Pic of the Day #468
We spent, as I may have previously mentioned, several hours at the Parthenon site, just taking in the beauty of the structure. Grace absolutely loves the Parthenon, and is fascinated by it. I’m wasn’t quite as transfixed by it as she was, but I did take a number of photos…and even attempted a panoramic image. Put simply, I just didn’t have the ability, with my 17-85 mm lens, to take a wide-enough angle photo to capture the structure in all its majesty.
But I did have Hugin.
There are, if memory serves, a dozen images comprising this picture. The pronounced angle is not quite true-to-life, but is not destructive to the image; it’s the result of the particular stitching scheme I selected in Hugin, which maintained the straightest lines possible on the Parthenon itself (as opposed to other schemes which would have introduced unacceptable and ugly curvature to the old temple). And, to be fair, I wasn’t shooting the pictures from straight-on in front of the Parthenon itself.
As usual, the joins are seamless, and I think this image communicates quite nicely just how majestic, and how very larger-than-life, the Parthenon really is. It is such an impressive structure to behold, and humbling too.
