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.

Important Note:

I have noticed problems in playing wmv movies on the latest versions of Forefox. The audio will play but there is no video or player. If you have this problem with any of the videos and animations on this site use the back button on your browser then the foreward button to get you back to where you were and it should work.

I am slowly changing all the wmv's to flash but it will take some time.

Rendered Hills

This section 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 and pictures above as well.

24th June 2009: Upgraded the Zanskar and Ladakh photo page as Kangchenjunga, below.

21st June 2009: Given the Kangchenjunga photos a similar treatment to those below and embedded Google map of the area.

15th May 2009: Upgraded the slide shows and main pages for Paine and Annapurna.

22nd April 2009: Re formatted the slide shows for Everest and K2 in flash like the Nanda Devi ones. Also upgraded the base pages and improved the Nanda Devi slide show.

30th March 2009: Added photo comps, panoramas and trek animations to the Nanda Devi section of Rendered Hills.

14th March 2009: Added many photos of the Nanda Devi Trek with slide show, panoramas,video and zooms.

13th December: Added a few photos of Kirsty and Toby's Wedding to the family section.

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

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