This post’s three images were taken within the space of twenty minutes, as we walked in a northerly direction, along part of Flinders Island’s west coast.
All three look south toward Strzelecki National Park; its peaks are the island’s highest, and they dominate its southern end.
The featured image offers a wide-angle view. (34mm focal length)
As you read this sentence, I suggest that you zoom in, so that the images below also occupy the full width of your screen.
For the photo immediately below the relevant focal length was 84 mm.
For the bottom one it was108 mm; the increases in lens-reach brought the mountains progressively “closer”, notwithstanding the reality that each of our footsteps was taking us progressively further distant from them.
Add in the constantly-changing light, the fact that we were variously moving a little higher or lower above the sea’s edge (or a bit closer to or further from it) and an awareness that choosing to stand, sit, or squat (or move the camera even a few centimetres up/down, or right/left, or opting to include or omit a nearby plant or rock) can make an enormous difference to what the camera will “see”/record…
..and, very often, photos of “almost the same view, at almost the same time” will prove “absolutely not the same”.
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