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My apologies to those whose knowledge of the fierce territoriality of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds might make the above scene a perplexing distortion of reality. Rarely will the local male allow birds others than his mate to use a food source in his territory, so a feeding flock like this is impossible, and has a biological spookiness to it, like cloned pets. In a sense, the distorted reality is due only to the integration over time that is a feature of all GigaPan panoramas. It’s just highlighted here by selectively capturing the moments to integrate. This image is a record of one visit to my patio by a male (dark throat) and three visits by females (probably the same one).
In case Mom asks: EVERY ONE OF THE BIRDS IN THE PANO IS SHAUN WHITE (and his boo). (see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15884) Notes: The Epic 100 did not capture any birds in the panorama, so afterwards I turned off the imager, set the D40 to continuous shutter at 1/1600 second and single area autofocus, and waited. One can get carried away with this, so I made sure to drop in birds (and insects) only where they were actually photographed in the scene. |
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A quick shot taken while the workshop was in progress. I took this shot because the strong light through the windows would give me something to practice my tone mapping on, and because you can see two of the three 17-foot (5.2m) long gigapan prints that Illah brought with him. You can see the third here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=19954&snapshot_id=60485.
The gigapans featured here are: The Petra Great Temple from Behind (http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6790) and The Point from Mount Washington (http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3132). See http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3722 for another example of a gigapan print. |
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Still hazy. |
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Even at dinnertime there is some recreational activity on a warm Friday at Lake Dunmore. The lake marks the eastern edge of the Champlain Valley and the base of the first ridge of the Green Mountains. A stagnant mass of glacial ice probably sat in the lake's depression as the main lobe of glacial ice retreated to the north 13,500 years ago. The torrents of sediment laden meltwater from the retreating ice built kame terraces, alluvial fans, and deltas around the dead ice, but did not fill the entire depression with gravel and boulders. Lucky for us.
Notes: Photoshop was required to repair the sails. Stitcher notes are below in a comment. This panorama was updated on September 4, 2009 using a 300mm prime lens (http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=32058) |
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The intersection of Routes 7 and 53 in Salisbury is in the center of this scene. In the past 230 years, the composition of these forests has changed from dominance by American beech, sugar maple, and eastern hemlock to dominance by white pine, sugar maple, red oak, white ash, and paper birch. This reflects the increased importance of tree species that are successful on abandoned farmland and logged forestland.
A panorama of this scene taken in October with a better lens is at: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/35627/ |
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Can you find the newly planted ginkgo among the older trees? |
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How many cacti can you find in this GigaPan? (Species, if not individual cactus plants.) Points for the most original cactus and caption. Perhaps a biologist could actually use this for some sort of genuine scientific cactus count?
Next, find the hikers. And maybe someone lucky will find the jackrabbit... |
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Taken during Memorial Day weekend from the new Nichols Bridgeway at the north end of the art institute on Monroe street. The center of the image shows the Jay Priztker outdoor pavilion in Millenium Park. It was very windy on the bridge! |
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Rock City is a local park near Minneapolis, Kansas where dozens of meter-scale concretions of Dakota Sandstone have remained resistant to weathering. Berti and Edi (the rock gnomes) had a field day! See if you can find and snapshot them in all of their hiding places. |
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Mesic Red Oak-Northern Hardwood Forest on a kame terrace in Salisbury, Vermont -- Large diameter red and white oaks in this small stand are the most valuable timber in the 130 acre Salisbury Town Forest. Many trees could provide veneer-quality logs, making some worth a few hundred dollars apiece. Although the canopy is dominated by oaks, the subcanopy trees are mostly red maple, and virtually no oak seedlings or saplings are present. The large oaks established at the turn of the 20th century when wild turkey and white-tailed deer were uncommon. Today, healthy populations of these animals eat acorns or browse oak seedlings, preventing oak regeneration. Harvesting the oaks could result in conversion of the stand to less merchantable red maple or beech forest.
More information is in a comment. |