St Salvator’s Chapel gigapixel panorama

Had the opportunity to shoot a equirectangular panorama (photosphere) in St Salvator’s chapel earlier this week.

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North Uist Panoramas – Leacach An Tigh Chloiche

This was the final site I shot before leaving the island & was by far the most difficult to get to. It’s over an hour’s walk from the nearest road (well, a farmer’s track that turns off the road) & involves walking straight through a bog as there simply isn’t any way to get around. Wellies are a definite necessity & tbh waders wouldn’t go amiss. My boss on the island went out with me & had to physically drag me out when I placed one foot wrong & that leg disappeared up to the thigh O_o

The view from the top of the hill was worth it though, even if I had to squelch all the way up the hill & then all the way back to the car after the bog incident…

27 Leacach An Tigh Chloiche (chambered cairn & standing stone at Unival)

28 Leacach An Tigh Chloiche (chambered cairn & standing stone at Unival)

This is sort of like the classic cliché standing stone shot that most people that visit North Uist seem to take, except instead of taking it at Pobull Fhinn I took it up here so at least it’s slightly less repetitive.

29 Leacach An Tigh Chloiche (chambered cairn & standing stone at Unival)

30 Leacach An Tigh Chloiche (chambered cairn & standing stone at Unival)

If you click this Roundme image it will load the space & let you click between the 4x different panoramas & drag them with your mouse/finger to look around. Once it’s loaded you can double click to go fullscreen (highly recommended).

North Uist Panoramas – Caravat Barp

This wasn’t a particularly impressive site as Caravat barp is quite a low one that was also rather overgrown, but I tried a few different positions nonetheless. Click on the Roundme images to load the panoramas so that you can drag them around, double click once they’ve loaded to go fullscreen.

This one is from the top, so look down to see the stones of the barp around you.

21 Caravat Barp (chambered cairn at Carinish)

This was some sort of wall/remnant of a structure to one side of the barp.

22 Caravat Barp (chambered cairn at Carinish)

And here I was just drawn to the nice moss over the stones.

24 Caravat Barp (chambered cairn at Carinish)

If you click this Roundme image it will load the space & let you click between the 3x different panoramas & drag them with your mouse/finger to look around. Once it’s loaded you can double click to go fullscreen (highly recommended).

North Uist Panoramas – Barpa Nam Feannag

As seen in this post where I ran over the PTGui process, these are from Barpa Nam Feannag. This site is a little less well known to tourists, as it’s about an hour’s walk from the nearest road & it isn’t signposted with a footpath or anything. Plenty of sheep along the way to keep you company though.

I took this first one from a nice large flat rock when I first laid eyes on the cairn, partly to show its situation in the wider landscape & partly to give my legs a rest. You can see the cairn to the left of the big body of water.

15 Barpa Nam Feannag (chambered cairn at Ahmor) (from far away)

This one is pretty much the whole project’s money shot, really pleased with how well it came out. It prints quite nicely as well.

16 Barpa Nam Feannag (chambered cairn at Ahmor) (at barp)

One from the base of the stones.

17 Barpa Nam Feannag (chambered cairn at Ahmor) (at base of stones)

And one from the side to show the length of the cairn (it’s classified as a ‘long’ cairn for reasons that should now be fairly evident).

18 Barpa Nam Feannag (chambered cairn at Ahmor) (from side)

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North Uist Panoramas – Dun Sticir

As seen in this post, here are a bunch from Dun an Sticir. This one is literally right next to a road, so it’s a common place for tourists to visit. (The causeways are fun as well!)

This is the view from the first island, called Eilean na Mi-Chomhairle (Island of Bad Counsel).

10 Dun an Sticir (dun or broch) (first island)

On the second island, standing outside of the dun itself.

11 Dun an Sticir (dun or broch) (outside dun)

One from inside the dun (add midges for an authentic experience).

12 Dun an Sticir (dun or broch) (inside dun)

It may seem odd to have taken one from on top of the wall, but it lets you look down & appreciate the thickness of the wall in places.

13 Dun an Sticir (dun or broch) (on top of dun)

And the one featured in the previous post, from halfway along the causeway between the two islands.

14 Dun an Sticir (dun or broch) (second causeway)

If you click this Roundme image it will load the space & let you click between the 5x different panoramas & drag them with your mouse/finger to look around. Once it’s loaded you can double click to go fullscreen (highly recommended).