Wide views

A few months ago I played around with varying success, stitching together several series of shots taken with my little Pentax camera to make a number of wide or ‘panoramic’ views. They’ve been sitting on my PC hard drive ever since and after I’d cut my grass on Sunday, I decided to have another go at it. The pictures I’ve created aren’t exactly comparable because the shots used in each series have not been taken from the same viewpoints but I thought I’d share them so you can see how much the place has changed over the intervening months. Some of the images are pretty big so ideally you need quite a fast broadband connection, which we don’t have here, to view them. In each case, the most recent image is shown first followed by the comparable picture from June/July.

First, a view from the northern, kitchen, end of the house showing both grassy areas at the front and back.

Now a view back towards the house taken from the north-eastern corner.

And now a view taken from the south-eastern corner.

The next image is of the view over the hills to the east across the field opposite my house.

And finally, this last pic is one that I did for fun. If you can imagine standing where I took the last pic from and turning round to face my house, this is the view that you would see. It is rather distorted as it covers a view of 180 degrees and although there is a slight curve in the road, it doesn’t bend anything near as sharply as this picture might suggest 🙂