I recently re-read Kevin Barry's Night Boat to Tangier. The bad grammar, swearing, drugs and casual criminality, the darkness, and the way he denotes quotes (he doesn't) might turn one off, but not me. It got me thinking about a couple nights in Tarifa which is also a port town for bound-for-Tangier ferries. It's just up the coast from Algeciras, the town where the book is set.
Built in 960 by the Abd-ar-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba. Named for Alonso Pérez de Guzmán who bravely defended the castle when it was under siege in 1296.
Built in 960 by the Abd-ar-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba. Named for Alonso Pérez de Guzmán who bravely defended the castle when it was under siege in 1296.
Built in 960 by the Abd-ar-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba. Named for Alonso Pérez de Guzmán who bravely defended the castle when it was under siege in 1296.
This long, deep west-facing beach is windy and popular with windsurfers.
This long, deep west-facing beach is windy and popular with windsurfers.
This long, deep west-facing beach is windy and popular with windsurfers.
The thing about accidental panoramas is you often don't get enough along the edges or in the corners (of course this can happen in intentional panoramas too), so if you're beholden to photos-must-be-rectangular you may find the cropping necessitated by stitching is just too costly. Here, for example, to make this a rectangle I'd have to cut the orange boat, the one at the bottom of the image, in half and I really don't want to do that. So I left the image oddly shaped, just as it came out of the stitching process.
The thing about accidental panoramas is you often don't get enough along the edges or in the corners (of course this can happen in intentional panoramas too), so if you're beholden to photos-must-be-rectangular you may find the cropping necessitated by stitching is just too costly. Here, for example, to make this a rectangle I'd have to cut the orange boat, the one at the bottom of the image, in half and I really don't want to do that. So I left the image oddly shaped, just as it came out of the stitching process.
The thing about accidental panoramas is you often don't get enough along the edges or in the corners (of course this can happen in intentional panoramas too), so if you're beholden to photos-must-be-rectangular you may find the cropping necessitated by stitching is just too costly. Here, for example, to make this a rectangle I'd have to cut the orange boat, the one at the bottom of the image, in half and I really don't want to do that. So I left the image oddly shaped, just as it came out of the stitching process.