Panorama Photos

Some years back there was a craze of sorts in the US for people using 35mm film to take what were known as panoramic photos. Of course the idea wasn't anything new, but the mass-marketing of the technology via disposable and inexpensive reusable cameras made it affordable for most people. I'd guess many of you have a photofinishing envelope or three sitting around someplace, although they were of such an odd size they rarely fit into standard photo boxes or albums.

The cameras exposed about a third of the 35mm film frame horizontally and the "smaller" negative sometimes made for a disappointing, grainy photo by the time it was blown up to a 3x9 or 4x10 print; rather like the old 110-sized film so popular for pocket cameras in the 1970s.

With the advent of digital photography you can find cameras with a "panorama" setting, but I don't own one. I rely on software to stitch the images I've carefully taken - and sometimes I can actually make it work!

The image at the top today was actually four photos, taken one afternoon near sunset in Lumpini Park in Bangkok - a place we'll undoubtedly cover again. The ones stitched below were taken at breakfast in Sattahip, South of Pattaya one morning at breakfast.

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