{"id":29986,"date":"2020-09-03T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29986"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:55:47","slug":"recreating-the-big-sur-desktop-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/recreating-the-big-sur-desktop-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreating the Big Sur Desktop Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/07\/21\/friends-recreate-the-macos-big-sur-wallpaper\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/07\/21\/friends-recreate-the-macos-big-sur-wallpaper\/\"><p>The task was even more challenging this time, however, as the default  macOS Big Sur wallpaper showcases the dramatic rugged mountainous area of California&rsquo;s Central Coast region from an elevated vantage point 4,000 feet over the ocean.<\/p><p>After doing some research, Levitt and his friends found out that a drone wouldn&rsquo;t be able to get the shot, and regardless, flying drones off the coast of Big Sur is against the law. So the team got in touch with a helicopter pilot, who coincidentally turned out to be the same pilot that flew out Apple&rsquo;s own photographer to get the original shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/flying-around-the-world-recreating-macos-wallpapers\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/flying-around-the-world-recreating-macos-wallpapers\/\"><p>Above is my recreation of the macOS Catalina wallpaper taken in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.<\/p><p>And here&rsquo;s a few versions of the Big Sur wallpaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21405543\/microsoft-flight-simulator-macos-wallpaper-recreations-matt-birchler\">Grayson Blackmon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21405543\/microsoft-flight-simulator-macos-wallpaper-recreations-matt-birchler\">\n<p>Check out the side-by-side re-creations below]&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/visual-comparison-of-macos-catalina-and-big-sur\/\">Visual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/recreating-mac-desktop-picture-photos\/\">Recreating Mac Desktop Picture Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"recreating-the-big-sur-desktop-picture-update-2020-09-08\">Update (2020-09-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/how-i-made-those-macos-wallpapers-in-flight-simulator\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/how-i-made-those-macos-wallpapers-in-flight-simulator\/\">\n<p>I wanted to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EMQwm5E1xfE\">a video<\/a> that showed exactly how it's done so other people can be inspired to go out and get the rest of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: The task was even more challenging this time, however, as the default macOS Big Sur wallpaper showcases the dramatic rugged mountainous area of California&rsquo;s Central Coast region from an elevated vantage point 4,000 feet over the ocean.After doing some research, Levitt and his friends found out that a drone wouldn&rsquo;t be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-03T21:04:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"d0f8d1ec-7911-4be7-a1e3-20517694b92d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-08T18:55:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0PjR7HkRS-eh4yBRdpS5LQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1891,1976,153,626],"class_list":["post-29986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-microsoft-flight-simulator","tag-photography","tag-wallpaper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30051,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions\/30051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}