Month: October 2024

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Scenic Cycle 4 Round Four: Bird’s Eye View

For the week four challenge, I sent our photographers out flying on a mount to capture the view from high above! The round requirements were “any outdoor subject, while flying” and so our photographers dutifully saddled up their chocobos (and beds and brooms and capybaras) and went to try to find an aerial scene of Etheirys using the new engine.

Please look at each of our photographs in the gallery below, and then vote for your favorite in the Google poll. To view each image in a larger size, click on the center and it should open in a new tab. Voting will be open until October 9, 2024.

Bonus Challenge: The photographers are issuing a challenge to everyone not participating – can you take a good aerial screenshot of the Valley of the Fallen Rainbow in Yanxia?

A screenshot from FFXIV. Craggy islands in the Sea of Clouds float against a blue sky,
Vanu Va-View
A screenshot from FFXIV. The entirety of the city state of Ala Mihgo is visible in a wide angle panoramic shot, with a cinema frame.
Sky High Ala Mhigo
A screenshot from FFXIV. The image shows the hot springs of Camp Bronze Lake, including the surrounding stone walkways from the Nymian ruins.
Lominsan Tourism Initiative: Warmwine Sanatorium
A screenshot from FFXIV.
Fae’s Light
A screenshot from FFXIV. The image is top down, looking over the Sharlayan Hamlet.
Seconds Before Flying Into a Waterwheel
A screenshot from FFXIV. A dragon's skeleton teeters on the ledge in front of the mountains of Coerthas Western Highlands.
Dragonsong
A screenshot from FFXIV.
Dawnsinger
A screenshot from FFXIV. Mok Oogle Island in the Sea of Clouds is in the foreground, with layered effects in the fog from the other islands behind it.
Great Moogly!
A screenshot from FFXIV. The clear spire of the Crystal Tower pierces the early evening.
Slumberous Crystarium

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Scenic Cycle 4 Week 3 Winner!

The judges all expressed their difficulties with ranking the options this week – every shot was so nicely done.

But in the end, one shot edged ahead by the numbers, and that was our first Untitled shot of the contest. Congratulations!

A screenshot from FFXIV. The image shows a statue of Nald, acting as the back entrance to Forgotten Springs.
Untitlted

But wait! We also have the community votes, even if they’re just for fun, and the community also really liked You Never Said How Many Statues There Could Be and Larger than Life this week – they tied for the community votes!

A screenshot from FFXIV. Six large statues are on display from the top of the Haplon in Ishgard.
You Never Said There Was a Limit To How Many Statues There Could Be
A screenshot from FFXIV. The image shows Lord Lolorito from Vesper Bay.
Larger than Life