Roundography

Stand in your favourite spot and spin around slowly. Imagine that everything you see all around is just in front of you, no further away than the stretch of your arm. It's as if the image has been perfectly painted on the inside of a sphere with you at the centre, like standing inside a planetarium.

Now imagine that the sphere is squashed flat so that it becomes two-dimensional. You are now imagining a roundograph.

Roundography is a collection of colourful and textured spherical panoramas taken in Britain and Ireland in the last three years. Turn the book in your hands to join Lucy Martin as she spins around from her vantage point.

An informative how-to section describes her technique so that you can be a roundographer too.