I've struggled with how to display panoramas on the web, previously using just the browser to display them. The standard flash plugin I'm using doesn't render them well: it works best with images of consistent size. "Lightbox" gets around that issue. The original Lighbox is Prototype/ Scriptaculous based. I like those, but MS are moving towards JQuery, and as this is running on ASP.NET, I used the JQuery Lighbox extension.

I lashed up a little extension to BlogEngine.NET which squirts out the magic incantations required for JQuery and the Lightbox extension to it, and then I hacked someone's thumbnailing extension for BlogEngine.NET ... so now I can drop images in here and they're automagically thumbnailed and displayed in a lightbox.

Like this:


These are all huge panoramas, so you'll need a fairly large screen to see them. I do have a bunch of nodal-point gear, but these were all taken hand-held and then stitched using PTGui and/or Photoshop. And as they're displayed without browser plugins, they're pretty much the only photographs on this site which you can see in the correct colours.

I found the BlogEngine.NET extension handler rather flakey. The principle's great, but it needs a little polishing. Unless you happen to have a wet afternoon to spare.