>panomation

The sky is huge, and views to the horizon seem to go on forever. It's very difficult to capture the immense size of clouds and landscapes in photograph, but there is an option which can bring the vastness of weather phenomena home. Panoramic photography allows the user to merge several images to form one long image, showing the entire scene. Using a very clever piece of software, the EOTS team have captured many weather landscapes, and combined them in a Java tool which allows you to pan and zoom around the scene, almost as if you were there.

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Date: Autumn, 1999 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales
A 2-photo combined landscape of a huge cumulonimbus which roared across the Cheshire Plain in autumn 1999. This cell produced flash flooding in my village and gave hail.

 

Date: June, 2001 Location: Reading, Berkshire.
A 4-photo combined landscape image looking from south-west, to north, then round to east. This Reading storm completely enveloped me after this with frequent CGs.

 

Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
A 9-photo combined landscape image looking from north, around to east, and finishing looking south. This image shows lines of storms developing along a convergence line.

 

Date: 22nd November 2005 Location: Ponderosa, Horseshoe Pass, Denbighshire, NE Wales. A 4-photo combined landscape image looking from north-east to south-east. Low-lying fog in the valley to the right would continue to flow in waves over the ridge.

 

Date: 22nd November 2005 Location: Horseshoe Pass, Denbighshire, NE Wales.
A 6-photo combined landscape image looking from east, through south, to west. Fog lies on ground below 350m, as far as the eye can see across the Vale of Llangollen.

 

Date: February 2006 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
A 17-photo, full 360 degree taken from Waun-y-Llyn country part, on Hope Mountain, Flintshire. Views to the east over the Cheshire Plain, and to the west over the hills of North-east Wales.

 

Date: 4th March 2006 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
A 17-photo, full 360 degree panomotion taken from Waun-y-Llyn country part, on Hope Mountain, Flintshire (as above). This time, cold northerly winds and snow showers leave a covering of snow on the mountain tops, and also on low ground below.

 

Date: 21st May, 2004 Location: Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
A panoramic image looking eastwards from the Island of Gugh, to St. Mary's Island. The capital, Hugh Town, can be seen partially hidden by the Garrison.

 

Date: 21st May, 2004 Location: Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
A panoramic image of the island of Gugh, as viewed from the neighbouring island of St. Agnes. The sandbar between the islands becomes submerged at high tide.

 

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