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SF Love Parade 2008 getting down at san Francisco's Civic Center. This image is taken from 120 still images stitched with gigapan stitcher version 0.4.2735 photos shot with canon G9 mounted on the gigapan panoramic robot. Exposure was variable ( notice some exposure issues as a result ) but otherwise pretty good for such a large crowd of moving people. |
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Note: Broken zipline due to movement of zipline in various stitched images.
Robson Square is a landmark civic centre and public plaza of modernist concrete, located in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the site of the Provincial Law Courts, UBC Robson Square, government office buildings, and public space connecting the newer development to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Robson Square is the only public outdoor skating rink in Vancouver BC. |
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A handheld (!) panorama taken around 3pm on 31 Dec 07 from the Southeastern Harbour Bridge Pylon lookout.
There are a few badly stitched bits (missing top of bridge, city buldings crooked), but it was hard enough work as it was :) 350 images in final from over 400 shot |
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In Kotzebue we really enjoy the 4th of July. By now most of the snow is gone. The water is free of ice, and it's very refreshing if you decide to go for a brief swim.
We start with a 9am parade, which features floats made by local businesses and organizations. We show off our firetruck and the ambulance and the search and rescue vehicles. When the parade is over, people of all ages gather in this field for a day full of activities. This panorama was shot around 3pm. Over to the left, there is a lip sync contest in progress. By the shore, booths are selling steaks and burgers, Chinese food, cotton candy, funnel cakes, snow-cones and other goodies. Kids with painted faces are jumping in the brightly-colored bouncers on the right. What makes Kotzebue on the 4th of July different from other cities on Independence Day? Well, we have a muktuk eating contest. We have the Miss Arctic Circle contest where young ladies wear traditional Inupiat clothes. With the temperature in the 80's, they were especially warm in their fur coats, hats, mittens and mukluks. Many of them wore coats that were far older than they were. We watch water-skipping, where snowmobiles race across the open water. Our celebration is different in another very important way. With the midnight sun, we don't have fireworks on July 4th. There might be some firecrackers popping off around town, but the aerial displays so common elsewhere are not a part of our July 4th celebration. |
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In 1987 the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco turned 50 years old.
The Golden Gate Bridge was closed to traffic in the morning so pedestrians would have a chance to stroll across the bridge as they did 50 years before when the bridge first opened to the public. What ended up happening was an unexpected amount of people showing up. No strolling took place. This panorama was taken to show the vast amount of people that showed up that morning. Note, if you look at the areas in front of the first tower you'll notice the bridge is pretty level. This isn't normal. The road usually bows upward, but the weight of the people on the bridge caused the road to flatten out. Nobody was in danger as the bridge wasn't about to collapse. This panorama was obviously taken before digital cameras and way before Gigapan was a glimmer in the eyes of NASA. Unfortunately I used a slow shutter speed (1/125) on my Nikon FE (50mm lens) to capture the people as they moved along, hence the blurry faces. However, the picture definitely shows the chaos and the massive crowd that came to celebrate. Needless to say I don't think they'll be doing this in 2012 when the bridge hits its 75th anniversary. |
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At the Celebration there were over 37 000 singers, dancers and musicians. Unofficially, 153 900 tickets were sold during three days long celebration. The first concert of song celebration brought together 52 000 spectators, at the second, today's concert the number of the audience according to the ticket sales was 68 000 (singers, dancers, musicians, teachers and conductors uncounted). At this year's Song and Dance Celebration 864 choirs and brass orchestras with 26 430 singers and musicians performed along with 534 dance and gymnastic groups with 7460 dancers and gymnasts. In addition to Estonian singers and dancers, 41 foreign collectives with 1340 singers participated at the celebration. There were singers and dancers from USA, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Finland, Denmark, Ukraine, Russia and Hungary. |