A long-exposure panorama of Pachena Beach, Milos, Greece, taken in the summer of 2016 during a too-short trip to the island.

Not much to add here, other than I took this with a Fuji Xpro1 and a lightweight panorama head. This setup did remarkably well for a small and lightweight travel setup.

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We had some fog in Portland this morning, so I rushed off to the Portland Japanese Garden, hoping to catch the garden in a rare foggy moment. Unfortunately, it didn't happen, so I returned home and mined the archives, finding this panorama I took over five years ago but never really got around to assembling and publishing.

I think part of the reason I sat on this so long is that, because of the 180-degree horizontal field of view, giant Mt Hood is rendered into the ultra-tiny version of Mt Hood. It's kind of inevitable. I looked at some alternative crops that got rid of the downriver portion and the galactic center of the Milky way, and I did like the way those looked, as they made the mountain look a little more prominent, but I instead opted to go with the full panorama this time. Maybe next time, when the galactic core isn't visible, I'll take a better, close look at the mountain itself.

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It's a rainy day here in Portland, so once again I'm mining my photo archives, not unlike the folks who built this old shack in the mountains in Death Valley National Park to mine whatever ore they were after. This was from the pre-covid days, February of 2020. I was thankful that I got this trip in, because when I returned seemingly everything changed, and quickly.

There are a few interesting things happening in the sky in this panorama. First off, we're seeing a melange of zodiacal light (left side rising from the horizon to the top of the frame), light pollution (left side near the horizon), and then some airglow (right side close to the horizon). We can also see a couple of planets bathed in the zodiacal light on the left side, with the brightest by far being Venus and then above that and slightly to the right Uranus, which is quite a bit dimmer and quite blue (this is a result of the planet's atmosphere being made of hydrogen, helium, and methane, which absorbs red light but reflect blue).

Technical details: 10 total photos (5 sky and 5 land), all taken from the same tripod position at the same time. The panorama was assembled in PTGui, with final edits taking place in Photoshop.

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Just like the title says...a winter storm was rolling in, creating some interesting light and clouds. This filmstrip-like field of view created by stitching five landscape-oriented frames.

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This interesting rock formation hanging out at the edge of a fjord in eastern Iceland caught my eye on a particularly warm spring day in 2022. The drive that day through this area was absolutely breathtaking, a wondrous landscape around every corner.

That evening we hit one of the ubiquitous public pools in a nearby town, and the 58-degree F "heat wave" had what seemed like the whole town out enjoying the weather in the outdoor pool. This was also the same evening that I watched a group of teenage girls sitting stoically in what I thought was a hot tub for about ten minutes. After they left, I suggested to my wife that we should hop in there. Only after dipping a toe in did I realize they'd spent all that time in a cold pool that was only a few degrees above freezing!

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