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The abrupt east face of the San Rafael Swell where I-70 pierces it. Outside of Boulder, Colorado you'd be hard pressed to find a better example of hogbacks. |
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The two days that I tried to shoot the Tetons at sunrise ended up being cloudy to partly cloudy. The light was better the day I shot this one than the day before (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30797/), but not what I was hoping for. Nonetheless, I had time to kill while the sun got to work burning off the clouds, so I went for high detail - 4.2 gigapixels worth, as it turns out. |
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Do you think there's a shallow magma chamber here? |
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Large panorama of a roadcut near Gouverneur, NY known as "The Trainwreck". There are remarkable boudinage features in this high-grade marble that mark the train cars scattered off the track. |
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The West Castleton Fold was the subject of my second ever (non-robotic) GigaPan (http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1204). This shot illustrates the axial region of a recumbant syncline in the Poultney Formation of the Giddings Brook Slice of the Taconic Allochthon. This outcrop is a textbook example of axial cleavage-bedding relations in the hinge of a fold. There are some remarkably ptygmatically folded quartz-rich layers interbedded with the slates. Although the light was not optimal when I visited it this summer, I was able to shoot a far more detailed GigaPan using the Epic100 robot. Light was fading as sunset approached, so I've taken this shot into Photoshop in order to try to optimize the image. The original (pre-photoshopping) metadata is included below: Stitcher Notes: GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.4090 (Windows) Panorama size: 4250 megapixels (88928 x 47795 pixels) [Cropped in Photoshop to 4032 megapixels - 85663 x 47063 pixels] Input images: 840 (35 columns by 24 rows) Field of view: 87.1 degrees wide by 46.8 degrees high (top=42.8, bottom=-4.0) Settings: All default settings Original image properties: Camera make: Canon Camera model: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS Image size: 3648x2736 (10.0 megapixels) Capture time: 2009-06-03 19:07:07 - 2009-06-03 20:01:44 Aperture: f/5.7 Exposure time: 0.025 ISO: 200 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 565.2 mm Digital zoom: off White balance: Fixed Exposure mode: Manual Horizontal overlap: 23.9 to 51.8 percent Vertical overlap: 23.4 to 68.4 percent Computer stats: 3069.98 MB RAM, 2 CPUs Total time 14:38:02 (1:02 per picture) Alignment: 3:45:13, Projection: 45:49, Blending: 10:06:59 |
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Morning view of the east face of Mount Rainier from Sunrise Ridge. |
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This GigaPan illustrates the Yellowstone River eroding down through a series of sediments and lava flows that have filled its valley in the last two million years. The prominent columnar jointed lava flows across the canyon are about 2 million years old and sandwich a layer of probable glacial till. The light was great when I started this GigaPan and lasted until about halfway through shooting it. At that point a cloud came in and blocked out the sunlight. After pausing the panorama for about a half an hour waiting for the return of the sun and a couple of brief but futile restarts I finally adjusted the camera settings to reflect the cloudy conditions and resumed. The results aren't as spectacular as if I'd had good sunlight throughout, but not as bad as they could've been. Someday I'll have to get back here on a nice sunny day and shoot a GigaPan that does the view justice. |
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The cliff face consists of granitic gneisses cut by basaltic dikes. It is elevated above the surrounding area by a fault near the edge of the Adirondack Mountains. |
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In many ways, this view of Lower Yellowstone Falls has superior lighting as compared to the one that I shot the previous day (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30677/). In particular, and thanks to the tip from professional photographer Roger Devore (http://www.devorephoto.com), who was set up immediately to my right, there's a particular optical effect visible here that only happens for a brief window each day. Can you find it? |
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Say good morning to a beautiful cross section through the Columbia River Flood Basalts in Sun Lakes State Park, Washington. |