No itâs not. Panoramas like this are a painstaking, labor-intensive digital product, not made by just ârolling down a hillâ.
This image, âBig Sur,â is part of a series called âAlterrnative Perspectivesâ by photographer Randy Scott Slavin. It is an example of stereographic projection.Â
âSlavinâs circular panoramic digital technique is a way of seeing only made possible through digital methods and is an orientation he masterfully devised after much experimentation. The time required to capture the images and then create the photographs, which can consist of hundreds of photos âstitchedâ together to create a single 360-degree image.â (Amy Frearson, Dezeen.com. 2 July 2012)
Hereâs some more of his work:
I thought it was cool as is, but doubly so now with the right info
It took me a while to remember that in a university context, kin is short for kinesiology and i lemme tell you, hearing âsheâs majoring in kinâ nearly killed me on the spot