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As the Laurentide glacier retreated from the Champlain Valley 13,600 years ago, the ice damned the valley and Glacial Lake Vermont rose to about 170 m (550 feet) above sea level, which is the elevation of the camera. This sand and gravel was carried by an ice-marginal river that built kame terraces until it reached the lake where it dumped fine sediments into the standing water forming a delta more than 4 km long.
This quarry is the source of material that is spread on snow-covered roads in Salisbury. It is being sorted and stockpiled this month. Notes: I used a Nikon D40 with Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens, f/8, 1/160 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 450mm. Field of view set to 3 degrees. |
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Rattlesnake Point is the ultimate vantage for Lake Dunmore and most of Salisbury, Vermont. I took a panorama from here on August 1, but it was so hazy it would not stitch properly. After a month of hazy or cloudy weather, I returned to this point on September 2, but it was the day public schools opened in Vermont, so there were no swimmers and few boaters. There was also no one else on the trail, which climbs 283 m (930 feet) above the lake, and it was a wonderful morning hike.
Technical notes are in a comment. |
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From the top of McCardell Bicentennial Hall, the tallest building on campus, looking east to the Green Mountains of Vermont. It is a quiet Friday afternoon, but with much anticipation for the weekend's upcoming Quidditch World Cup. The quidditch pitches can be seen in the largest field in the scene.
Some technical notes are in a comment. |
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White pine, red oak, and paper birch are common in this view today because two centuries of timber removal has reduced the success of the original late successional dominants. According to the "witness trees" noted in the original lot surveys in Salisbury, the most common trees in the late 18th century were American beech, sugar maple, and eastern hemlock . In this scene, most of the green tree foliage is of white pine, and the rich brown foliage includes red oak and white oak. The brightest yellow leaves are aspen, but leaves of some red maple, sugar maple, and paper birch are also yellow.
This panorama is a repeat of http://gigapan.org/gigapans/28882/ which was taken in summer with a poorer lens. Some technical notes are in a comment. |
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The Crown Point Bridge was abruptly closed on October 16, 2009 after underwater inspection revealed dramatic deterioration of two support piers. Built in 1929 between Chimney Point, Vermont (right) and Crown Point, New York (left), it is one of only two bridges that cross Lake Champlain. The bridge is not expected to open again soon, if ever, and local businesses and several hundred daily commuters are scrambling to cope.
News update (November 9, 2009): The bridge is too unstable to repair and must be demolished. http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/november/new-york-vermont-replace-champlain-bridge The shores which so spectacularly narrow the lake here have a long history of human occupation and drama. Ruins of a 1731 French fort and the larger British 1759-1763 Fort Crown Point can be seen under the arched through-truss. On the Vermont side, the Chimney Point Museum occupies a two story 1780s brick tavern where Seth Warner plotted the American capture of Fort Crown Point. In 2000, the bridge made cameo appearances in What Lies Beneath (Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer) and Me, Myself, and Irene (Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger). Notes: I used a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens at f/11, 1/250 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 450mm, and field of view was set to 3.1 degrees. Focus was manually adjusted many times. Two second shutter delay was initiated by wireless remote. Lightroom was used to remove vignetting and increase exposure and saturation before outputting jpegs for stitching. |
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Sutro Baths area 4 days later than my previous. I've included the other part of the area that wasn't in my previous panorama. I also sharpened the pictures so you can see more details.
I found numerous activities taking place, from fishing, surfing, jet skiing, climbing, animal/bird watching to hiking. Interestingly there's a person sitting by a seal that had clearly died and was bloated, thus decomposing and smelling. To compare the area 4 days previous see http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27746 |
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Sutro Baths, the newly renovated Cliff House and Seal Rock (yes, there are seals on the rocks) in San Francisco on a very windy day.
Same area, different perspective: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27665 View from the other side of the mountain: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27659 Here's a link to what Sutro Baths used to look like. http://www.alamedainfo.com/postcards_of_san_francisco_3.htm Notice the buildings, the trams, the statues, etc. There used to be a place where there were roller coasters, other rides, and arcades at Playland. It was quite an exciting area. Today you see...well, what you see in my pictures. |
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Sutro Baths ruins with Seal Rock (yes, there are seals on the rocks) and the Cliff House in San Francisco on a really windy day.
Same area, different perspective: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27746 View from the other side of the Cliff House: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27659 Here's a link to what Sutro Baths used to look like. http://www.alamedainfo.com/postcards_of_san_francisco_3.htm Notice the buildings, the trams, the statues, etc. There used to be a place where there were roller coasters, other rides, and arcades at Playland. It was quite an exciting area. Today you see...well, what you see in my pictures. Nikon D700, 75-150 series E, Vivitar 2x Macro tele extender |
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I tried to make a panorama with pictures zoomed in at 300mm with a DSLR camera without a tripod.
It's a little over 100 megapixels. I don't realy like the colors and the angle of this picture, but hey: it was my first test with zoomed in pictures. :-) |
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Looking west toward the Adirondack Mountains and the Palisades on the New York side of Lake Champlain. This is the lake's steepest, most pristine, and maybe most picturesque stretch of shoreline. The sheer cliffs extend 100 feet above the water, and another 140 feet below it. This morning saw the first frost for most of the Champlain Valley, and a layer of cold air over the warmer lake water created the conditions for a mirage (cooler, denser air above warmer air). The mirage is evident where the shoreline is most distant.
Notes: I used a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens at f/8, 1/500 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 450mm. Two second shutter delay initiated by wireless remote. Field of view set to 3 degrees. Photos were de-vignetted and punched up a bit before stitching. |