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Time for those red-blue glasses again!
And Wow! Look at that depth of field! |
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This is the Wilson Creek Coulee badlands near Drumheller, Alberta, part of Dinosaur Provincial Park. Many of the fossils in the Tyrell Museum have come from these badlands.
There's a young girl peeking out from behind one of the hoodoos. ( I'll let you find her and do a snapshot of her) High resolution large format view in Google Earth: http://maps.pbase.com/darby2/image/113204546# |
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View of one area within Cedar Pass located near Old Northeast Road and Badlands Loop Road
GPS COORDINATES: 43° 45' 36.66" N 101° 56' 15.32" W PANORAMA DETAILS: Created from 40 - 14.6 megapixel images Format: 10 columns wide, 4 rows deep Capture Date: September 30, 2009 GIGAPAN SIZE: 47803 X 8463 pixels (149 x 28 inches) EQUIPMENT: Canon PowerShot SD990 IS and GigaPan. TECHNICAL: 133mm focal length, f/5.8, 1/160 sec., 80 ISO. FIELD OF VIEW: 167.5 degrees wide by 30 degrees high. TIME TO STITCH: 3:40 |
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View of the Ben Reif Visitor's Center at the Badlands National Park in South Dakota
GPS COORDINATES: 43° 44' 958 N 101° 56' 544 W PANORAMA DETAILS: Created from 78 - 14.6 megapixel images Format: 26 columns wide,34 rows deep Capture Date: September 30, 2009 ORIGINAL GIGAPAN SIZE:50891 X 6030 , 1.07GB EQUIPMENT: Canon PowerShot SD990 IS and GigaPan. TECHNICAL: 133mm focal length, f/5.8, 1/160 sec., 80 ISO. FIELD OF VIEW: 185 degrees wide by 19 degrees high. TIME TO STITCH: 2:36 HR, TIME TO UPLOAD: 2:20 HR |
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Rising approximately 500 feet (152 meters) above the surrounding terrain, Sheep Mountain Table, topped with prairie grass, yucca and juniper trees, is a significant landmark in the Stronghold Unit (section) of the Badlands National Park. It’s reached in a 30-minute drive from the Ben Reifel Visitor Center in a section of the park contained within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Sheep Mountain Table is also unique because it’s the only "table"(flat topped mesa) in which it's possible to drive on to its summit using a narrow, steep single lane dirt road (NOTE: normally only accessible with a high clearance, 4- or all-wheel drive vehicle). The road terminates on the summit of a prairie-grass and yucca topped summit ends at a pull-out that reveals a breathtaking 360-degree vista of the park, nearby farms and communities, and distant mountains.
GPS COORDINATES: 43.77266 102.00306 ELEVATION: 3,106 feet (944.88 meters) PANORAMA DETAILS: Created from 117 - 14.6 megapixel images Format: 39 columns wide,3 rows deep Capture Date: October 17, 2009 GIGAPAN SIZE:104190 X 7389 (347 x 25 inches) , 558MB EQUIPMENT: Canon PowerShot SD990 IS and GigaPan. TECHNICAL: 133mm focal length, f/5.8, 1/100 sec., 100 ISO. FIELD OF VIEW: 365 degrees wide by 28 degrees high. TIME TO STITCH & UPLOAD: 8:22 HRS |
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Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. Historically it was an important landmark on the Butterfield Overland Trail.
(Berti is still hiding. Snapshot him if you find him!) |
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GPS COORDINATES:
E 43.85627" N 102.21918 PANORAMA DETAILS: Created from 114- 14.6 megapixel images Format: 19 columns wide,6 rows deep Capture Date: October 60, 2009 GIGAPAN SIZE:53131 X 11829 (147 x 26 inches) , 859MB EQUIPMENT: Canon PowerShot SD990 IS and GigaPan. TECHNICAL: 133mm focal length, f/5.8, 1/100 sec., 100 ISO. FIELD OF VIEW: 186 degrees wide by 31.9 degrees high. TIME TO STITCH: 6:15 |
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View of the panorama surrounding Ancient Hunters Overlook and the adjacent "Pinnacles" at Badlands National Park, South Dakota
GPS COORDINATES: 43.961191 " N -102.233276 PANORAMA DETAILS: Created from 64 - 14.6 megapixel images Format: 16 columns wide,4 rows deep Capture Date: October 6, 2009 GIGAPAN SIZE:44000 X 7736 (147 x 26 inches) , 558MB EQUIPMENT: Canon PowerShot SD990 IS and GigaPan. TECHNICAL: 133mm focal length, f/16, 1/100 sec., 100 ISO. FIELD OF VIEW: 152 degrees wide by 29 degrees high. TIME TO STITCH: 2:46 |
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Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation (Smoky Hill member) chalk, located in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. The chalk badlands at this locality owe their preservation to a caprock of Ogallala Formation conglomerates, visible atop the cliff at left and in boulders on the slope. |
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This 360 degree sunset pano is from a lookout at the Park's entrance.
The dinosaur fossils for which the Park is named are exposed as soil erodes from these cliffs. Tens of millions of years underground and they show up now; what are the odds? Presumably, if one examines the cliffs in this pano one might find a newly uncovered dinosaur fossil. The trick might be in recognizing it as such. (And of course the Parks people would then swoop down Pterodactyl-like and claim it! :-) ) |