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This is a big gigapan I shot on Saturday evening. It's a huge Gigapan and took 16 hours to stitch. 47 images wide X 23 images tall totaling 1081 images.
I missed some of the balloons on the first pass so I backed the unit up and reshot a section. The lighter background in the sky was caused when I readjusted the exposure during shooting. The sun was setting fast and light was fading. EDS Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival - Plano, Texas - September 19 - 21, 2008 http://www.planoballoonfest.org/fest-facts.html Enjoy the "Lofty Visions" as 70 magnificent, colorful, hot air balloons fill the skies over Plano Friday at 6:00pm, Saturday at 7:00am and 6:00pm, and Sunday at 7:00am and 6:00pm (weather permitting). Fun for all ages, are the Special Shapes that attend the festival. This year, the special shapes include: High Jack, Miss Daisy, Pandy the Panda, Oggy the Dragon, and Woodrow C. Greenleaf. |
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A view of Bogota looking both north and south from Antiguo Country starting one hour before sunset running up to dusk.
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It's a beautiful morning in the Lakes Area of SpringHill Camps. |
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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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View of the mountains and streets around Bogota. This was taken from the roof of an apartment building in Antiguo Country looking towards the Calera road.
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See if you can spot the 260 Ladybirds basking in the sunlight (including the only one with it's wings out) ?
History...this is just one of a number of historic sites run by Jersey Heritage (www.jerseyheritage.org) Hamptonne House takes it's name from the family who bought the property in 1633. It was Laurens Hamptonne who proclaimed Charles II King, in the Market Place in St. Helier, in February 1649. Over the centuries this house has been transformed a number of times, as tastes changed. Originally it was a large single room open to the rafters, the first floor was added in the sixteenth century in order to allow the farmer and his family more privacy from the servants etc...... |
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this is standing on top of a hill on the 7 Gates Road heading into Lake Eucumbene, with the Snowy Mountains as a background |
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I went on a bit of a walkabout outside of Hursley, and discovered why the English talk of 'walking holidays' and why they value walking through the countryside. Short answer: paths and trails and beautiful country. |
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Laguna Blanca, La Cumbre Country Club, and the Santa Ynez Range near Santa Barbara, California. |
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Ski resort. Panoramic view over the French riviera and Corsica. |