One of those photos from one of those moments

Have you ever experienced a time when you take a photo, purely because you have a camera, there's something in front of you to take a photo, so you are like, what the heck? Only to come home, edit the photo and realise it's actually one of the best photos you have ever taken?

That's this photo for me. I took it, because I was bored. We had packed up camp, and we were waiting for something, I can't remember what, so I walked a little way off with my camera, fitted with my wide angle lens.

I had just discovered that my Samsung Galaxy takes a pretty mean panorama. I mean, it put's a lot of my distorted efforts to shame. So I was in a state of denial, determined to out-beat my smartphone and take a cracking panorama on my camera. I decided to use a technique I have seen others use but I admit, I have derided. That is putting your camera on burst mode and taking heaps of photos as you pan around. It's a pretty good option if you don't have a tripod and the sun is bright.

So off I traipsed determined. I soon realised that I had to time my pan to be faster at the start and slower towards the end, to match my camera's memory speed. One thing I have noticed about my CF card, although it's a pain I need a card reader for it and they are hideously expensive, they are actually really fast at capturing information. Or maybe I just lucked it out on a good one.

The results - yeah, I was pretty happy with them. And yes, hands down beats out the smartphone! Take that Galaxy!