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Tour Around Isle of Man

The scenery colors are very saturated, but this becomes less so when you lower the visibility (add haze) - this really actually can make for a very striking visual experience, as the haze will desaturate the colors of the terrain farther into the distance, and leave the terrain nearest to you still brilliant in color. The colors of the terrain of course become less saturated the closer you get to dawn and dusk. Fortunately for me, I like color. ; )

Another of the great things about ES sceneries, is that they make sure to provide different ground textures for all four seasons, which is quite unusual for photo scenery.

On my own personal setup, I've had the Horizon England VFR photo scenery for FSX for quite some time now, complete with the trees addons from Earth Simulations and the airport addons from UK2000, which I have been extremely happy with - no need to replace that. I also have all of the ES sceneries (Alderney, Scilly Isles, Guernsey, Shawburry Fields), so I haven't seen any need to ditch all of that, for which I really love - able to fly all amongst this region with superb scenery that is authentic in every detail, and that all of which blends together so nicely. Each of the ES sceneries themselves provide for a unique nugget/area to fly around or fly to, with many unique and individual sights at each location.

Here are a few more screens that didn't make the cut the first time around. As mentioned earlier, these screenshots were taken without the scenery and autogen sliders set all the way up - with the autogen density at full, I don't think there is a structure on the island that isn't reproduced. When you pay attention to all of the various buildings (of so many different shapes, sizes, colors), there is a tremendous amount of different buildings throughout the cities and over the span of the island. There are some streets of houses where each house appears to be a different color (likely matching exactly the way they are in reality).



















 
Bomber_12th said:
The scenery colors are very saturated, but this becomes less so when you lower the visibility (add haze) - this really actually can make for a very striking visual experience, as the haze will desaturate the colors of the terrain farther into the distance, and leave the terrain nearest to you still brilliant in color. The colors of the terrain of course become less saturated the closer you get to dawn and dusk. Fortunately for me, I like color. ; )

Another of the great things about ES sceneries, is that they make sure to provide different ground textures for all four seasons, which is quite unusual for photo scenery.

On my own personal setup, I've had the Horizon England VFR photo scenery for FSX for quite some time now, complete with the trees addons from Earth Simulations and the airport addons from UK2000, which I have been extremely happy with - no need to replace that. I also have all of the ES sceneries (Alderney, Scilly Isles, Guernsey, Shawburry Fields), so I haven't seen any need to ditch all of that, for which I really love - able to fly all amongst this region with superb scenery that is authentic in every detail, and that all of which blends together so nicely. Each of the ES sceneries themselves provide for a unique nugget/area to fly around or fly to, with many unique and individual sights at each location.

Here are a few more screens that didn't make the cut the first time around. As mentioned earlier, these screenshots were taken without the scenery and autogen sliders set all the way up - with the autogen density at full, I don't think there is a structure on the island that isn't reproduced. When you pay attention to all of the various buildings (of so many different shapes, sizes, colors), there is a tremendous amount of different buildings throughout the cities and over the span of the island. There are some streets of houses where each house appears to be a different color (likely matching exactly the way they are in reality).
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John, your screen shots totally blow me away. So sharp and clear. Your work has totally sold me on this scenery (and it thought it was not my tea cup). Just stunning. I'll give it a download and try a few shots myself.
 
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