I post this picture knowing that it won't mean much to most of you except those in the UK and Australia/New Zealand so I beg your indulgence. This is Lord's Cricket Ground, London which is the acknowledged home of cricket, my passion, and yesterday my son Paul and I spent the day there sitting in the warm sunshine and drinking beer, watching the World Champions Australia playing a local team Middlesex. The Aussies are here in the UK getting ready to do battle with England over the coming months so this was a real David and Goliath affair and not expected to last long. It didn't, but what a result. Middlesex beat (aw hell let's make that hammered) the mighty Aussies. Yippppeeeee!!! Sorry about that but I am still excited 24 hours later. And now back to reality.

Beer, sunshine and a good game. Does not get any better than that.

Great picture, Jack! I wish I could empathise about the game, but unfortunately cricket bores me rigid - I prefer the thrills & spills of F1.... Nice grass, though, and the place is sacred! ;-) (",)

beautiful picture. It's so clear. thanks for the fillin. Bsteph

Cricket..now there is one sport I absolutely don't understand!

Jack, do you use fish eye, or multiple pics when you do these? And I dont know anything about this game, but sunshine and beer sounds really nice. .n

The image is made from four separate photographs taken with the digital camera. I then import them into the computer and use a piece of software to "stitch" them together. It's caller Live Picture Photo Vista and is very simple to use. You can also make 180 degree or 360 degree pictures. I can recommend it.

Is this software expensive, or, free? .n

I think about $50 but I am not sure

I too have the same program. If you can afford it I recomend getting the ENTIRE Reality Suite. It includes -A Photo Vista Program, A 3D image creation program, A viewer, and a program which will allow you to combine them all to create a 3D world. All you then need is a host and you can create 3D websites. I second Jack's comment the software is strongely recomended. I stiched togeather the sunset panorama I posted below in about 5 minutes max. Bsteph

...gotta think about it. Does it adjust contrasts too? I have about 20 megs of images, that I'm gonna blend together "in some day". Huge job, even vith few pics. .n

Attached Link: http://www.jackcasement.btinternet.co.uk/panoramas.htm

Sorry Antoonio, it doesn't work like that. You can't just grab three or four pictures and stitch them together. I always set out to take panoramas which means that when I take the pictures I shoot them, usually left to right, and slightly overlap each picture in the viewfinder. When I started I always used a tripod but I never do now. Just make sure you keep the horizontal the same in each frame and with a little overlap and then let the programme do the rest. It really is very simple and I take no credit for its success in my panoramas. If you haven't already seen my page of panoramas on my web site check them out. They vary from a mixture of three pictures to seven pictures stitched together. The problem I found is that by using too many pictures to make a 180 degree picture is that you end up with a very narrow picture. I usually just use three or four now. Hope this helps.

Jack, sure I have seen your galleries. Many times. :o) And I have tried panoramas too, with photoshop. Like you said, 180 and even 360 are really difficult to do, and almost impossible to present. Too narrow results, like you said. The hardest part, or so I think, is to get contrasts right, to do seamless works like you do. .n

Thanks for the tip. You know, photoshop is quite easy too. Just adjust overlapping layers transparency bit, zoom, and its kind of easy to place pics correctly. Adjust transparency back to 100, erase the edges bit, and voila. Like I said, contrasts are the hardest part, but little bit work, and few pics can be done in no time. ...curious to hear your comments about that pixtra-thing, Alpha. .n

I found panorama's to be a pain - maybe it's because of my digi - turning the camera around meant it seemed to read the light differently and I ended off with say a light picture, slightly darker one then a light one again, and no amount of adjustment would get them the same. Probably me just needing more experience!!

Guffaw. Maybe your's too good. i often don't think mine is reading any light at all!!! Bsteph

Jordy, first, try photoshop auto levels, second, overlap pics a lot, then erase edges to transparent with big brush. Another good thing, IF, you can adjust your cam to manual, use same settings for all pics, as you used in pic one. .n

Thanx Antoonio - I'll try the Photoshop bit. :-( My cam is automatic - it's the one for the idiot photographers of the world, that's why I like it so much. Not an f-stop in sight! (Sort of an expensive equivalent of a toy 'Barbie' 110 point and click, really.....) (".)