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Taken over the course of an hour, this is a view of the fields of northwest Ellis County, Kansas in late autumn. I caught an individual shot with an eight point buck just before I set this one up. Don't know if he's hiding in here, but there's certainly lots to find.
This is my first large landscape shot with the Canon SX10 IS at the full 20x zoom. There's a small hole where the camera missed a photo - otherwise I'm very pleased. |
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Can you find the newly planted ginkgo among the older trees? |
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Near the state line of Massachusetts and Vermont.
If drawing a line from the center of top edge to the center of right side, the triangle of top right corner (about 1/8 of the photo) is in Vermont, the rest is in Massachusetts. |
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This old cabin sits by the road into Wells Gray Park about 20 km north of Clearwater, BC. Autumn colors were at their optimum. I'm also trying to find some history about this cabin as it was built by one of the early pioneers in this area.
Using a relatively long focal length I locked the focus on the corner of the cabin so the background is in relatively soft focus with a shallow depth of field. |
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Mid October brings out a soft palette of pastel colors at Hemp Creek crossing, Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia. The hill behind the barn is covered in White Birch, Trembling Aspen, Douglas Fir, spruce, poplar and pine. The ruins of the old barn date from the early 1920's. |
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This was a test -- my first use of the gigapan beta hardware and software. The subject is a pond in the community where I live -- Westgate of Lincolnshire, IL. I particularly like the way the sky turned out, as well as the reflections in the pond. The camera was a Canon PowerShot SD800 IS, and 65 photos were taken (5 rows, 13 columns). After minimal cropping in Photoshop CS3 the size is 27115 x 7457 pixels. |
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The fall foliage of late September and early October brings leaf peepers to the roads of New England. These curious folks, whether driving themselves along the winding roads of the Green Mountains or riding a tour bus through the Berkshires, are looking for colorful leaves and maybe some New England products for home. The orange sugar maples, yellow birches and maroon oak trees provided a very nice show in Weston Vermont today. This store had pumpkins and other interesting items for sale.
Although outlet stores have recently invaded the bucolic New England landscape, there are still plenty of roadside farm stands and little stores that sell local produce, crafts and antiques. Maple syrup and Vermont cheese are popular with tourists and local folks year-round. Hay bales and pumpkins are very popular this time of year. This particular store in Weston VT is still a local establishment, but it has grown considerably over the decades. With internet and catalog sales, they aren't really a local road-side store anymore, but they still maintain a New England theme. The store did such a nice job getting into the rustic Vermont-in the fall spirit with their old truck, pumpkins, hay bales and hammocks that I though a gigapan was needed to capture the scene. So here it is, complete with some leaf peepers. The 21 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nokon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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It is the end of summer, and in some ways Kotzebue is like other cities in the Northern Hemisphere. The tundra is changing its lush green cover to fiery shades of yellow, orange and red. We are harvesting local fruits. In our case, it's time for the last of the blueberries and the first of the cranberries. The waterfowl are starting to fly south. The sun is setting early enough for people who work the day shift to enjoy a sunset.
Our 3 scheduled Alaska Airlines' flights are mostly on time these days with the fog season ahead of us as the sea ice returns and the cold and wind of winter following soon after. In this place without roads into or out of town, these planes are very important in our lives. The planes bring our mail and groceries. They fly us, our friends and families away for visits "outside." They bring us home when the time is right. This 45 frame panorama was photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. Please have a look at the autumn tundra as we see it from the end of the Kotzebue runway. |
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Looking west from Mt. Tabor at downtown Portland, Oregon during a November sunset. |
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My first 360 panoramic with Gigapan! Taken fromt he center of the garden |