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Cadillac Mountain, Maine, USA

Part of the Acadia National Park, this mountain is located on Mount Desert Island. At just 466 metres high, it was eroded from a larger mountain range by huge, mile-deep glaciers during the last ice ages.

The town below you is Bar Harbor - not to be confused with its apocalyptic, radioactive twin, Far Harbor.

Captured in September 2018.

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Catching up with the huge backlog of photos I've accumulated and need to process - here's an autumnal bit of Maine. Captured in a bit of a hurry, coverage could be a bit better in places - not helped by running out of memory card perhaps a little early. (16GB of photos!)

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens. A bit of an upgrade from my very battered 7D, definitely. Shot at f/8, but f/11 might have been better for a bit more depth of field. (Full frame is fun.)

Workflow is pretty similar to previous stuff, although slightly streamlined thanks to Reality Capture improvements - this will get you started if you're interested:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamVR/Environments/Advanced_Outdoors_Photogrammetry

I've aimed for a pretty hefty texel density for the foreground stuff. It seems to have worked. Trees could do with a bit of cleanup, definitely.

Audio is quite placeholdery - some stuff from Freesound.org:

Rocky Mountain Outdoors: wind and bird, by petebuchwald: https://freesound.org/people/petebuchwald/sounds/288899/
Cricket, by FunkApache: https://freesound.org/people/FunkApache/sounds/393389/

Both CC0, but I'm crediting them anyway. Just try to stop me!