The shuttle just flew over my house at 35,000 feet. Double sonic booms.
Ran into the living room and watched it land. Pictures perfect landing.

Paul Lamar
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Stitched images of the landing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafleurfamily/3073695166/sizes/l/


Matt-

Wow!  A whole HERD of space shuttles! Didn't know we built that
many...lookit them tax dollars...

Must have a lot of confidence in their landing abilities to follow that
closely...oh, that's right, no go rounds... they HAVE to land...

Harley


I don't know how they did that picture. Really great lens.

Paul Lamar

What I should have said:

To take an image like this, you simply pan the camera taking frames
that include some minimum amount of overlap.  Newer Canon cameras have
a stitching tool on board that as you pan and take frames, and
displays one side of the previous image in the viewfinder to help you
make sure that get complete coverage of the area.  Then when you run
the stitching software after downloading them to your computer, you
select the images that you want to stitch, placing them next to each
other on the screen in the correct orientation.  The software then
looks for common identifying features in adjacent images and then
draws them together.  It's fairly easy to get descent results.  I
agree that the shuttle shots are quite good though.  Here are a few
I've done recently with my point-n-shoot Canon (A640 - using the
supplied Canon stitching software):

http://picasaweb.google.com/ezeflierid/AlbuquerqueStitchedImages#

http://picasaweb.google.com/ezeflierid/ColumbiaVillageFire#5238902512029868482



Regards,

Matt-