Borderlands Imaginary panoramic landscapes question human scale in the environment. Landscape photography is as old as the medium, and the earliest photographers used the collodion wet-plate process to capture the grand scale of nature revealing it to the masses. As earth is but a speck in the vastness of the universe, the smaller scale and familiar earthly landscapes make humans feel insignificant. Size and scale are relative, it is man in comparison to the universe, or the tiny margins of a photograph.