Horizonscape

The idea that spawned this image was to take images of the horizon and place them together in such a way that would create stripes, so that at a quick glance it looks like maybe a painting of stripes or something similar. I did this by taking distant shots of the horizon and looping them together to get a longer, panoramic picture, and then also connecting a horizon underneath. I tried to get pictures of a few different types of horizons with different trees. I took all of the images out of the window of the car while driving on the highway through a sparcely populated farm area. Consequently, as we were driving the sun was setting, which led to a nice variety of colors and skies. I arranged them so that it gets darker going downward. At the time I was mostly interested in pictures of the sunset and those colors, but I think it would be interesting to take pictures at all different times of the day, from morning until dusk, to document the changes of the sky and lighting through the entire image. I also had wanted to get a wider variety of thick/thin lines from further and closer treelines, so getting more of these would also improve it if I worked on it more in the future.

It was meant to produce a mild illusion that becomes clearer when looked at more closely. It also was meant to play with the idea of space and landscape, because usually when you start at the treeline and look upward you expect to encounter pure sky, but instead you come across more trees coming downward.


At the start, I wanted this image to be extremely long and horizontal, but when I was putting it together it was becoming more vertical. I also realized that although I took a lot of pictures, not many of them actually worked and looked good, so I didn’t have enough to create a vastly horizontal image. However, after looking at it and thinking about it, having it vertical further distorts the expected and changes the effect created by the horizons, which I kind of liked.