Sometimes…you’ve just gotta look at stuff from a different angle to make your eyes and brain process things in a new way. To that end, I’ve been messing with the panoramic setting on my camera over the past several months and the results have been kinda cool…
This is one of my early favorites: With such a broad view, it takes your eyes awhile to adjust and figure out exactly what you’re looking at. I took this one while walking across a railroad bridge that spans an Oregon steelhead river:
Here’s a bunch more….
This is another from that same trip that has a sorta quiet paradise-like feel:
The scenery doesn’t have to be incredible for the panorama to be interesting, though. This one has a lot going on considering I shot it while sitting in a McDonald’s parking lot at dawn while waiting for my clients to show up…
With the super-wide shots, you also have the chance to capture the whole scene like this view of Lake Pardee…
Or this waterfall on the North Fork Nehalem River, which I could only get about half in a frame in normal shooting mode…
With the panoramic shot, you can sometimes better duplicate what you actually see. This view of my mom’s driveway as it crosses the creek I grew up fishing is burned into my mind. I walked over that bridge a million times as a kid en route to some of the better holes downstream…
And, finally, a couple other cool random river shots…
