IOTW: Wadi Rum panorama

Bruce — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:00:09 +0000

Sometimes a landscape is just so vast that even a wide-angle lens can't do it justice: you need to make a panorama. This one is stitched together in Photoshop from three separate 6 MP images. The shots were taken handheld from the roof of a Landcruiser, using the "overlap by a third" rule I picked up somewhere (I'd have preferred a tripod to make this easier). Knowing that differing exposures can make blending the images tricky, I returned to the same target area on the left and locked focus and exposure before re-composing for the middle and right-hand images. Click thumbnail to enlarge image Wadi Rum panorama, Jordan Want to see more from IOTW? Click here for an archive view.

Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan

Bruce — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:55:20 +0000

From http://www.bioneural.net :

In September through October 2005 we joined a whistle-stop group tour of three Middle-Eastern countries: Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Sat 17 We arrived in Beirut to a 27-degree welcome, enticing us to remove our UK-donned fleeces. Distant explosions were thankfully fireworks but this is not a ready assumption: a car bomb had exploded the night before our arrival. Zyad, our tour leader, escorted us to a small bus for transfer to the hotel. It was night when we arrived, and the cityscape looked not unlike a Turkish city but for the Arabic script mingled with the English and occasional French. Hotel Berkley was near the centre of town. The bus door opened to the distinct smell of sewage—not all together in keeping with the 6 stars above the hotel name. The man on reception told us, however, this was actually a 7 star hotel. With a cold beer on arrival, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, lounge and kitchen we weren't disappointed, but rather thankful it wasn't the 2 or 3 star (local rating) accommodation we had been expecting... Pigeon Rocks, Beirut Sun 18 The morning began with a city tour, initially by bus past the site where Ex-PM Hariri was killed in a car bomb. Adjacent to the Corniche in the Raouche area are the Pigeon Rocks. On foot we passed a number of fine-looking buildings that would not be out of place in any European city. Indeed, partly because of the familiar advertising brands, Beirut looks rather westernized. There were signs of the civil war (a ...

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IOTW: Wadi Rum panorama

Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan