Panorama Photo

Sarajevo is in itself such a mixture of different cultures and religions, that for one time I tried a collage to describe it.
Of course the work is not exhaustive, since I set to myself the precise limit to employ only photos which were in themselves stitched. This way, many important features of the town are not covered: the central, or Pigeons' square, and even the cultural and historic centre of the city, namely, the Turkish Bascarsija, just to name the most striking examples!
However, rather than listing what is lacking (which would be a very demanding work...) let me describe what there is inside:

1. A view of a W suburb, starting with a Catholic church and ending with a mosque;
2. A room in the Svrzina Kuca, the residence of the merchant family Svrzo, showing how was the life of a rich family in the Ottoman age;
3. The Istiqlal Mosque at Otoka, along the so called Snipers' Alley, the road connecting the centre to the airport, which at the time of the siege was deadly dangerous due to Serbian soldiers shooting from the nearby hills;
4. The Sarajevska pivara, that is, the local "Bräuerei", in curious architectural agreement with the nearby catholic church of Sv. Ante Padovanskog, a saint who is very well represented in Bosnia;
5. The Fine Arts Academy, along the Mlijacka river, with a wedding photographer at work on the bridge. Curiously, our trajectories seemed to be in curious agreement that evening (picasaweb.google.com/albertopedrotti/Balcani_1#5937910400335182562);
6. The big Serbian Orthodox church, although the true jewel of the genre is the old and humble Old Orthodox Church, with its wonderful iconostasis;
7. War wounds not far from the first photograph; note the contrast with the perfectly new mosque;
8. On the Snipers' Alley, not far from the previous photo...
9. The interior of the wonderful Ghazi Husrev-Bey mosque: I think, the most valuable monument in Sarajevo. This is a crop from a spherical panorama made from 24 handheld photos - something truly unwieldy to stitch! The result, also with its unavoidable imperfections on top, can be seen in www.panoramio.com/photo/97353208;
10. At the Olympic resort of Babin Do, on the northern flank of the Bjelasnica, few kms from the town and, still more surprisingly, 16 linear kms from the timeless spot of Stecci Luka (N.14079) and 12 linear kms from the similarly timeless Lukomir (N.14217).
I know that a work like this is exposed to every sort of criticism, and that there would be hundreds of ways to improve on it, not to speak of the easy way of withdrawing it. However, I decided to try something new to me, instead of always producing one and the same thing for time n.100 - actually, n.141 here on PPH!
With 1200 instead of 500 pixel on static.panoramio.com/photos/original/99327584.jpg