A vertical panorama by Microsoft's I.C.E.

This is a B-I-G image - made from 8 separate images at about 14x optical on a Pentax X70 compact digital. It is 13,517 pixels high by 3610 wide and Google's image-handling setup here simply can't do it justice. But I'm showing it anyway, to give you an idea of what Microsoft Research's I.C.E (Image Composite Editor) can do if you drop a series of images into it. There's no manual positioning or anything like that - the program does all that automatically and very quickly, and voila! a picture like the above.