Yeah, it's where we send any foreign visitors we know It's where my family had some memorable camping trips too, but we're now disbanded (grown-up) and scattered over the lower NI. Plus trips to the SI are at a couple per year now, and usually to the in-laws, so coast trips are far and few between .

My camera (an older Canon Digital Ixus 300) has the option to take side by side (overlapping) pictures, which are then 'stitched' together with some software that came with it.

As you noticed with the Uluru shot, sometimes the time between light levels between two shots is significant enough for one of the shots to be darker than the previous one - the camera doesn't remember the light levels of the first shot. There is a manual way around it, but at the time I didn't understand why it was happening. My approaching storm shot below is another example where this happened.

Here are two more I have:

London skyline taken from Primrose Hill
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Beachcomber Island in Fiji, as a storm rolled in
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Sorry, I got the wrong island - it was Rab, not Krk. I remember the name Krk because it looks unpronounceable We took the camper over on a ferry, and stayed in one of the camping grounds for two nights.

@GullRaDriel: Nice panoramic. Is it from your place? And, I like the photos in your first shot. I had a go a few years back with my SLR getting that quality photos, but these days most of my photos are limited to pointing and clicking with a 2.1 mega pixel digital . One day I'll save up enough for a digital SLR.

@HardTranceFan: It is from a friend of my mom place. Near "La Londe Les Maures", south France.

My cam is a Canon Ixus 40, not too far from what you have. ( Ah, yeah, 4 mega pixel )

Thanks for the comment ! ( I already have praised you before ;-) )

EDIT: Code Harris, I browse all your deviant art picture, and my choice is Reflection at the Beach ! Very nice reflection

Canon Ixus 40:
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I take a look at Wikipedia, and they have a K1000 description. I just post it for informational purpose ;-)

Not sure what HDR is, but I just submitted a new image:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52919791/

HDR = high dynamic range

When you take a picture there is only so much contrast between what ends up being 0xFF FF FF and 00 00 00. Take a night picture. You'll notice that all lights go white and everything else goes pitch black. HDR basically amounts to a greater range or contrast. Currently they use a technique by taking several exposures and blending them. Ideally we'll have chips that can sense the light with a greater range instead.

edit: and we'll need the monitors to go along with it. Also would be nice to get greater contrast without losing precision, so we should move to more bits.

I don't know much about photography hardware, but my astronomer friend said that some company developed per-pixel shutters, so each pixel gets its own exposure appropriate for the light level. He was talking about its use in space photography, so the really super-bright stuff doesn't blot out the detail, but I wonder if this tech would essentially amount to HDR when applied to less celestial projects?

Canon make good cams.

Nope. I think HDR is cool and nice, but too much HDR make the thing look like a cartoon / cinema / not real thing.

I like HDR but it still takes lot effort to produce anything looking natural.

My amateur pictures are here

My HDR attempts:

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Takes lot of time and the result does not look real anyway. (Or more likely I need more practice).

Thanks Kibiz0r, but there is still a lot of space for improvement.

Regarding the panoramic discussion, there is a more simple way to make panoramic image: 1. Make a shot with a wide angle lens. 2. Cut out top and bottom. Example:
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