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On the ground level there is not the view as there is on the 24th floor from the Skyline Club, http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30905 but still a nice view to the west looking into the city center and to the north from the closest intersection of Discovery Green and Minute Maid Park area. This panorama was taken with a Nikon D70 camera using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. The exposure was set in order to bring out the clouds. |
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The first-love of my GigaPan life was this Leica D-Lux 3 and I have brought it back to active use because of the soft-focus panorama I took of Belinda and the Cougars on UofH campus a few days ago. Although the Leica does not have the zoom that the Canon SX110 has, it has never provided blured images of any student on the campus of Rice University. Where the panorama was taken from is at the west side of the Academic Quad, a few feet in front of Fondren Library (remember its Friday, and I am usually here every Friday afternoon). Again, this hand-held 360-degree panorama was taken with a Leica D-Lux 3 and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software and additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run. Note: This gorgeous panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). |
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There is a better view if you click on, "View in Google Earth." Cheddars is close to WestPark Tollway and the Beltway and is where a lot of oil-field business is discussed during lunch. The restaurant is blocking the view of the many, many office buildings that are close by. Note: 15 minutes after this GigaPan was taken, there were no parking spaces to be found in this lot. |
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Hand-held using a Canon SX110... outside of Brenham, Texas. As one can readily observe: lots of cows and lots of bluebonnet flowers. |
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Hardly anyone to be seen in this view, but when I returned from taking the Japanese Garden panoramas, http://tinyurl.com/msqdnq, the scene was much different... people; students, teachers and museum employees every where and the young students going into the Natural Science Museum in order too... amazing how that can be accomplished!
This panorama has a view of the statue entitled, Hope of Humanity, and to my eye, more striking [due to the lighting] than the frontal view seen in http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26149. |
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Hand-held ... lots of shadows, but clearly one can see trash that may be on the curb for several weeks. I do not know where the city will take it. Can you imagine a city of the size of greater Houston and all the debris from Ike and the size of landfill required to accommodate the trash? My opinion is that all the leaves will get blown away somewhere else in the neighborhood to once again be picked up and and then put into plastic bags.
Companion to: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9133 |