thank you all.. so for this spherical pano I had to cut the bottom off (tripod) and it is not a full 360 deg, I had to cut the sides due to the tripod shadow. I need to go back and get the full 360 but the concept will be virtually identical. The advantage of the full 360 is that I can rotate to view either the entrance looking into the garden (this view) or the gates looking into the walkway to the rose garden (cut off in this image).