At the Woolgrowers

Sue's strong meds and their effects are keeping us fairly close to home these days. We are not doing our usual autumn colour rambles, but we have gotten out on little excursions for her photo prompts. This week's theme has to do with architecture, so we have been revisiting some local structures. One of these was the woolgrowers coop.

Once upon a time, it was a trainworks building, for our community was at the junction of a north-south line and an east-west line. Now it houses the woolgrowers cooperative, which is the wool grading station for all of Canada.

I have been in here many times previously, so I was mainly just hovering about while Sue was clicking furiously. or I was until this door ↓ beckoned to me.

My phone doesn't have a wide angle lens, and I was too close to it to get a regular photo, so I put it into pano mode and swept the camera upward to get the photo. 

It is, therefore, a very distorted image, but  I find myself rather liking the effect, so I haven't tried to correct it, Sometimes, one lucks out rather unexpectedly.

Since I had the phone in pano mode, I took some more photos. This is so darn easy with a phone; you just sweep the phone, and it does the rest on the spot. I remember when doing a pano with an actual camera was a laborious job involving a lot of manual fiddling and faddling. Of course, photo processing software also does it really well now, and regular cameras can usually also make panos, right in camera.

Once again, I am accepting the distortion under artistic license.

I am not much of a phone photographer, but I learned something with this ↓ final pano.

I loved the colour beyond the windows, but my first photo blew out the windows completely. However, when I tapped on a window (on the phone), it adjusted the lighting for the outside. I knew that tapping would set the focus, but I hadn't realized that it would also adjust the lighting. Phone software is quite marvellous.