Visuals

Panoramas and Composites

Over a period of years, I developed a technique for creating panoramic images—with an interesting twist—they aren't exactly panoramas by the strictest definition. Instead they are composite images with interesting stories. I included some of the decisions creating them forced on me

• Bent spires and stained glass windows
  In New York, I photographed the most beautiful church in the Americas—in my mother's opinion, and I concur. But it didn't want to fit into a single frame, even from across the street. So I inadvertently invented a compromise on the spot.
  
  
• So... does the earth really curve like this?
  I didn't intend to make this panarama hard on myself, but after opening the seven individual frames, it defied me to make it linear. It makes a great, if silly, tale of tech gone sideways.
  
  
• "Pick up" band at Golden Gate park
  As if by magic, this jazzy little combo appear, played under the bridge in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and then disappeared. They were worth skipping lunch for. Note the same panarama effect applies here too.