QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality is a way of stitching photographs together in a panorama, either cylindrical or spherical, giving a 180 or 360 degree pan.

I tired some experiments in Monte Polizzo in Sicily, but was not impressed with the results - camera resolution then was low and panning left and right, even with the grand vistas afforded by this hilltop site, was somewhat dull.

I am also unimpressed and weary of the hype associated with so-called virtual reality - I don't even believe in the concept - [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

But when screens started growing, offering rather glorious visual possibilities, I came across full-screen 360 degree panoramas (let's not call them VR).

I find them irresistible

Here are some efforts of mine - part of my chorography of the English-Scottish borders.

The larger issue is of figure/ground relationships - a key component of my archaeology - see figure and ground for a growing set of notes and ideas.

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Routin-Lin - off the Milfield Plain in norther Northumberland - a magical place of deep prehistory - this is beneath the iron-age hill fort [link]

Warkworth - the Hermitage - [link]

Routin Lin again, wait for the surprise around the corner - [link]

Sir Ralph and Lady Grey in St John's Chillingham, Northumberland - a forgotten piece of the 15th century [link]