Panorama info

If you're interested, here is some technical information about the panoramas I'm publishing here. The larger versions of the panoramas here are all 768 pixels high by whatever width, which makes the file size up to one megabyte, though the Lake Pukaki pan below is only about 225 kB. If Internet Explorer shrinks the large image down to fit in your browser window but you want to see it full size, hold your mouse pointer on the image (without clicking) and then click on the "Expand to regular size" icon that appears at the lower right corner of the image. Then it will be displayed at its full resolution and you will need to scroll left and right or up and down to view the entire image.

I recommend the freeware program (for Windows operating systems) Wpanorama for viewing panoramas or using panoramas as a screensaver. Wpanorama displays panoramic pictures by automatically scrolling them horizontally or vertically on the screen, and it is easy to install and use. You can download the panorama images from here by right-clicking on the thumbnail image or the link to the larger image and clicking on the "Save Target As..." option, or right-clicking on the larger image and clicking on the "Save Picture As..." option, and saving it to a location on your hard drive to which you can then point the Wpanorama program. Or you can download any of 240 panorama images from the Wpanorama website.

To create our panoramas, I use either the Canon PhotoStitch program that came with our Canon PowerShot S330 Digital Elph camera (with which all these panoramas were imaged), or the Panorama Factory shareware program from Smoky City Design. There are many other programs available on the Internet as well.