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Photo by Ian Griffith and Matt Grifith
Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco Blue Sky The Palace of Fine Arts- a brief history "The Palace was not designed as 'a Valentine for San Francisco.' Maybeck visualized its colonnade streaming with people, finding a reward within the great doors." The task of creating a Palace of Fine Arts for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition fell to the architect Bernard R. Maybeck, then fifty years old and known for his innovative ideas. Setting to work on this new project, he chose as his theme a Roman ruin, mutilated and overgrown, in the mood of a Piranesi engraving. But this ruin was not to exist solely for itself to show "the mortality of grandeur and the vanity of human wishes .... " Although it was meant to give delight by its exterior beauty, its purpose was also to offer all visitors a stimulating experience within doors. In playing host to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Fair, which opened on February 20, 1915, San Francisco was honoring the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the completion of the Panama Canal; it was also celebrating its own resurrection after the shattering earthquake and fire of 1906. The problems of choosing the exact site in the city had finally been overcome and groundwork had been going on for some time. Last of the buildings to be erected, on the lagoon and close by a group of Monterey cypresses, was Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts. With its exhibition hall to house the work of living artists (dominated by the Impressionists), its colonnade, and its rotunda -- plans for all of which had dazzled the Commissioners when the huge brown-paper sketch was put before them -- it fulfilled the architect's dream: it was as beautiful reflected in the water as it was against the sky. And when the Palace was completed (Roman in style although a freely-interpreted, purely romantic conception, and Greek in decorative treatment) its exceptional harmony gave it instant appeal to the public. |
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Red Rock Canyon is only 15 miles outside of Las Vegas and is spectacular any time of day.
Shot with Canon G9 |
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Oops, all our clones escaped into the CITY PARK. We tried to catch them but there are simply just too many!
Can you help us locate them all? We are also desperatly trying to locate the cloning machine, since they keep coming in larger numbers! |
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This one is the full set of shots, 14 rows by 10 columns, done with the Gigapan Stitcher. There was a lot of action but for some reason the stitcher has removed most of the people. Hmm |
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Another Panorama at the river Waal, this time at the town of Dreumel. The city of Tiel can be seen on the other side. Image was composed of 41 individual shots of 12 megapixels. Stitching took 1h30m |
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How many times can we be seen in this panorama of my friend's backyard?
Take snapshots for each of us. |
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Same as the previous but a straight conversion from raw using Aperture. |
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Started out with a 9X5 matix of photos with my Gigapan Robot. About a third of the way through I noticed the shutter failed to open on the 4th or 5th shot in a column. This is the largest set I was able to save. Problem solved as at the start of the second run the batteries failed. I realized that the batteries were low for the first run and were right on the edge. Lesson learned. Use fresh batteries for a great scene or at least charge the others overnight! This batch was taken raw and batch processed with Photomatix. The next one will be just a strait conversion for comparison. |
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Located in Utah, USA. Unusual sandstone (goblins) and the people who stroll among them.
Formed from eroded Entrada sandstone pinnacles. Featured in the film Galaxy Quest. |
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The neighbors are starting a great garden in their backyard. Thought I should take a gigapan before it's all installed! |