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Third of five from yesterday... |
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A 360 degree panorama of a fantastic art gallery in Durham, NC. That's me sitting at the computer. |
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Originally intended to be about twice as wide, my Gigapan Beta unit contracted the deadly Whirling Dervish/Spiral of Death disease upon completing column number 38. (Fear not, it's fixed now - a relatively low tech solution, I simply "unwound" the robot. Aaahh, the joys of Beta testing!)
Nonetheless, the resulting image is a compelling look at the Weber Sandstone which is folded into an anticline (south limb visible in the gigapan) that is cleaved by the downcutting Green River. Hogbacks of the yellow and red Park City Formation lap onto the south side of the Weber like waves breaking on a beach. The red siltstones of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation form a strike valley at the right of the image - to the west this strike valley is known as the Racetrack as it wraps around the nose of the plunging Split Mountain Anticline. |
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This is the view to the west at the intersection of Main and Seventh Streets in Hays, Kansas. Prominently featured are the Ellis County Historical Society and the Brunswick Antique Mall. The real reason I shot this, however was to capture the Felten Sculpture "Street Singer" near the center of the panorama. |
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The Tertiary Ogallala Formation is best known as the host rock for one of the largest freshwater aquifers on Earth. In Ellis County, Kansas the Ogallala is exposed at the surface and forms resistant hill-capping exposures such as the ones seen in this Gigapan.
My largest Gigapan yet at 2.45 gigapixels, this monster is stitched from 726 individual photos and took over 40 minutes to shoot. If the Gigapan robot were able to interrupt the shooting sequence and allow me to move the camera arbitrartily to capture transient phenomena (and then resume the panorama where I interrupted it) I'd have been able to capture a pair of wild turkeys in flight and a herd of cattle that wandered into the field. Not that there's a lack of things to see in this one, but being able to capture transient phenomena such as these would make this image significantly more interesting and educational. |
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Ocoee Outdoors Rafting
View others from Ocoee: http://share.gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=ocoee |
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El acueducto de los Milagros era una de las conducciones que, en época romana, suministraban agua a la ciudad de Emérita Augusta (actual Mérida, España). |
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Usually all eyes are on the bean (Cloud Gate) in Chicago Millennium Park, www.millenniumpark.org, but not today. It?s because Strange Fruit is performing their unique elevated dance a top 4 meter poles that bend and sway at their will; www.strangefruit.net.au. |
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Located in Hot Springs, South Dakota, the Mammoth Site is the site of 27000 year old sinkhole and hot springs. Mammoths (mostly Columbian, but a couple of Woolly Mammoths too) occasionally wandered into the sinkhole and became stuck in the mud and unable to escape. As a consequence many mammoth skeletons were preserved in the accumulating sediment layers in the sinkhole. A contractor discovered a mammoth bone during an excavation for a subdivision in 1974 and fortunately he and the city of Hot Springs had the foresight to recognize the potential for both science and tourism. Both have been realized in a greater way than either could have imagined. |
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Intersection of Aiken and Centre. Showing the First United Methodist Church. This intersection is also the end of Liberty Avenue, as it merges into Aiken. |