8:00 a.m. Blackburn Lake, Salt Spring Island
Blackburn Lake was once known for its proximity to a dump, an organic golf course and clothing optional swimmers.
The dump is now a transfer station, the golf course is history with the land is quickly reverting to its wild state, and the Salt Spring Conservancy now owns about 30 acres bordering the lake. The stunning morning views are completely free.
It looks quite peaceful.
Getting rid of a golf course is always a good thing. The old expression’s true: golf is a good walk wasted.
Thanks. Not a soul in site. A few ducks and one eagle.
This image is a combination of 3 full resolution images from a Canon 300mm f/2.8 lens. The resulting handheld pano is a 40 megapixel image. And, because the Canon 1D-X has nice large pixels (only 18 megapixels) the image is very nice to work with. You are seeing 1/40th of the image if you are viewing this page at full size in a web browser.
Lovely panorama! What did you use to stitch the three images together?
Thanks Stuart. Because I shoot them bobbing around on the dock, I just shot handheld. On a lark, I used Photoshop’s
File…Automate…Photomerge.
Hm. That’s a button Aperture doesn’t have. Pity.