OK, lets try again with that rather effectively hidden bad link to the pictures in City Panoramic (which I’ll correct in a second.) This one to the actual City Panoramic website really does work
There really does seem to be some kind of hex on these pictures; first I simply forgot about the site, then I put it up with a bad link (or perhaps one that got corrupted when the site went down a few days back?)
When I showed the picture above, I gave it the title London Bridge but deliberately it wasn’t the most obvious of views, and perhaps the two pigeons are what stands out most. It was taken on a cold wintry day and I like the way it uses the curvature of the cylindrical perspective – it’s been called the ‘cigar effect’ – of the swing lens camera.
When I started using a panoramic camera – and this was taken with the Japanese Widelux – I found a recent book about panoramic photography in my local library which gave some useful advice. One of the things it said was essential was to avoid subject matter close to the camera. So of course I went out and did the opposite.