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1. 7 th June 2013 View count reached 9,005 views, making it my first image to have had more than 9,000 views. In fact none of my other photographs have had more than 8,000 views. It has been featured in eighteen groups, been made a favourite by more than 115 people and sold several times as a card and as a print – all of which makes it my most popular image. It was my first photograph uploaded to RedBubble on 9th March 2010.

1. 2nd December 2012 Sold as a card

This 360° panorama was shot at the bottom of a deep wooded gully in Ness Woods, County Derry, Ireland. The tripod was standing on a moss covered ledge just above the river that carved the gully through the rock.

 
I shot this image as a moment of calm consolation, having given up on trying to reach the waterfall just along the river – and to put off the moment when I would have to scramble back up the near-vertical muddy bank with camera and tripod on my back!
 
It has been featured by eighteen Redbubble groups:

1. “Moody and Evocative”,
2. “Sold!”,
3. “Wide Angle and Fisheye Lens Photography”,
4. “The World as We See it – or Missed It”,
5. “Mini Galaxy”,
6. “High Quality Images”,
7. “Nature Photography Challenge”
8. “Amazing Challenge Entertainment”
9. “Solo Exhibition”
10. “HDR – the Purist”
11. “Featured For A Challenge”
12. “Artists Universe”
13. “Art Universe”
14. “Nature Photography Challenge”
15. “Outside The Square”
16. “Harmonious Hippies” (12 May 2012)

1. Alphabet Soup (30th August 2012)

1. 5000 Views (23rd September 2012)

 

• It received its Eighteenth Feature. This time in the group 5000 Views

	This Image received a Bronze Award in the Nature section of the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards 2011
	One of three of mine to receive a Pano Award

 
 

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1. The Judges at the SoJIE-10 Earth-Day exhibition liked it! :-)

Best in Show
SoJie 10, April 2011

The Bob Culshaw Awards
Excellence In Photography
SoJie 10, April 2011

Photographic Art – 1st Place
SoJie 10, April 2011

 

	This image is also available as part of a calendar
	Panoramic views of Ireland

 

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Method
It was created by combining 24 separate photographs, covering every possible angle and with exposure bracketing (+ and – 2-stops). Hence there is detail in the blue sky high above us and in the darkest corners beneath the trees.
 
The source Images were shot on a Canon EOS 5D DSLR with a 16mm fisheye lens and stitched and blended together using Hugin (a free open source program) and Hugin in turn invoked Enfused to create the HDR effect by combining the exposures.
 
I have written a short journal entry introducing the method by which these panoramas are created, it is called:
“Creating a Stereographic Panorama – the Basic Idea”
 

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History of this Image on RedBubblle

1. 9th March 2010 this was my first image uploaded to RedBubble
2. 9th May 2010 Sold as a Greetings Card
3. By the end of August 2011 it had had more than 2200 views, is a favourite of more than106 people and has been commented on more than 220 times.
4. A special thank you to Redbubble Member XAgita who was the 100th person to make this photograph a favourite.
5. 18th March 2012 five copies of this image were Sold as a Greetings Card
6. 24th March 2012 view count reached 4,030 views
7. It is one of the first images that comes up when a visitor to RedBubble searches for Irish Photographs
8. 20th May 2012 View count reached 5,010, it has been featured in sixteen groups, been made a favourite by over 110 people and sold as a card and as a print – all of which makes it my most popular image.
9. 8th August 2012 Became my first photograph to have a view count greater than 6,000 views, it has been featured in sixteen groups, been made a favourite by more than 112 people and sold as a card and as a print – all of which makes it my most popular image.

1. 30th August 2012 It received its Seventeenth Feature. This time in the group Alphabet Soup
2. 23rd September 2012 It received its Eighteenth Feature. This time in the group 5000 Views

1. 31st October 2012 Became my first photograph to have a view count greater than 7,000 views, it has been featured in eighteen groups, been made a favourite by more than 114 people and sold as a card and as a print – all of which makes it my most popular image. It was my first photograph uploaded to RedBubble on 9th March 2010.

1. 14 th February 2013 View count reached 8,001 views, making it my first image to have had more than 8,000 views. In fact none of my other photographs have had more than 7,000 views. It has been featured in eighteen groups, been made a favourite by more than 112 people and sold as a card and as a print – all of which makes it my most popular image. It was my first photograph uploaded to RedBubble on 9th March 2010.
    
    

It has had three sales here and has always been a good seller when I have had physical exhibitions. The best was as a 30″x30″ block mounted print. It is was used as the programme illustration for a play performed by Mephisto Theatre Company

 
At a craft fair on 4th December 2010 it was again my best selling image – selling four copies two on canvas and two block-mounted on MDF and of course it was in my best selling calendar!

I have three collections here of stereographic panoramas like this one, they are panoramas of:

Donegal	Derry
The Aran Islands