Wood SceneWoodland Panorama It's difficult to capture the sense of immersion in the open southern woodland.  It's almost a religious experience for me. I heard about a panorama and focus-stacking tool called Hugin.  Since it runs on my favorite operating system (Linux), I gave it a try.

Lake EdgeThe Edge of the Lake The results are stunning.  The main trick, other than using a stable pivoting point, is not to use too many images. They shouldn't overlap by more than a third because if they do and they're too complicated, then the program will not converge.  I ended up using every other image I took to make these.