Yes, that photo was made from 9 seperate photos of the stands. And you use tools to line up the matching parts, blend and balance the photos so exposures match in each view so you do not see dark and light bands from that. But if you could see the pic before I posted it, it would have been jagged on the top and bottom as the different pics had different focal lengths and FOV. So you loose some on those ends as you then need to crop for an cut on top and bottom.
Also, I had to try a few different things, because when moving objects are involved sometimes you get replicated people or things not lining up right. for the most part this one was pretty clean.
I shot this with the camera on the monopod, because the lens is to big to hand hold comfortably althought I have done it some around the house.