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Scooter Shooter - All batteries now on "GO," including the camera battery. and down the path that runs along the main roadway through this forested development we roll. About when this summertime-100-degree heat makes life aboard the little mobility scooter next to impossible, we cross over the small red bridge under which the fishies have set up their review stand. There they can look up at our bottoms as we roll over the bridge - and you can hear the laughter as the fish watch us as we roll across. Not too much farther along the pathway we bring the scooter to a stop. Out comes the camera. Pointing the camera back toward the little red bridge, the camera shutter button gets its first click. Then, the camera is rotated a very small amount to the side of the bridge and its shutter button clicked again. Keeping up the camera rotation in that same direction, one photo after another is made until the camera has gone around in a big circle - and there is that bridge once again. Back at the computer with all of those images, they are stitched together to show the scene, front and back, left and right - a panorama of the view from the pathway - almost like you have eyes on all sides of your head as you sit there on the scooter, roasting that head off as the summer sun beats down on you. About that time you think of those fish down there below the little red bridge. They have it made, don't they, swimming around in that nice cool water? And there you sit in the blazing heat atop the mobility scooter, spinning around in a circle, shooting photos with the camera as if you really do know what you are doing. It takes all kinds of people to make up a world full of them, doesn't it? Image: Pathway Over the Little Red Bridge - Gus Kilthau