...

[sandman]

I can't match the sheer beauty of that shot Gurrah , nore can i give you a panorama .
But i can give 3 horizons totally different but all within an hours drive of each other .

Brian

[Gurrah]

but it is just like that one may create a horison as well...
you give me three different ones, one a smaller private experience,
one that is shared with some in the landscape and one that isnt shared with anyone living in the cluttered city...

then, most of what ive been doing is panoramas for tha last 10 years, so I cant really compete with you guys when it comes to regular shots and angles... and Im also not at all a studio-man, im a guy with at best the cam round my neck when outdoors, shooting spontaniously at best, never really planning anything... often missing a lot because I dont make time to check the lights and all that that.. very much goin for the detail and the closeup, probably as a counterweight towards all the superwide landscaping I do...

though I´m thinkin about getting a one-leg tripod to steady my shots, impulsive as I am... the panorama-rig is just too heavy to be dragging along on a casual...

the linkpage I posted eventually takes you to a Thai-pavillion that the Thai State built (!) in the northern part of Sweden, as a rememberance to a King of theirs that were here in the 1890´s - there is a horison we cannot view physicaly, its a long way from sweden to Thailand, but going inside witn the help of the pano brings out some horisons in my head... :-)