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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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The Sound of Silence trailhead is the jumping off point for the first major geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see: http://hays.outcrop.org/GSCI454/
About four-fifths of the way through shooting this image I filled my camera's 4Gb memory card. After pausing for about twenty minutes to download the images to my computer I was able to resume the shot where I left off. The result is my largest GigaPan yet at 3.1 gigapixels. At the time of posting it's the tenth largest on the Gigapan.org site. |
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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 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! :-) ) |
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Fossil Preparation Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
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Come face to face with Sue, the largest, most complete and best-preserved T. rex specimen in the world. Notice each of Sue’s bones resting in its own hand-forged metal bracket - for scientists’ easy removal during research.
The Kenyan bull elephants have been standing in fighting pose here since 1921. Each North West Coast Haida Totem Pole, located to the right of the picture, was carved from a single, red cedar tree in the early 1890’s. Special note: The floor of The Field Museum is made of 300 million year old fossilized limestone. Look and Find: statues in Stanley Field Hall representing Dissemination, Knowledge, Research and Record (not shown) and the handmade lion head medallions along the wall. Zoom in: view in close proximity the recreated Waxaklahun-Ubah-K’awil, or “18 Rabbit.” This Mayan deity is wearing a headdress made of plants, animals and supernatural beings. (http://www.fieldmuseum.org, Location: 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605) This image was taken in partnership with the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Office of Tourism. |
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One of the more "interesting" areas of the FHSU Geology Summer Field Camp Red Wash mapping project in Dinosaur National Monument. Something unusual is going on with the geology in this image. Beyond that I cannot be more specific. ;-) For more information about our field camp see: http://hays.outcrop.org/GSCI454/
My original attempt to stitch this GigaPan ended up with a "twisted" stitch. Following advice on the forum that this might be the result of too much overlap in the original images I trimmed them and ended up with a much better result. I also used the Photoshop RAW format export option so that I could go in and crop out some of the jagged edges (something I haven't done previously with images too large to open as a TIFF file in Photoshop). This upload also marks the first time I've uploaded from a format other than TIFF. I'm pretty pleased with the results so far, though the real satisfaction will only be realized once I've lined it all up properly in Google Earth as a 360 degree embed... |
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Pterosaur view of Dinosaurs in Their Time Jurassic sauropods. |
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Taken from atop a hill of Frontier Sandstone this view encompasses the western end of the south limb of the Split Mountain Anticline in Dinosaur National Monument. The valley in the foreground is that of Red Wash. Much of the geology in this field of view is part of the first major geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see: http://hays.outcrop.org/GSCI454/
Originally intended to be a much larger shot, I gave up after cloudiness interfered with the exposure (banding at right side of image). |
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Juvenile skeleton of Camarasaurus lentus collected at the Carnegie Quarry (Dinosaur National Monument). |