Blog posts about panorama at Permanent Tourist

Re-photographing the Bernese Alps from a viewpoint I found last year.

The Commando Memorial stands above Spean Bridge in the Scottish Highlands, with a commanding view across the former Commando Training Depot to the Nevis range of mountains. The memorial stands for the British Commando units who trained here in the Second World War, and was unveiled by the Queen Mother in 1952.

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Birg, Switzerland

Beginning a hike from Birg station to the Schilthorn revolving restaurant, before changing my plans and walking down the very steep path to Allmendhubel and Mürren.

Melchsee-Frutt, Switzerland

Sunsets in the mountains are different from those over flatter landscapes.

Susten Pass, Switzerland

Finding a magnificent view of a scene I know well, by going up a little road and turning a corner.

Ligerz, Switzerland

A great spot to photograph the vineyards and sixteenth-century church at Ligerz, on the shores of Lake Biel.

Hiking along a panoramic path above the lake at Oeschinensee and then over-doing it on a much steeper, rockier path on the way to the Blümlisalphütte.

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Yours truly, in action whilst photographing part of a multi-image panorama at Männlichen in Switzerland last weekend.

Before the proper snow arrived at the start of this year’s winter season, we visited Zermatt and visited the famous, much-photographed view of the Matterhorn from Riffelsee.

Adobe integrates panoramic stitching in Lightroom CC

Cooing over the lovely new panorama stitching function in Adobe Lightroom 6.

A steep and stony path from the mountain hamlet of Kleine Scheidegg leads to the top of the world-famous Lauberhorn, from which the intrepid author gets an unparalleled view of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.

Google View is an online community for sharing spherical interactive images, and Google has released an accompanying smartphone app to go with it called “Photo Sphere”.

A higher-resolution version of the panoramic view from my previous post about our hike from Isenfluh, photographed from high above the southern end of the Lütschine and Lauterbrunnen valleys as they open into the Bödeli plain near Interlaken and Lake Brienz. This part of the mountain is called Chüematta: Swiss German for “Cow Meadow”.

Visiting the ridiculously picturesque castle and vineyards at Aigle, in the Rhone valley.

…is, according to Chase Jarvis, the one you have with you. By that, he means that if you don’t have your beautiful Leica or professional Nikon with you, but you have your iPhone, then the iPhone is the best camera to grab the shot that you would otherwise have missed. There’s always been a lot […]

Jo and I spent two great weeks in the highlands of Scotland, travelling from the airport up through the Trossach mountains to Rannoch Moor, Glen Etive, Glen Coe and then on to the islands of Mull, Iona and Skye before staying with Jo’s parents near the Cromarty Firth. There were few goals along the way, other […]

A small selection of panoramic images from Mürren in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.

Small gallery of panoramic images taken early in the morning in Emmental during 2005, for use as theatre backdrops.