It’s December and for me that means it is “blog every day month” an effort for which I have long since concocted a list of blog-able reflective topics called my December-ish posts each of which should do little more than offer a leaping off point for some rambling writing to fill up my daily blogging quota.

Today that topic is…

Describe the best picture
you took in 2025.

I’ve been trying to take the elusively perfect panorama picture since about a week after I got my first digital camera.

My success has varied. 

A few years ago the iPhone added the method that I use to this day, which if you’re sitting there reading this thinking, well duh, panoramic photos are just an option in your photos app dummy, then realize that until about a decade ago making panos was an effort of careful planning and then stitching pics together later in a piece of software and, gah! It really was a chore. 

But it wasn’t until 2024 that I managed to figure out a better way to display them on a website.

And in 2025 I actually published a wordpress plugin that lets me put panos onto blogs like this one in a way that sort of looks like this:

So. The best picture that I took this year? It must have been a panoramic, because among the thousands and thousands of pics I took knowing that I had finally got a bit closer to being able to share the perfect pano was definitely a high point.