By: (Kilgore661) on August 13, 2009
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I have been trying to get this shot for a long time. There is a row of brightly coloured terraced houses in Bristol that I am very fond of. They can be seen from all over Bristol eg http://tinyurl.com/mh7jlk. I now know that this is Richmond Street and it is the rear of the properties that one can see. I figured that since the relation "can be seen from" is symmetric, there must be a cracking view from those houses but on investigation I found that there was nowhere public to stand to take the shot. As I was wandering up and down the front of Richmond Street I noticed that some of the houses had been knocked through so you could see through the house from front to back. You could get an idea of what the view must be like and it was, like, really good. So I hesitantly knocked on the door of one of the houses and asked the owners if they would consider letting me take a gigapan from their house. I am lucky enough to have good references and after writing to them explaining the ideas behind gigapans and citing my references they very kindly agreed to let me into their home.

On the day of the shoot the weather was perfect with only a little haze and this is this result. It has jumped to the top of my list of favourite gigapans overnight.

This shot is taken with the H7 + teleconverter. This combination is right on the limit of what the gigapan imager can cope with because the field-of-view is less than 2º, so I took another shot using the 400D. You can see that here http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30743.

Date Taken: August 13, 2009
Date Added: August 13, 2009
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Gear: Gigapan Epic 100 + Sony DSC H7 + 1.7x Teleconverter
Snapshots: 11
Size: 4.07 gigapixels
Field of View: 109.0 degrees wide, degrees high