These days most people have a camera phone. Normally I never bother with mines as I usually have one of my Canon SLR’s camera with me however recently I was on a business trip to Bristol and I had a few hours to kill before my flight home so decided to visit Cheddar Gorge. It was a lovely afternoon so I thought I would take the chance to capture a few images on my phone as it was my only option. This gave me a chance to play with the panoramic feature whereby you hold the phone level while panning to either the right or left and a sequence of images are captured and stitch together into one shot. Due to the height of the gorge cliffs a single panoramic shot could not capture the sheer size so I took 3 shots one to capture the lower cliffs and road, a second to capture the mid section and finally a third shot to capture the cliff tops and some of the sky. I then took these three images and using Microsoft ICE stitched the three images into together, creating this image. I know it is nowhere near the quality of an image I could have gotten if I had my “big” camera with me however it has done way better than I would have ever imagined. So perhaps in the future I may be taking more pictures on my camera phone 🙂

What I forgot to mention was that only minutes before I took this picture I lost my footing and barrelled down the hill into a large patch of hawthorn, brambles and stinging nettles, cutting my hands, arms and back to ribbons. The lengths some people go to in order to get a picture even with a camera phone 🙂