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This is the view from the roof of Bath Abbey.
I am amazed by this pano because I never expected it to stitch. I was delighted to get access to the roof of the main tower of the abbey, but dismayed when I realised the parapets were too high to see over, so there was no clear view of anything, and each corner of the roof has some tall stonework so even if I could get a view from one of the sides of the tower then I wouldn't be able to take a 360° pano. Given there was nothing else I could do, I held my camera over my head as high as I could and pointed it in the right general direction and took about 12 shots. I repeated this blind shooting on each of the four sides of the tower. Amazingly, not only did the four separate views stitch but the four views stitched into a 360°. Obviously there is a certain amount of distortion and parallax, but still, this is rapidly becoming one of my favourite shots. For a view of what is beneath the photographer's feet, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7547. |
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This scene has contained two pieces by Sophie Ryder (http://tinyurl.com/lwsb2f) for some time now. I am really glad I finally managed to drag myself out of bed early enough to beat the tourists and take this shot.
It looks real nice in Google Earth. |
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The interior of Bath Abbey.
A quick hand-held pano. I really recommend looking at this in Google Earth. For a view from the roof of the abbey, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7536. |
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My thanks to Hexham Abbey for their 'non-commercial use' permission to take this panorama.
This is a 360° panorama of the inside of Hexham Abbey (once described as the finest north of the Alps), showing some of the wonderful details in the ceilings, walls and windows. |
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The historic core of Hexham has the Abbey on its west side, the Market Place at the centre and the Moot Hall & Old Gaol (both hidden from view in this panorama) on the east |
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Viewed through the Bandstand, the Abbey is at the centre of Hexham's historic core. The Abbey Grounds are a tranquil haven of a wide range of trees, while Beaumont Street (seen centre right) has the Queen's Hall Arts Centre, library and theatre as its centrepiece. The Market Place is hidden beyond the Abbey. |
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The town of Kelso in the Scottish Borders is on the junction of the river Teviot and the River Tweed. The castle in the background is Floors Castle, home of the Duke of Roxburghe. Kelso Abbey on the right is from the 13th century. The junction pool under the bridge is famous for salmon fishing. This bridge which crosses the Tweed, was designed by John Rennie of Haddington. His design is unusual in that it has a level road over semi-elliptical arches. Opened in 1803, the bridge has its Toll House on the town side. This demand for tolls led to the reading of the Riot Act in 1854, when the townspeople, tired of paying for the bridge, whose cost they reckoned had long since been covered, rioted. Later, in 1857, the tolls were removed.
Rennie later designed bridges for London, the Kelso Bridge being the design he used for Waterloo Bridge which was completed in 1817. When the Waterloo Bridge was dismantled in 1937, two of the lamp standards from that bridge were gifted to Kelso and still stand at the far end of the bridge from the town. Kelso Abbey on the right is from the 13th century. The junction pool under the bridge is famous for salmon fishing 220 pictures taken with a Canon SX1 on manual settings see also www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26162 |
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The Benedictine abbey in Tyniec seen from the other side of the Vistula river.
80500x10500 pixels, 145 images, Canon G9 @ 200 mm equiv., LR 2.3, GP Stitcher 0.4.4090. |
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View of the north side of Hexham Abbey with Church Row houses on the left and a glimpse of the Market Place in the centre. This area of grass was the old graveyard and is about a metre higher than the surrounding land. |
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Another in the series of panoramas based around the historic core of Hexham and its wonderful Abbey. This shows the Market Place with the Abbey at its west end and the old Moot Hall at the east end. Beaumont Street (seen in previous Gigapans) comes in from the south and exits as Market Street to the north. Just left of centre is Hallstile Bank, a road leading north east originally becoming Alemouth Road an old toll road leading all the way to the east coast of Northumberland. Well worth exploring by clicking on the 'View in Google Earth 4.2' button |