Gratuitous panorama, Ljubljana
Regular readers already know that I have this thing about standing in open areas and spinning in a slow circle with a camera in my hands. Previous panoramas have included Venice’s Piazzetta San Marco and the Piazza della Reppublica in Trieste, and then there was the collage-like Soča River paste-up more recently. So it was only a matter of time before I got around to doing it in Ljubljana’s small but lovely tourist magnet, Prešernov trg. I wrote about the poet namesake of this square, too, and his place on Slovenian money. You can just make out his statue (with the muse of poetry dangling some mistletoe or catnip over his head) in the center of the right-hand half of the picture. Magda and Adam are hidden in the shadows lower left.
One problem with such projects is that these panoramic views tend to shrink and flatten what are more interesting places than the camera can capture, at least in my hands. Also, to fit these pictures in the text field I have to further shrink them down to a fraction of their former selves. If you’d like to see more detail, you can also go see this picture 2.5 times larger.
