Filmed In Barsovision

Barley, a dog, is right-of-frame in a panoramic photo of a colorful painted traffic roundabout themed around rainbow salmon.

I don’t think someone can fully appreciate how much of photography is a kind of orchestrated deception until they assemble a panoramic photo by hand. Focal length, in particular, is a deliriously weird concept to deal with. This is just the inversion of the problem of mapping the Earth on a flat map: The world isn’t 2D, so compromises needs to be made to collapse the 3D world onto a plane. For example, at a glance, this photo seems reasonable, but my choice to have Barley be the focal center (despite not being centered in the frame) means that things get increasingly distorted as the eye travels to her left. Note, for example, that this roundabout does not look like the road has the same width all the way around (I assure you, the actual location is sensibly circular).