If you've visited the blog in the past few days, you were met with a message saying something like "Blog on hold due to maximum bandwidth being exceeded". This is good and bad news. It's bad news because downtime sucks, and I couldn't make any updates. It's good news, because it means that I've had lots of visitors! Of course, a lot of that bandwidth going away had to do with the heavily photo-intensive posts I made in September. So, I figured the best way to start out my fresh batch of monthly bandwidth is to have a post dedicated to huge photos!

Last weekend, I acquired some photo stitching software for creating panoramas. I went literally nuts with it. I was up almost all night for 2 straight nights stitching together anything I could find that could be fit together. One of my first efforts was one of the best. Here's a 3 photo stitch of shots I originally posted in Peru Part 6 that I've now put together into one Panorama:

See how seamless that is? Now you know why I quickly got addicted.
This next shot features the same mountain range pictured above as seen from the plane from Cuzco to Lima. The peak on the far right in the picture below is the same prominent snow-capped peak shown above.

I also got a little experimental. This panorama uses 2 photos taken by Danielle, and one taken by Ami and it's so seamless, you'd never know 2 different cameras were involved:

Of course, it would be tragic if I didn't have one of that sunset at Choquequirao. Here's one I haven't cropped yet.

Here's a favorite of mine, using photos taken by Ami:

Another favorite view, on the seldom visited front slope of Machu Picchu where I stopped to meditate:

I didn't just draw on Peru pics, though. I also used everything I could find from previous trips. Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of my original source material for the panoramas I made with my old camera, but I was also disappointed at how few of my photos could be used to make decent panoramas of the Grand Canyon.


Here's the Imperial Desert:

Roman Amphitheater in Merida, Spain

Sunset from San Jacinta mountain:

OK, that's all for now. But I'm still trying to find things to photograph and stitch together. I went to Scripps Cliffs in La Jolla last Monday to try to get a good panorama of the sunset, but I got lost and arrived after it set, then did a poor job of taking photos, so I couldn't effectively stitch them together. I may try again tomorrow.

As for bandwidth, I'm going to see if it gets close to going over again this month before I decide to pay more to have more capacity.