My first panorama shot.

[elfs]

Park Butte Panorama

I'll write more about this tomorrow, but I couldn't wait to get this out and show it to you. This is my first panorama shot; it's from the High Heather Meadow southwest of Mt. Baker, which is about a half-mile up from the trail fork where Railroad Grade Trail and Park Butte Trail separate, three and a half miles from Schweiber's meadow and above Cathedral View Camp. There's a snowpack just below where the trail on which you can see the girls drops off. It took us four hours to walk up and get this shot.

I'm not sure why there's an exposure smear right where the girls are; a friend of mine suspects that my camera auto-adjusted for the snowglare coming off the mountain, and he's probably right.

This photo was taken with a hand-held Lumix TZ1 and stitched together using the open-source tools Hugin, Autopano, and Enblend.

A (much!) larger version (4555px x 768px, 945KB) can be found here.