• bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    10 months ago

    So jealous, wish I lived near the beach. Instead all I have is this stupid field.

  • randomsnark@lemmy.mlEnglish
    783·
    10 months ago

    I know the joke is that that’s literally the same file from windows, and also the person tweeting it probably doesn’t live in the golden bay area (near Nelson, New zealand), but people really can just go for a walk and take a photo at that spot. It won’t look like this though unless you have a professional camera with a wide angle lens, because the cave isn’t very deep and it’s hard to get far enough back to get a framing anything like this, especially with the way the roof slopes down at the back. You gotta really crouch and cram yourself back in there, and even then it won’t look quite right.

    It’s Wharariki Beach, specifically.

      • randomsnark@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        I guess that would help you get all the edges of the cave in, including the little rocks at the left of frame that I seem to recall were the tricky bit, but iirc without a special lens the ratio of cave mouth to middlingly-distant islands/rocks looks off too (the rocks take up a lot less of the cave mouth than you’d expect). I think that’s what the issue was anyway, it’s been years since I was there and I don’t have my old phone to check the photos as a reference point. I know we didn’t try panorama mode but I don’t think it would have solved the issues with proportions/composition.

        You can still get some neat pictures there but I recall it being impossible (for whatever reason) to exactly replicate the composition of this one with a regular phone, even with the original as a reference and considerable effort.

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      10 months ago

      Nooo I swear this isn’t plagiarized from Microsoft don’t you see it’s totally different? See? The resolution is different and the hue is too! This image has rounded borders yeah it’s totally original!

    • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s a Liftmunk statue awaiting me there.

  • jbk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    I’ve seen this picture so often, it doesn’t even look like a regular photo taken with a camera to me.

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    I too went on a walk today and happened to pass by this nice spot. So, i took this beautiful picture.

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Do you happen to live in Scandinavia, by any chance? Because I know a couple of Vikings there, maybe you know them too.

  • SakuraCosmos@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    Working on computing is hell. Because I’ve had to flash images into drives so many times that seeing this background gives me the most negative emotions possible.

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    One day working on Helpdesk, we (not me) had a call come in that asked where Microsoft got their pictures for their lock screens and they expected a real answer.

    Someone with more patience than the rest of us found it and did eventually shared it. Gotta love the internal Google hotline.

      • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        You didn’t know? If you can’t find the answer on Google, there’s a phone number you can call where experts will search the special database for you.