Album Panoramic and Wide from Herb Riddle

The Road to the Isles, panorama

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:18:43 +0000

A six photo 160° stitch . The sea is to our right.

See next photo for close-ups.

Well worth full screen and more.

Loch an Nostarie

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:07:47 +0000

A panoramic view of this lonely loch. The weather looked like rain but it remained dry.

Loch an Nostarie is an irregular shaped shallow freshwater loch that lies about a mile north of the west-end of Loch Morar and about a mile south-east of Mallaig in the Lochaber district of Scotland. Its shore length is 6km.

A panoramic stitch of four photographs. Best enjoyed full screen.

Enjoy the day

Vienna ~ Parliament Building.

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:25:23 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

An almost fish-eye panoramic view of this very impressive building here in the heart of Vienna. The start of wonderful walking tour for us.

“The Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna, opened in 1883, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Austrian Parliament. The building is located on the Ringstraße in the first district, Innere Stadt, near Hofburg Palace and the Palace of Justice.” Wikipedia

See PiP for alternative view

Best full screen.

Monsal Head panorama

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:07:00 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

We are looking down into the Monsal Dale valley in the Derbyshire Peak District onto the impressive Headstone Viaduct. In the valley bottom runs the very nice River Wye and to the right is the village of Cressbrook with Water-Cum-Jolly Dale just a little further.
Its-time for us to stride down the narrow path and steps to the wooden footbridge across the river near the buildings on our right before taking the opposite bank of the river, back under the viaduct, along the grassy bank past an impressive weir and second footbridge before traversing uphill back to here and a little further to our car. Phew!
The Grade II listed viaduct built in 1863 is 91m long, 21m high with five 15m span arches and was built by the Midland Railway. It is now home to the Monsal Trail for walking and bicycles. There is also quite an impressive tunnel just out of sight: the Headstone tunnel is 487m long through which the trail runs. ~ Another phone panorama!

Best full screen.

Enjoy the day.

A Derbyshire barn

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:08:00 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A few days in the Peak District of Derbyshire allows me to spy some new landscapes. This taken just at the edge of the village of Castleton.

Enjoy full screen.

~ Just realised that this would have made a nice entry into the HWW group (˚◡˚)

Pen-y-ghent, Queen of the Dales

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:05:50 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

Taken from above the Yorkshire Dales village of Langcliffe in 2011 but just as attractive today. Looking at its best in the golden hour.
Pen-y-ghent It is the lowest of Yorkshire's Three Peaks at 2,277 feet; the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside. It lies 1.9 miles east of Horton in Ribblesdale.

Enjoy the day.

Derwent Water, Queen of the Lakes

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:04:07 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

Another vintage shot, this time from 2011. Demonstrating again that time is no impediment to landscapes and light.

Looking South from the Lakeland fell of Latrigg, over the Cumbrian town of Keswick onto Derwent Water. The first Island just right of centre is Derwent Island. To its left seemingly touching the shore is Lord’s Island with Rampsholm Island on its top left corner and almost centre stage of the lake is St Herbert’s Island (naturally :) Latrigg is 368m asl.

Essential full screen

A bay in the Bay of Fundy

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 08:44:15 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A very wide view of Mispec Bay within the much larger Bay of Fundy. A world famous bay that lies between Canada’s Nova Scotia and New Brunswick provinces, and touches the U.S. state of Maine. It’s known for its extremely high tidal range of about 16 metres (52ft) and thereby is the highest in the world. (The second highest in the world is in the Bristol Channel area where I was only a few months ago.)

This taken with my phone in panoramic mode. The first time I had used that handy mode after learning how on the bus to here! (My DSLR had decided to die on me minutes before taking this.)

Enjoy full screen

Barmouth Viaduct panorama

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:28:48 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

An unusual photo of this famous viaduct in the Mawddach estuary. Of course this short commuter train is perhaps the centre of interest too. However perhaps the thing that makes this photo what it is, is the golden lighting on the sand.

Essential full screen

Enjoy the weekend.

The Mawddach estuary

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:04:12 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A panoramic three photo stitch of this wide view over the estuary. The River Mawddach continues inland under the viaduct on our left and runs into the sea also to our left. We see here most of the span of the Barmouth railway viaduct at 820m long. In the background is the southern Snowdonia Range with Cadair Idris. To my right this causeway runs to the tiny hamlet of Fairbourne and the small narrow railway track is also just behind me.

Enjoy full screen.

Castleshaw reservoir

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:58:06 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A look at one of our local reservoirs. This is Castleshaw, fabled as once being an area where a Roman fort was built. A five photo stitch.

Enjoy full screen

Loch Broom

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:00:46 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

As we continue to drive south we come to the small town of Ullapool and its sea loch. Loch Broom is seven miles long (five looking down from here) and is fed by the River Broom. We are here on the main Ullapool frontage looking south with its fishing harbour and the Stornoway ferry terminal to our right. As can be seen, a full range of interesting mountain ranges lie to the south and overlook the loch..

The PiP (last photo) shows more of the Ullapool street itself.

Enjoy full size and remember our friends in the Ukraine.

Loch Beannach, Assynt

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 08:09:16 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

After a visit to Ardvreck Castle we decide to take a walk in an area called Little Assnt, located just a few km north of the castle. A wonderful stroll past beautiful lochans full of small islands that looked inviting even in our worsening weather. This is relatively small at only 2km at its maximum length and 4 metres deep. As I was taking this the rains had begun to fall so protecting my lens was also a priority. I think you may agree though, it was well worth getting the camera out of the bag.

Enjoy full size.

Rainbow at Brushes

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 07:10:46 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A recent 'breath of fresh air' walk took us to a local set of reservoirs in the search for new autumn tree colours. However we were not in luck for such light on the trees.
At almost the highest point a look to our right showed us the makings of a beautiful rainbow with the blackest sky imaginable. Whilst hiding from the coming onslaught of rain behind a wall, I ran off a few quick snaps being careful not to get my lens wet. Here is the result of two of the photos melded for this panoramic capture. Notice here what I had at first thought of, as a very dirty photo of noise/dirt spots on the lens or sensor but ‘no’ the lens was clean and dry, as was my sensor. So what are those white spots and streaks over the colours of the bow itself? In fact, it seems that the bright sun to my back as I took these into the black skies, lit up the fast rain droplets and that is that what we are seeing. Strangely, moments after taking these, the rainbow, rain and dark skies reverted to beautiful blue skies again (until we reached the golden trees then it went dull - of course.)
Enjoy full size.
Have a great weekend. Herb

A view to the Yorkshire Dales

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:35:59 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

This 180°, eight photo stitch panorama looking NE taken from just north of Carnfoth, shows the hills and fells of our Yorkshire Dales. We are seeing much here including the Howgills, Barbon Fell and Ingleborough centre stage. A little to the left is the borders of our Lake District and the pleasant tourist village of Kirby Lonsdale hiding beyond the foreground hills.

Enjoy full size.

The pride of Loch Lomond

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 06:02:58 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A look at this famous Loch towards the south from above Inversnaid.
It took a while and some effort finding this viewpoint but when we did, we were very pleased indeed as I hope you are. (A stitch of four photos)

Enjoy full size.

Ps – another short break now.

Wastwater Panorama

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:01:07 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

Enjoy this last look at the lake in panoramic fashion. This shows almost the complete lake here with the centre dominated by ‘The Screes’ of ‘Illgill Head’ and ‘Whin Rigg’.

A stitch of eight separate photos which resulted in a mighty wide pixel photograph!
Enjoy full screen.

Classic Whitby

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:00:38 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

A high view down to the main promenade and quayside of this old town. We are looking on the main town here across the River Esk. You can see that it is fairly busy as people are trying to make the most of a C19 inter-lockdown gap. The foreground huts and shelters house the main fish market and if you look carefully you can clearly see the sign. In year past, there would not have been a gap to see the old quay, for the amount of fishing boats lined up to unload their daily catch –how things have changed. Fortunately, Whitby still does have part of its old fishing fleet and the market still thrives in normal conditions. The quayside here is lined with traditional shops and old Inns as well as a few fish ‘n’ chip shops. The statue of its adopted hero Captain James Cook and also the iconic Whalebone arch stand just right (out of picture) of the green grass area on the centre right. See Pips.
Enjoy full size.

Whitby and its piers

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:31:15 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

Lots of fences here to satisfy the most ardent Happy Fence Friday fan :)
Whitby harbour is protected by a pair of piers set in a claw-like shape by which the River Esk escapes into the North Sea.
The two piers in Whitby have been in existence since before the 1500's. By 1540, the two oak piers (east and west) were replaced partially, with stonework (in the reign of King Charles 1), with further work around the 1600’s. Both piers were rebuilt in 1735, each measuring approximately 183m, but by 1814 the west pier was further extended to reach a length of 309m. In 1905, both the piers had new pier ends built on, each of a length of 152m. In Feb 2020 a new footbridge was constructed on the east pier to link the main pier to its the wooden extension. (Seen on here in white.)

Full screen essential.

Happy New Ipernity!

nobody@ipernity.com (Herb Riddle) — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:38:28 +0000

Herb Riddle has posted:

Piethorn Reservoir: A first look at this reservoir for us on this new walk only a few miles from home. This is one of six reservoirs all near to each other above the village of Newhey, Rochdale. This 180° view is made from a stitch of 4x 6000x4000 landscape photos before reduction for Ipernity upload.

I was just about to upload this before Ipernity collapsed last year.

**A Big thank you to all involved in fixing the technical problems here. - What would we do without you!**

Wishing you all a very happy photographic future back here in Ipernity.

Keep safe.