This is the home page of Earth Shot. A site devoted to pictures of this planet, both real and computer generated.

The site is divided into the 6 main areas shown below. Use the tabs above to visit these pages or click the pictures. Clicking the banner anywhere on this site will bring you back to this page. Feel free to use any of my pictures as you wish - copyright will not be enforced.

Rendered Hills

This is the newest section that is dedicated to graphic renderings of the real world. The areas covered are the same as the treks so to get a better impression of these regions look in this section as well.

Mountains

This section contains many photos of the great Himalayan giants, Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga and Annapurna, as well as photos of Ladakh, Zanskar and the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan and the Huayhuash range in Peru, and Torres del Paine in Patagonia, Chile.

Australian Bush

Here we have pictures of the Australian Bush. I have been a keen bushwalker for almost 30 years and there are photos going back to the days when colour was a luxury I could not afford.

Exotic Places

This section is for photos that don't fit in with Mountains, such as ancient sites and interesting buildings.

Graphics

There are pictures and animations here generated with Lightwave, Bryce, Real3D and Terragen. Some places are real and some imaginary. There is some cross over between this section and Mountains as I have several renderings of mountains done with Terragen.

Family

This is a section of a personal nature that will be of limited interest to those not related to me. (You know who you are). I hope to build this area up later.

Most recent changes listed below.

All these sections can be accessed by the tabs above as well.

30th August 2008: Replaced QTVR panoramas of Annapurna with Flash versions.

23rd August 2008: Replaced QTVR panoramas of Khan Tengri and Kangchenjunga with full screen Flash versions.

17th August 2008: Updated the whole site during the transfer from Go Live to Dreamweaver. This process did not go smoothly, in fact it was a pain in the neck so there may be a few errors.

14th July 2008: Last Everest fly through done. Namchee to the Western Cwm. Visit the Everest in CG page to access all the graphics of the Khumbu region.

11th July 2008: Another two Everest flights rendered and running. Bung to Namchee Bazar and Namchee Bazar to Gokyo Ri or use the links from the Everest Animations page under "Rendered Hills"

9th July 2008: Added photographs of Lord Howe Island to the "Australian Bush" section

8th July 2008: New fly throuth Tumlingtar to Gokyo added to Everest animations.

6th July 2008: Re done the Everest in CG section under "Rendered Hills". Panoramas are now done with Flash and the landscapes have more detail.

13th June 2008: Added photos of Jenolan and Katoomba taken in March this year. Included in the Australian Bush section. Also updated the main Bush page with new menu and "Zoomify" panorama of the Grose Valley.

8th June 2008: Updated the Paine panoramas to Flash format for the reasons given below.

Any comments e-mail me on awr@earthshot.net