Here’s a neat photo trick I’ve seen recently, and decided to give it a shot myself.  The general idea is to take a 360 degree panorama shot, then map it to polar coordinates.  This produces a sort of weird spherical projection that looks like a tiny planet.  Called “Pano Planets” or “Wee Planets” (or various other names), the effect is striking.  Objects on the horizon pop out into space, while things in the foreground are flattened.

The neighbors must have thought I was pretty crazy spinning a tripod around on our roof, but I made one from the view at our house.