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It's rather difficult to make such a choice as 'The Best Pano Of The Year' -or at least so it is to me-, and I am quite lazy too. That's why I put a lot of time in chosing my submission. There were several 'eery' ones in my mind -the kind of work I started after my accidental 'Borders' contribution-, and many other panos that I appreciated for very different reasons, but the hard thing -the decision-... I always postponed. So I finally went into a kind of simple choice: I'd show the first one -chronologycally- of all those panos I liked best. This panorama was shot during our last Christmas holiday's week in Mallorca, on January the 3rd., winter had just set up. Temperature was about 4 degrees C, which is a real chill out there, and a steady wind was blowing hard on the island. We decided to spend the day visiting Formentor, on the northwest, and once we were there we couldn't resist and went up to Albercutx, and old vantage point on top of a mountain - the tower you may see in this pano. The shooting was a bit complicated due to the wind, to my tripod not being very steady -I had to hold it all the time as it risked to be blown away at every moment-, to my standing on a slanted rock and... to my heights making me dizzy!. The clouds moved very fast too, which complicated the stitching part once back at home -safe and sound. Anyway I feel that the view deserved the try...
More panoramas from Mallorca in winter http://www.panoleku.com/mallorca/index.html 
Shortcut to this page: http://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp_rss/go/n2764
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