Got my Tahoe Rim Trail patch in the mail today from the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, confirming my application that I’d done the whole trail.

I’m number #565 to register my completion of the trail.  I’m sure I’ll be posted on the official list soon.

I think I’ll sew it onto my backpack ;-).

I’ve come across a number of interesting variations on panoramas on Flickr lately, some of my favorites illustrated below.

Anyone intrigued by The Little Prince would naturally gravitate towards polar panoramas - in which a 360 degree panorama (or at least a nominally joinable one) is transformed into polar coordinates, resulting in your own tiny world to explore.  Makes the world seem much more manageable, don’t you think?

I often like leaving the edges of a panorama raw - the shapes can be quite interesting.  In this vein check out Mareen Fischinger’s panographic compositions - well over a hundred photos collaged to transform their rather mundane, colorless subjects into brilliantly rhythmic pieces.

And then there’s the physically created panoramas, like this polaroid emulsion lift panorama from Cℓea tecℓea.

Or this moody, slightly spooky panorama stitched (in a darkroom I think) from sequential but otherwise unrelated photos on a film roll. View it large.