I've always enjoyed landscape and cityscape photography. Buildings and architecture, mountains and seas: none of them move! The photographer has complete free-rein to bring the subject to life through lighting, composition and so forth. This also means the photographer has nobody to blame but themselves.
I feel that in 2010 I have probably reached a plateau with my landscape photography, though my architectural shots have improved (especially on my weekend in Edinburgh). In 2011 I shall have to invest in a landscape course to improve.
Just as with tone-mapping, panoramas are a relatively "technical" photograph, and I find my technical brain is relatively good at these kinds of pictures. As the year as progressed, I've tried some more ambitious and challenging panoramas, including HDR panoramas, the application of tone-mapping to MDR images, and polar coordinate panoramas ("planets").
The two big lessons learned: using a tripod helps hugely, and taking panoramas from a moving boat doesn't help achieve something seamless.
