Panorama

[daveh]

From time to time I take a series of shots and stitch them on photoshop. Normally I just shoot freehand, making sure I have the camera just about level, with a little overlap from one frame to the next. Occasionally I do manage a half-decent 360^o final shot., which is normally stitching about eight or ten shots together, but normally it is three or four.

A 360 at the rugby club - pretty boring subject really.


Looking over the Dee Estuary form Thurstaston Hill. The rugby club is just visible on the right.

Had it just been a little clearer you would have been able to see better the Little Orme and the Great Orme, which sit one each side of Llandudno, just behind the low headland on the left bank of the estuary.

LLandudno, North Wales, with its pier. This is within striking distance of the industrial North. It grew up in the Victorian era, when trains allowed people to move round fairly easily. The Great Orme is the big limestone headland forming the backdrop.


(if anyone is interested how to pronounce Llandudno, it's not as it looks. The double 'l' sound is a bit like 'thl'. The 'u' is pronounced as an 'i' - so we end up with Thlandidno or thereabouts.)

[colray]

The LLandudno picture is just fantastic.. nothing like my local beach

[Randy]

One of my Minoltas has a panoramic feature. I bet there's no place around here where I could get it processed.

[nikkortorokkor]

Dave, these must be taken in the land of my Fathers (well, mothers actually - the Roberts side.

I think that the latter two shots have worked very well.

The gorse is well out in flower. It is an all too common sight down here in NZ. Originally brought over as hedging material, it has flourished to become a thorn in farmers' sides (pun fully intended).


MT

[daveh]

Michael, it spreads like wildfire and can be quite a threat to other plants.

Sometimes fire is used to control it. In some places control burns are done. On "the hill" there are often spontaneous fires. Whether someone gives them a helping hand at times is uncertain. Old gorse really does burn well. That is also true of the heather.

If there is a fire it is amazing how fast the pompieres are there - and, indeed, how fast the vegetation recovers.

The rugby pitch and the gorse are are on the Wirral peninsula, which lies between the Dee and the Mersey. North Wales is on the other side of the Dee.

Randy, one of the wonders of photoshop, and other such programmes, is the ability to stitch photos together. CS5 is much better at it than CS3 - I think because each frame is equalised before being stitched.

Col, there is sand which is exposed when the tide is further out.

Dave.