Back from holiday

As a snapper cum semi-serious picture taker the advent of the digital camera and associated software to manipulate the results has fundamentally changed the way I take pictures. While I’ve been away I’ve been able to take many more pictures than with film – and discard the ones I don’t want before they get to the developing lab. So far so normal. But I’ve been experimenting with a piece of software called Autostitch which is “the world’s first fully automatic 2D image stitcher”. What I CAN say is that my first results from using it, even with hand-held shots, are really exciting. Here’s one to show you:

OK, so it cuts across my elegant blog design, but I just couldn’t make it any smaller and still give the effect!