Columbia River Gorge Globe Panorama

Mike, this is an absolute mind bender - I love it!

The only thing you could do better in a followup is to make sure the left and right sides of the round pano blend into each other better - but that really is such a small nit.

Very creative

Wow - it looks like a path to the place the elves go in Lord of the Rings. Whatever it's called. Very fantasy-like

Thanks Geoff, Mike, Green and Cindy. And thanks for the welcome, Cindy. I don't usually have a lot of "art" work that I'd consider posting in here, and didn't think of it this time either until it was recommended that I consider it.

This image started out as a 11 shot series of the Columbia River Gorge just East of Portland, Oregon and across from the well known view point, Crown Point, which over looks the river. The 11 image panorama didn't turn out too bad, although the sky was a bit blaw from lack of decent clouds. The sunset lighting was pretty good and still shining on Crown Point and the cliff it sits on. After I had created the image I was looking at some images done in Painter IX and saw an example and explanation of how to turn a panorama into a globe... so I had to try it. Even I was impressed how it came out and I still keep looking at the full size image and follow what seems like a path around and around into the image. Had I known I was going to create this from the panorama I would have done something about the two end images so I had something that would have blended together better. I'm already looking for another panorama that will work as well as this one, but I was probably just lucky on this first one. But I'm not going to give up trying to come up with a better one.

Thanks again for the comments.

Mike