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History of this location can be found here:
http://www.fpchouston.org/fpchouston/index.php?id=history The view in Google Earth is sort of incredible and makes the steeple more natural than the one-dimensional view in gigapan.org |
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This 360-degree panorama was taken at the south end of River Oaks Boulevard. Some say that this street is the only street in America that has at either end, a country club. Featured in this GigaPan is Lamar High School to the south, a quaint shopping area to the east and St. John the Divine Church to the west. The north end of River Oaks Boulevard acn be seen here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=28897 . Additional information concerning River Oaks can be found here:http://tinyurl.com/nw8mc4 |
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This GigaPan is of the nave of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church. The exterior view of the Church can be seen here: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/37836/ and is now in a series of three GigaPans: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/?q=salem+church Because of my interest in this Church, I attended their Christmas Eve service, the early one at 5PM, which was designed by the children of the Church and it was a good choice on my part to attend for it was very memorable. The service was entitled, Silent Night, but it was far from silent. It started with an organ cello prelude and then Scripture readings from Isaiah, Titus and Luke intermixed with lovely Anthems sung by the Salem Music Kidz: Ding Dong; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; Midnight Stars Make Bright the Sky (an amazing Chinese Carol). And then Christmas Carols sung by all of us: Joy to the World (by Isaac Watts ... my favorite hymnodist), Angels We have Heard on High, Away in a Manger; Silent Night, Holy Night; and Go Tell It on the Mountain. And several messages by Pastor David Roschke ( http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/37836/snapshots/110630/ ), and concluded by an organ Postlude, In Dulci Jubilo, written by Paul Manz. This GigaPan was stitched from 1,071 photos taken with a SX110 camera on a GigaPan robot. Actually, there were more than that taken; however, the 360-degree did not stitch as desired, but two marvelous GigaPans were extracted from the entire collection. Note: As can be observed from this view, the interior is bathed in natural light, which is typically different from other churches; however, this design provides a very positive impact for when I first entered the nave. |
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Actually, it is called the Cockrell Butterfly Center and Insect Zoo, but I have always heard it as the Butterfly Wing of the Museum. At any one time, it seems like there may be thousands of butterflies in this enclosure and in this particular panorama, we see a child with her mother experiencing the thrill of discovery as they pass the afternoon watching numerous butterflies endlessly fluttering by. A full description of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, including an external photo of the Butterfly Wing, can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Museum_of_Natural_Science This 360-degree panorama was taken hand-held with a Nikon D70 camera using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens and attached to the camera was a SB800 flash unit. |
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4 second exposures of downtown houston. The Tripod was balanced on a rail, balanced on a deck, balanced on the roof of an old building with people walking around on it. Therefore, there are some of the component shots that are blurry. I'm less sure as to why some of the shots don't line up. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. |
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This hand-held panorama was taken on a quiet Thursday and not so many people are in the park, but those that are here, are having a great time. Looking north towards Minute Maid Baseball Park, the home of the Houston Astros, we see Annunciation Parish Church where I took this GigaPan: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9837 This panorama was taken with a Nikon D70 camera using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. |
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This panorama was taken in Sam Houston Park where I went to search for this statue. A few years ago, when I first saw it, it was further up the incline to the east, but has now sort of been hidden and/or covered up by the trees. It was erected in 1908 and is truly historical.
The original panorama extended further to the right and other skyscrapers were visible but because of predominate artifacts, several columns were eliminated and this shorter version was created. |
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Just d/l the most recent Stitcher for my Mac, 0.4.3509 and it now can stitch this set without dark bands between the photos. Thanks to the Gigapan programming team for the improvement.
These electrical trucks all ended up on a cafeteria parking lot, which was packed with them. I did not get electricity back until a few days later, but when I saw these dudes, I was most happy. Hand-held with my Leica D-Lux 3 |
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The fall semester is now going into its third week of the school year and on this Labor Day morning, 2009, the fountain in Jamail Plaza is glowing with sunlight. We have taken GigaPans in this area before, but the fountain view screamed for yet another panorama of this beautiful plaza. Baker Hall is the home of James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University , and who can forget the GigaPan of Heather taken last December: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=13445 The panorama was taken hand-held using a Canon SX110 camera. |