by Jim Bellomo | Dec 20, 2022 | Photography
Yesterday I was sitting on the couch working on yesterday’s post about panoramic photos. About halfway through uploading photos, I had to make dinner, so I thought I was saving the page, but the actual button I hit was “Publish.” When I hit that, WordPress (where I host my website) sends out an e-mail, and that’s it. I can make changes to the post, but you won’t be notified when I do.
The problem was, I still had a BUNCH of pano photos I still wanted to post. So here they are, and hopefully, you will appreciate them. I have never been able to post them in the past in my daily travel pics on Instagram or Facebook because they won’t let me add them and show you the entire photo. You only get the middle part. I hope you enjoy them. Make sure to open them up on the biggest screen you have. Otherwise, you won’t get their full impact.Â
These first two are special as they depict the same scene, just taken from two different angles. I was standing in the same spot. In the first one, I started on the left with one ship in view and moved to the right until I had done almost a 360-degree turn. On the second one, I started with both ships in view and moved to the right. The first one is a BUNCH of pics stitched together.

Here are a few more with comments. And of course…don’t forget, if you click the first shot, you can scroll through with your arrow keys or by swiping…and PLEASE…don’t look at my photography on a phone. (If you have to, make sure to at least turn it sideways to view them horizontally.)
The next four are from…
our sail-in down the fjord…
that took us into…
Akureyri, Iceland.
These next four are from our recent visit to Barcelona, Spain
From Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
From the top of Casa Mia
From Park Guell
Also from Park Guell
On a sidewalk next to Plaça de Catalunya
Here’s some from our stop in Dubrovnik, Croatia. I climbed the walls that day and walk all around the city, so lots of chances for panorama photos.
Those seem to be the only multiples I have left, so here’s the rest with captions.
This is the off-leash area of Marymoor Park here in Redmond
Orangestad, Aruba
Inside the main theater on Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam
The upper deck on Celebrity Infinity
A beach on Grand Turk Island
Hilo, Hawaii
Kilauea volcano
Sailing into Kotor, Montenegro
Lake Elsinore, California
Taken from a lighthouse in Florida just before a thunderstorm
Maui, Hawaii
The harbor in Messina, Sicily
The view from Taormina, Sicily with Mt. Etna in the background.
Looking out from Taormina to the sea
The view from Mt. Etna
The city square and palace in Monaco
Taken from the palace in Monaco
Morikami Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida
Mt. St. Helens
Ohau, Hawaii
The Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal
Changing of the gaurd at the Canadian capitol in Ottawa
Petco Park in San Diego, California
Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic
My best friends old neighborhood in Port Hope, Ontario
Outside Reykjavik, Iceland
Downtown Rochester, New York
San Diego, California
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Francisco, California
Seattle Washington from a WA State Ferry
Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Sydney Harbor, Sydney Australia
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.  —Theodore Roosevelt
by Jim Bellomo | Dec 19, 2022 | Photography
I love shooting panoramic (pano) photos. Not the kind you do with your iPhone. The ones I take are usually composed of a series of photos I have taken from the same place, with my feet firmly planted on the ground. I swivel my upper body and shoot anywhere from six to 15 photos. Before I start shooting them, I take a photo of my left foot. Then when I finish, I take a photo of my right foot. When I am doing my photo triage, later on, I know where the pano starts and ends.
Then I process those photos in Camera RAW and stitch them together in Photoshop. From that, I have gotten some pretty good panoramic photos. But I will let you decide. I decided to put together this post because I have so many panoramic photos, but I can’t post them on Facebook or Instagram because they crop them severely. When I do, you can only see the very center section. So here are a few of my own with a caption that tells you where I took them. As you will see, I take them both indoors and out, of scenery and people as well. Anytime I have a subject that won’t fit into one frame. My shortest (the indoor one in Naples) is only three photos stitched together. My longest (not sure which one) might have as many as 20.
Don’t forget, if you click the first shot, you can then scroll through with your arrow keys or by swiping…and PLEASE…don’t look at my photography on a phone. To really see these, you have to see them BIG!
My best pano…Puerto Vallarta sunrise
My most recent pano…The Boeing Museum of Flight
Victoria, British Columbia
Venice, Italy
Cinqe Terre, Italy
Split, Croatia-1
The first Olympic stadium, Athens, Greece
Taromina, Italy
Bonaire
Split, Croatia-2
Taromina, Italy
New Orleans, Louisiana
Toronto Aquarium
Athens, Greece
Niagara Falls, New York
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Mariner Spring Training Game, Peoria, AZ
View from the Acroplis, Athens, Greece
Athens harbor, Athens, Greece
Sedona, Arizona
The Parthenon, Athens Greece
Kotor, Montenegro
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Naples, Italy
Taromina, Italy
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Akaroa, New Zealand
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dunedin, New Zealand
Interior of the dining room on Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam
The beach at Seaside, Oregon
The Biosphere outside Tucson, Arizona
Bonaire
Bonaire
Avalon Harbor, Catalina Island
Celebrity Century
Downtown Curacao
Dawes Glacier, Alaska
Allure of the Seas
Inside a mall in Naples, Italy
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up – or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.
—Marchel Duchamp