This shot is a stitch of around 23 photos, covering a view of about 180 degrees at Loch Garry in the region of Lochaber, near Ft William toward the west coast of Scotland. This is maybe only a half hour's drive from Eilean Donan Castle, and made for the first stop off point on the 2nd day of my recent 4 day road trip round Scotland. This was one of those seductive spots we pulled over to the side of the road to take 'just one photo' and then found ourselves still there enjoying the scenery a couple of hours later... It wasn't the clearest morning but it was wonderfully still and I probably got a little caught up in our chat and the scenery so decided to attempt my most ambitious panorama yet. Two of the tripod legs were in fact underwater for this shot, and in all honesty it was probably the care and time I took setting it up which gave me the determination to wrestle it all together neatly in post-processing. I've been working on getting the images together and the stitches as invisble as possible on and off for a few days now, and finally have arrived at the image that was in my head over a week ago. Printed out this would be over half a metre tall and over 5metres long... may just do it toward the end of the year...! Oh, and the tigers... well we decided seeing as we'd be taking so many picturesque photos it might add a note of humour to anyone recapping our journey to add an extra character to our party: Tigerman. Hence he has been popping up in shots at opportune locations and times throughout the album, and for this shot we thought it might be funny to have two tigers effectively 'facing off' over the shoreline, like staking claim to the loch... (I'm the 'tiger' on the right btw) I hope this comes out big enough to make out, I had to resize massively and save as a compressed jpeg to meet the file size required, but just felt the need to share the fruits of yesterday's labour! MUCH BETTER FULL SIZED. Adam ..with a thanks to Rich (inshaala) for pointing me in the direction of the patch tool ;)