Current World Record of distant landscape photography

Barre des Écrins (4.102 m) is in the middle left of the image.

Taken from Pic de Finestrelles (2.820 m)  at 440 Km, before sunrise.

In the rest of the pictures, another summits can be seen further away.

By	Marc Bret (Beyond Horizons team)
Camera	Panasonic Lumix FZ72 @ ISO100 – 1/250
Lens	Integrated Zoom @ 1200 mm – f./2.8
Date	July 16th 2016

Portraying the silhouette of the Barre des Ecrins from the most distant possible summit of the Pyrenees and get a new World Distance Record has been for us the last most recent target. The result is counted in the image: a view from Pic de Finestrelles (2.820 m.) to the Alps.

Want to try yourself? Don’t forget to check our reccommended cameras!

Since we managed to do for the first time a picture of the Alps from the Pyrenees, we try to want to do portraits to other peaks, something more remote.

View the Ecrins in the broad daylight in mid-February thanks to exceptional weather conditions, with help also of a polarizing filter was a huge satisfaction after previous attempts, sometimes collectively as well as individually. I had already portrayed in January of 2015 the Ecrins mountains alsom but with a very faint result.

Last July, from a more distant peak than on previous occasions (in April I get it also from other summit before sunrise) and good weather forecast, it made a great success of visibility. The Barre des Ecrins relatively clearly manifested backlight of a sun in close position below the horizon.

To his left, other peaks of the Alps we also seen. Refractive favorable circumstances allowed to view some other peaks, even that more distant than the Barre des Ecrins. Pic Gaspard, 443 Km, is what has given us this time the brand new World Record of distant photograph of landscapes in our planet.

Some pictures and ilustrations:

World Record picture at 443 kilometers, labelled

Map of sight illustrating the overwhelming distances of this World Record

Picture with wide angle	Missing silhouettes few minuts before sunrise
After sunrise	Marc Larroya silhouette (a friend that accompanied me)

Ulrich Deuschle has a simulation of this view here:

All credits go to http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm

You can also have a look at an interactive view of this simulation here

MORE EXTENSIVE REPORTS:

You can read more extensive explains in these other two webs:

http://horitzonsllunyans.wordpress.com (catalan)

htto://ventanasdeaire.wordpress.com (spanish)

PHOTOS IN FLICKR:

You can seee a lot of more pictures of that day in this àlbum:

And more pics to the Alps of Pyriness of the same author (me) in other albums:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/markbret/albums

Facebook: facebook.com/horitzonsllunyans     Twitter: @finestresdaire

AFTER:

We are sure that other records will come soon. From the Pyrenees the options are almost finished but any attempt to increase the distance is still possible if atmospheric conditions are especially favorable refractive exceptional transparency. We’re on that. By the other hand, also, maybe next arises from another continent, from another mountain range of our planet. We think it’s really probably.

We will inform you.