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What I desire in a landscape photograph is the belief, no matter how naïve this is, that I could experience that sight in person. A landscape photograph as proo
by mrwh 4y ago
What I desire in a landscape photograph is the belief, no matter how naïve this is, that I could experience that sight in person. A landscape photograph as proof that the world is beautiful. Fantasy pictures don't have this dimension and so quickly become boring. Generated images, even those made of a mush of real pictures, don't have it either. There is no _there_ there.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoHere's an idea, free of charge. Someone, make Smart Goggles that take the landscape around you and make the same landscape particularly beautiful, striking, or stylized to the wearer, with customizable options, so you could walk around a national park and have it look like the most beautiful photo ever taken. You'll sell them like hotcakes.
- mplewis 4y ago.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoSure - but if I could say, "make this landscape look like it was shot by Thomas Heaton..." Edit: For context, the original reply (now deleted) was about how magic mushrooms were easily obtainable.
- batch12 4y agoReminds me of the video More by Mark Osborne-- though I feel like the song has changed? https://youtu.be/cCeeTfsm8bk https://youtu.be/cCeeTfsm8bk
- sdoering 4y agoWhy would anyone pay money to be in nature and put a fake optimized/idealized version on top of it? I just can't understand this need to remove reality from reality. But this may be due to the fact that I seem to become a grumpy old cynical white man.
- danhodgkins1981 4y agoThese were a big deal in the 1700s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass
- _aavaa_ 4y agoVery cool!