Panoramas from Portugal

Panorama is an unbroken view of an entire surrounding area. The word itself comes from two Classical Greek words bolted together, as they often are,  πᾶν meaning ‘all’ and ὅραμα meaning ‘sight’.

My fancypants camera can take panoramas by way of taking a large number of pictures as I slowly and steadily swing the camera 90 degrees on the spot, and then the demon inside magically stitches the captured images together with his forsaken arts. Or at least that’s my understanding of the process. The technique itself isn’t actually all that wondrous as it can by be achieved by a novice with only 9001 hours of experience in MSPaint too with conventionally taken pictures.

I’ve run out of interesting tid bits about the fascinating definition of a word that you already know, and the incredible tendency of us Brits to cannibalise Classical Greek words. And since I don’t want to bore you with sinister workings of the Sony ‘Abaddon55’ DSLR camera, I’ll just post some more pictures.

Not a bad view from a hill above the house. (You can see the house in the bottom left, it’s the yellow one)

Nice view from a small beach in Figueira

The much bigger beach in Figueira, every where you look there is sand

The stunning view of the rice fields from the top of the Castle in Montemor-o-Velho. The fields will soon  all be flooded like the one on the right, don’t worry they do it on purpose.

03/05/2011 | Categories: Photos, Portugal | Tags: landscape, Montemor-o-Velho, Panorama, photography, photos, Portugal, sunset | 2 Comments