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Ohiopyle Falls on the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle, PA is the largest waterfall in western Pennsylvania. At the center of Ohiopyle State Park the falls marks the beginning of the fabled "lower Yough" a favorite of kayakers. After two heavy rains, the Yough was running high and muddy. |
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Shot by Randy Sargent.
This image was a preliminary study for the creation of a detailed, 360-degree panorama of the Pittsburgh area from the top of the US Steel Tower and produced in conjunction with an investigation being conducted by David Bear at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. For information: highpointpark@cmu.edu. View to the south: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34121/ |
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A sweeping panorama of the parts of Pittsburgh, PA USA visible from a lesser-known viewpoint in the Hill District of the city. The view is to the north and includes the Allegheny River, which flows from right to left. There are many landmarks visible, including about a dozen bridges and the two stadia. One can see people doing their Saturday morning Strip District shopping, three trains, many warehouses, many distant churches and thousands of individual houses lining the hillsides. Downtown is just out of sight to the left. (Made with the Gigapan beta imager robot) |
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This creek is called Farnsworth Branch, south of Clarendon, PA in the Allegheny National Forest. |
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Jonathan Minard and I went to Allegheny County Airport (AGC) in West Mifflin, PA to take a Gigapan of the building and runways. The airport is totally art-deco, and really beautiful inside--it's like a time capsule.
I think one of us shook the camera accidentally on this one, so there may be "jiggles" in it, especially around the straight lines (runway lines, the light pole, etc.) |
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The North Shore Connector project will extend Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail transit system, the T, 1.2 miles from the Gateway Subway Station underneath Stanwix Street (downtown Pittsburgh) and the Allegheny River in twin bored tunnels below the river to Pittsburgh's North Shore. Joe Appel/TRIBUNE-REVIEW |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 1
By: Andrew Weier Ranking 3rd in the U.S., Pittsburgh is home to 21 LEED certified buildings. Pictured here, The David L. Lawrence Convention Center is one of the first "green" convention centers in the world. Click on the snapshots to learn more about the center, as well as other green buildings in the Pittsburgh region. *info gathered from: http://www.gbapgh.org/Green_Building_Projects.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Lawrence_Convention_Center and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design |
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The North Shore Connector project will extend Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail transit system, the T, 1.2 miles from the Gateway Subway Station underneath Stanwix Street (downtown Pittsburgh) and the Allegheny River in twin bored tunnels below the river to Pittsburgh's North Shore. JASMINE GEHRIS/TRIBUNE-REVIEW |
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The low bridge over the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle, PA carries bikers and hikers from Ferncliff Peninsula into the village of Ohiopyle. Just downstream of the bridge is Ohiopyle Falls. The bridge was designed specifically for trail use. It replaces a larger bridge that carried the Western Maryland Railway. The WMdRwy was abandoned in 1975, and one section of the span was removed to ease a bottleneck on Rt 381 through Ohiopyle. When the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail was being built a complete span was necessary to avoid using highways for the trail. A new bridge was designed and built. The new span, seen here, was completed in 2000. |