Panorama Photo

The view stretches from some high hills south of Horsens, Jutland, over the islands of a.o. Endelave, Samsø, Vejrø and Hjelm, to the Djursland landscape in Jutland. Djursland is "the nose"-like peninsula on eastern Jutland.

The landscape here is most of all created by so-called dead-ice. Characteristics are the hillstructure; depending on the exact creation they can be called drumlins or glacial lake hills.

Drumlins are created at the edge of the ice, and often a whole group of drumlins are created. On my former telepano, the landscape of Hindsholm, the northeastern part of Fyn, is such a drumlin-group. Here, Hønsepold is a typical drumlin. Imagine the edge of the ice with melting floods coming out from time to time. With the ice lying still, all the sediment and gravel will be washed out on the same place. As soon as a rock or icechunk are in the way, the sediment will pile up, and the proces becomes self-reinforcing. The drumlins will then appear like half-buried eggs: always the highest and steepest part pointing to the ice, and a longer slope pointing away.

The glacial lake hills (don't know the right english word) are typical in that they become round with flat tops and steep slopes. Hjelm is a typical example. Here you must imagine the dead ice as having melted lakes of water upon the surface. Soon the ice is like a cheese, with the lakes melting deeper and deeper. Sediment and gravel will be left on the bottom and will increase in mass from the area around it. The hills can be said to be inverted replicas of the lakes.

Pano made from 48 LF (RAW), Canon 550D, 300 mm, iso-200, f/6,3, 1/800 sec, developed in DPP (daylight, neutral, ALO off, periphal illumination, moderate sharpness), stitched in PTGui pro, contrast, downscaling and sharpness in Irfanview.