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If only I could have gotten rid of the power lines... |
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These spectacular cliffs along the Ka`iwi Coast of O`ahu are next to the parking lot for the Moloka`i Lookout, between Hanauma Bay and the Hālona Blowhole. One cloud bank passed by, giving a dark band at about the 40% area. This is a 18 row x 48 column image. I thought it would be much larger, but I probably set the angle of view incorrectly and got too much overlap between images. How many fishermen can you find? |
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What: 2008 State Fair of Texas
http://www.bigtex.com When: Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 Where: Fair Park, a 277-acre entertainment and recreation complex owned by the City of Dallas, is located two miles east of downtown. The park is the year-round home of the Music Hall, Cotton Bowl and eight museums. Fair Park is a National Historic Landmark and boasts the largest collection of art deco exposition buildings in the United States. Big Tex Big Tex made his debut at the 1952 State Fair of Texas. Wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, Tex towered 52' above wide-eyed visitors. His denim jeans and plaid shirt were donated by the H. D. Lee Company of Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Cosmetic surgery the following year straightened his nose, corrected a lascivious wink and allowed him to talk. From The Great State Fair of Texas – An Illustrated History, by Nancy Wiley. HISTORY: The first State Fair to be held in Dallas was presented at this location in 1886. Fair Park was the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition which ran for six months and attracted 6 million people. An extended 31-day Fair in 1986 celebrated the Texas Sesquicentennial and drew almost 4 million visitors. |
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Panorama centered straight up from the corner of Buci and Seine in Ste-Germain-des-Pres, Paris. |
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Back to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/countingphotons/4107962241/ |
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The view north from Airport Road. Hand-held, single row of pictures with Canon XTi set at 39mm. |
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Some of the best light a photographer could ask for... well worth delaying breakfast a little while. |
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Just as I arrived there was an amazing rainbow over the mountains, but of course the sun disappeared behind the clouds a few minutes before I got the gigapan set up. I waited for 20 more minutes until the sun came out again and then shot this in the 5 minute window before the sun set behind the mountains. The camera was having problems focusing and so the system was missing images. I ended up shooting a 2nd gigapan right after the first and then replacing the blurry and missing images with pics from the 2nd set which didn't have as good light since the sun was going down. Those are the darker patches in the image. This overlook is just up the hill from my house so I might start trying to shoot the same gigapan every few days to work on doing some gigapan timelapse with the images. |
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The silly train was only stopped for a short while, not long enough to catch the engine or wait for sunshine. The Brocken is the highest point in Central Germany at 1100+ Meters elevation. The steam powered tourist train starts in the villages in the valleys below and winds its way up to the top of the mountain. Wikipedia says that the Brocken was a former Soviet listening station and was walled off until the fall of the Berlin wall. Now it is an immensely popular tourist destination. One amazing thing about this gigapan is that I somehow happened to capture, in 1/800 of a second, the flash from the lady's camera on the terrace. Who woulda thought... |
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180 degree panorama of Liebenthal, Kansas. Shot from the same vantage point as the higher resolution view of the cathedral (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2397). |