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River Tyne at South Shields

Posted by
Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 3 June 2012 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

OK there are lots of pictures from my home town South Shields in this site, but I think this may be the first to be taken from the opposite bank of the River Tyne.

This panorama was from seven frames and I stitched it in Photoshop, they were all taken from the same spot on Tynemouth Haven almost below the statue to Admiral Lord Collingwood. The great shame is that the detail which I see in the full resolution originals cannot be shown with any great justice on this internet, I am providing a link to a much larger image but once that was compressed to about 830 kb a lot of detail just disappeared. This original panorama is almost 28000 pixels wide, and its print size is 13 inches high by 84 inches long, the file size is 48 Mb!

From the left we start with the gap between the two lighthouses, the one you see is on the south pier, moving left at the rear as I zoom in I can see Marsden Rock and Souter Lighthouse, then Marsden Craggs with both Sandhaven and Littlehaven beaches below. A little further to the left I see the water tower on Cleadon hills, and just to the right of centre on the skyline the clock tower of South Shields Town Hall, the Groyne pier sits on the river's edge just a little further to the right. The huge mass of rocks in the foreground and to the right are the infamous "Black Middens" which in the late 1800s and later were responsible for the wrecking of many ships, these rocks are not visible at high tide, and in days of yore wooden hulled ships had their bottoms just torn out if grounded on the Middens. So many lives were lost just a few yards from the shore.

As we move further to the right we see an old jetty in Tynemouth which just about marks the mouth of the River Tyne where it flows towards the North Sea.

If you check closer in the foreground on the extreme left you will find some folks "crabbing" on the rocks, in fact one man got himself into two frames!

Here is the link to a much larger version, bear in mind this is over 800 kb in size.

PENTAX K100D 1/350 second F/8.0 ISO 200 34 mm (35mm equiv.)

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Jeff from Honolulu, United States

Looking at the large view at the link was well worth the visit. (Actually, it loaded quickly.) The detail was well worth the visit. Nicely done.

3 Jun 2012 5:40am

Universe from Tehran, Iran

Lovely shot. Well done !!!
Good luck.

3 Jun 2012 5:40am

MissT from Chicagoland, United States

Excellent work - and thanks for the link, it's definitely even more impressive there!

3 Jun 2012 6:02am

PATRICK from miramas, France

excellent 5****

3 Jun 2012 6:09am

Christine from Ellemford, United Kingdom

Excellent job, it was great to include the link

3 Jun 2012 6:29am

ursulakatariina from Leixlip, Ireland

Wow, great work! The link is really worth of visit!

3 Jun 2012 6:30am

gerard1948 from Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Lovely shot, .

3 Jun 2012 6:45am

Jules from Drayton, United Kingdom

Tis one of the drawbacks of the Am3 format but a cracking job on the stitching

3 Jun 2012 6:46am

Aubélia from Kortrijk, Belgium

Beautifully done !
Have a nice day.

3 Jun 2012 7:27am

Akbar&Armaghan from gorgan, Iran

very nice

3 Jun 2012 8:42am

Hiro from Kyoto, Japan

We need much resolution for panorama. Thanks for the link. I enjoyed it.

3 Jun 2012 8:43am

grouser from Ludlow, United Kingdom

Excellently documented Curly, though I nearly stuck my head through the screen trying to find the crabbers:)

3 Jun 2012 9:01am

Florence from Paris, France

Much better via your link ! We must ask jason to do something about it !

3 Jun 2012 9:09am

Doug from Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Wow a superb panorama, thanks for the link we can appreciate it far more, terrific work Curly

3 Jun 2012 9:24am

omid from mashhad, Iran

wooooow!
very nice!

3 Jun 2012 9:34am

J.R. from Urasoe City, Japan

Nice, I'll check out the other one as well

3 Jun 2012 10:05am

Nigel from Avening, United Kingdom

Very impressive - well done

3 Jun 2012 10:10am

Mohammad from Shahr-ebabak, Iran

very beautiful

3 Jun 2012 10:15am

daniela scharnowski from Berlin, Germany

this is just about the right size for my current bandwidth lol
what happened that you´ve become so adventurous? the other side of the river!

3 Jun 2012 10:21am

@daniela scharnowski: Oh it was probably a few days off in good warm weather :-)

Adela Fonts from Barcelona, Spain

A very interesting reading. Now we know the difficulties of looking at this picture with all its power. I have watched and admired your link ... One big difference ... Thank you very much ... You're a good photographer and a good communicator and historian ... Thank you very much ... a history teacher thanks you ...Adela (the teacher!) A hug!

3 Jun 2012 10:31am

missparis from Paris, France

Très sympa ce format

3 Jun 2012 11:30am

Judy aka L@dybug from Brooksville, FL, United States

What a fantastic panorama ... and the detail in the linked version is great; thank you for including it.

3 Jun 2012 12:18pm

Philippe from Paris, France

Joli panorama

3 Jun 2012 1:07pm

CElliottUK from Reading, United Kingdom

I really "Get it" when looking at the bigger shot-really gorgeous

3 Jun 2012 3:29pm

Richard from Ellemford, United Kingdom

Very cleverly done, Curly, lovely sense of the curve of the earth!

3 Jun 2012 3:37pm

Ted from South Wales, United Kingdom

you are a one-man Tourist Board!

3 Jun 2012 5:00pm

Khalil from Beyrouth, Lebanon

Magnifique panorama offrant une large évasion pour le regard.

3 Jun 2012 7:08pm

Baldwin VW from Bejuma, Venezuela

Impressive panorama. Excellent stitch work !!! Beautiful photo ....

3 Jun 2012 9:01pm

The Mouse from Glasgow, United Kingdom

A cracker, love it.

3 Jun 2012 9:02pm

Elaine Hancock from Rockville, United States

Great panoramic view. The link was fantastic. Your explanation really brings it all together!

3 Jun 2012 9:38pm

Michael Fresh from Chester, United Kingdom

The larger picture is clearer, and you did a great job stitching. But no way am I going back up Snowdon to do that !

3 Jun 2012 11:09pm

Arash from Brisbane, Australia

Beautiful.... great color and detail.... I enjoyed!

4 Jun 2012 12:55am

Yonatan from New York, United States

Very nice panoramic! I definitely empathize with you about displaying panoramic photos online. Aminus does not handle them well at all. I've been looking into creating them myself and putting them on private website, however, I haven't really found software that easily integrates panos into a website and I do not have enough web development knowledge to make it work.

4 Jun 2012 1:17am

Martin A. Mora from North Platte, United States

Glad u added the big one. This does it no justice. What I thought were small rocks are boulders. Wow. Impressive.

4 Jun 2012 4:24am

Loukas from Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece

Excellent Panorama Curly

4 Jun 2012 4:52am

Ronnie 2¢ from Atlantic Shores, United Kingdom

What a fascinating experiment of an image this makes ! You probably needed a gray 'spacer' top and bottom to set it free from the AM3 site stuff.

4 Jun 2012 8:47am

Don Levesque from Saint John, Canada

Superb job on this panoramic view! Checked out the link, impressive.
Well done Curly!

4 Jun 2012 12:44pm

PENTAX K100D
1/350 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
34 mm (35mm equiv.)

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