The biggest problem with trying to photograph a beautiful landscape is selecting which part of it to capture. How do you squeeze all that beauty into one frame? Why can’t the camera capture everything that my eyes can see? This was both disappointing and inspirational to me, and I was determined to find a way to solve this problem. Sticking 35mm prints together with tape was certainly less than ideal.
As technology improved and digital cameras and panoramic image-stitching software became better at what they were designed to do, so it became easier to take as many photographs as I needed to capture my compositions, confident that the software would join them all together seamlessly into one large image. That was when my photography hobby turned into a passion. Now I could finally capture all that my eyes could see… and more!
All the photos below are multiple-image panoramas.
Another great mountain range photo by Paul on Teambooktu is Robinson Pass Sunset. Check it out.
Moke Lake is a small lake in South Island, New Zealand. Called Punamāhaka and Waikāmāhaka by the locals, both mean “twin waters”, describing the peculiar shape of the lake.
Paul Bruins
'Panorama Paul' is a semi-retired professional photographer, now living on the edge of the indigenous forest in Knysna, South Africa. His interest in photography was sparked off at an early age while completing a school project to build a pin-hole camera and to develop and print the results in a home-made darkroom. He is a qualified civil engineer, working most of his life for a small company developing computer software for the engineering industry. He never went far without some sort of camera though. From cheap disposables to 35mm SLRs and then to medium format, he has experimented with a large range of equipment and styles. His love of nature and the outdoors saw him moving towards architectural and fine-art landscape photography as his niche using multiple-image panoramas. He recently published a book of his favourite photos over the years in a stunning collection titled Most Memorable Moments - available at our Bookshop.
