As close as I’ve ever been (or want to be) to an alligator in the wild. About 15 feet away from this 8-10 foot 'gator:
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Beautiful fluffy interactive mousetrap 
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When I worked for the City we used to get called about 1 a month for a gator in someone’s yard. Most of the time they were just little 4 footers but every now and then you would run up on a bull (more likely beaten out of the body of water he used to control) we would call the Game Warden then.
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I love shooting panoramas. It’s my favourite form of photography, second only to photos of my family on adventures.
It’s the one thing I miss about Windows, or more specifically, Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Camera Raw. Nothing native to Linux can (yet) come close to their raw panorama stitching capabilities.
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Give Hugin a try. . . . I also have an outdated version of PTgui which works in ‘wine’, and Autopanopro which is no longer being developed that still works. Hugin works well with Linux. I would have to disagree with your statements specifically about Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Camera raw.
Rich 
Today when i trashed my trash i found a small treasure. Someone trowed away this piece
When i did some googling i found:
Thanks whoever trashed it!
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I have never used the creation of panoramas in these tools 
But I used PTGui and AutopanoPro regularly. But that was in the days of Windows…
Thank you for the suggestion of considering Hugin. I am familiar with it, and it is essentially the Linux option I’m referencing.
My statement was with regards to Photoshop’s ability to stitch together raw photos, so retaining all of that wonderful raw data. Hugin, unless more recent updates have improved this, must convert raw to TIFF (using external application) before it can stitch it, limiting editing capabilities, and requiring a fiddlier two-application destructive work flow (ie, RawTherapee or DarkTable > TIFF > Hugin), instead of single application non-destructive raw processing.
Raw image processing offers little but to correct color deficiencies wrought on by the Bayer Pixel color Cmos chip matrix. (red, blue, green) pixel photo-sites used to interpolate the color. Sigma has dropped the ball on a full-frame 35mm Foveon chip. Superior except in Low light.
No interpolated color. Higher resolution per pixel. They may have given up as far as I know. I own an old SD- 1 , it is an excellent camera in respects to color and resolution. I doubt adobe handles this file format used by Sigma. For what it’s worth. . . .just my opinion.
Foveon is similiar to ‘Windows/Linux’ debate we’ve been toying with for years. . . What’s better and why dilemma. . .
Rich;)
Heheh, just like suits for astronauts offer little but to correct oxygen deficiencies wrought by the vacuum of space. Which is to say, it’s a pretty big deal 
Anyway, the topic has deviated. Time to bring it back to the point: Photos!
Chasing alpacas.
A morning photography walk with one of my daughters.
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@Bink absolutely gorgeous photos BOTH of yo posts
thankx 4 sharing
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We live on a farm, so he’s got plenty to catch 
He managed to get his first one on Monday evening, but thankfully decided we didn’t need it as a gift
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Set up trail cams to see what was coming on the property at night. Have a family of fox living in the woods behind us; finally got his picture in the daytime:
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