Here are a few from 2004 in China.
These were all taken handheld with a Canon 1D MkII.
Manually husking hand-planted, hand-cultivated, hand-picked corn
This is a tough vertical pan of a very tall statue housed inside a building. If I recall correctly, it was >20 meters tall. Modern stitching tools, such as current versions of Photoshop, would greatly improve this pan. The tools available back then really struggled with this one, especially the distortion introduced by the short lens.
This is a good example of what happens when you are very close to a large subject and attempt to use a stationary camera pan to cover the entire area. Note that I am looking directly down at the feet, as you can see the open top of the offerings there, and am looking almost directly up at the face.
Obligatory Great Wall pan.
Pans arguably work best for large-scale, grand, "open top" subjects such as this where the panorama accentuates the main horizontal or vertical features of the subject.