We hope you like our Distorted Oxfordshire images - because they made our photographer feel faintly ill. Just as digital photography had done away with the need for a dark room, our snapper felt a strong urge to lie down in one.
 | | The panoramic lens sits on top of the camera. |
Such was the effect of mis-using a camera with a 360-degree panoramic lens to create our strange effects.
Shape-wise, the lens looks like half an orange that's been shoved on a squeezer the wrong way up. It sits on top of the camera, "seeing" in every direction except straight up and down.
We dimly remember the manual saying that a spirit-level must be used to keep the lens level.
The photographer sets the timer and then squats under the tripod, to avoid being in the picture.
After months of grinning inanely at passers-by from under the tripod, we rebelled.
 | | Our photographer in action (and in the picture) |
We tilted the camera.
Then we got reckless, and picked up the tripod and held it high in the air at implausible angles.
Suddenly, the world went wobbly. Buildings bulged. Hills rose up where there were no hills. Long, straight things became twisted and bent. We grinned a twisted grin.
Our results show what the world would look like if we could see in several directions at once.
People often give us funny looks when we're taking photos these days.
We just smile and say, "It's all right. We're from the BBC." 
Click the pic to see Headington's shark
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