A few months ago, we talked here about the epic journey of three friends through various locations in the California with a very specific objective: to recreate, with the greatest possible degree of fidelity, the wallpapers of all recent versions of macOS. The mission was a success, but a notorious lack was felt: the recreation of the wallpaper of the newest Mac operating system, the macOS Catalina (which, at the time, was still in the testing phase).
For the intrepid trio – composed of photographers Andrew Levitt, Jacob Phillips and Taylor Gray – it was not a plea: in a new adventure, they left for the Santa Catalina Islandon the California coast to capture an image similar to the system’s standard wallpaper. The journey, of course, was fully documented on video.
The challenge to recreate Catalina’s wallpaper was greater than that of the other systems – not least because, well, we are not talking about an image taken from the ground level with a camera aimed at a landscape, but an aerial photograph taken from above the Pacific Ocean. The fact that the photograph is from the most remote area of ​​the island, at its northern tip, also did not help.
None of this was enough to stop the trio: they took the ferry to the island and made an eight-hour trail to its northern end, where they managed to dodge the strong wind to release a drone into the air and capture an image almost identical to that of Apple. .
The work was really spectacular – and there was yet another dose of excitement on the way back, when a policeman approached the photographers and said that it was forbidden to go hiking in that location at night. Fortunately, the trio received no fines or anything, and the policeman even took them back to the populated part of Santa Catalina.
Incredible, isn’t it?
via MacRumors
