This required only two shots taken to a pano. The tricky thing, though, was that the waves broke independently of each frame so shooting them quickly so they matched was a real effort.
don’t come here. this place sucks, as you can see.
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Excellent, Greg. In panos, like life, timing matters.
Yes, timing matters … as does location. I took the shots, so it shouldn’t amaze me, but that rock in the water at top is the same rock (Haystack Rock) that you get a close-up on in the blog just above this image. I’d just been down there, looking right at it, shooting it. It just feels kind of weird. I don’t know why.
Fabulous… I sooooo want to draw in that sand down there. 🙂
There’s a really interesting geometry to this. The bowl of the small bay in the foreground, the larger bowl of the larger bay in general and then the wide-angle distortion of the clouds also creates a subtle sense of bowl-shaped geometry. Very nice.