I have been playing with skybox texturing for use with an XNA project. With practice the seamless flow will work when connecting all four boxes. My first attempt was just grabbing the digital camera and heading for a clear shot of the sunset. For the first run I took 20 or more pictures it took some time to line them all up.

The first image is a series of clips with effects from a skybox texture I am working on from scratch. It is not a full panoramic shot just a snip form the full scene under way. No pictures taken for this just playing in PaintShop Pro.

The second image is a panoramic from photography. The problem with this is it doesn't wrap well, the left side has to meet the right as if they were one night sky.