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Sometimes it's just nice to setup the robot and walk away while it shoots for seventy minutes. |
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In Trego County, Kansas, the Smoky Hill River has been dammed to form Cedar Bluff Reservior. This view shows the spillway and downstream areas along the Smoky Hill River. The day was a nice one, but spring has not quite sprung in this part of Kansas. In a few weeks things will green up a little and outdoor GigaPan photography will be much more enticing. Alas, Kansas will still be flatter than a pancake... |
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Taken over the course of an hour, this is a view of the fields of northwest Ellis County, Kansas in late autumn. I caught an individual shot with an eight point buck just before I set this one up. Don't know if he's hiding in here, but there's certainly lots to find.
This is my first large landscape shot with the Canon SX10 IS at the full 20x zoom. There's a small hole where the camera missed a photo - otherwise I'm very pleased. |
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This panorama was an attempt to stitch a 1500 shot (125x12) 360 degree panorama. It took 4 days to stitch, and I fear that the stitch didn't go as well as I originally hoped. That I didn't break the 4 gigapixel barrier suggests the resulting GigaPan is not as large as I was expecting. This may, in part, be due to the fact that I accidentally kicked the tripod and may have caused one image to misalign (without correcting it). We'll have to see what it all looks like once it's up on the site. |
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Formed by damming the Smoky Hill River, Cedar Bluff Reservoir is one of the larger man-made lakes in western Kansas. |
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High resolution view of a hillside in the Gypsum Hills, Kansas. Taken from the same spot as http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6895 |
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This is the view to the west at the intersection of Main and Seventh Streets in Hays, Kansas. Prominently featured are the Ellis County Historical Society and the Brunswick Antique Mall. The real reason I shot this, however was to capture the Felten Sculpture "Street Singer" near the center of the panorama. |
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The Tertiary Ogallala Formation is best known as the host rock for one of the largest freshwater aquifers on Earth. In Ellis County, Kansas the Ogallala is exposed at the surface and forms resistant hill-capping exposures such as the ones seen in this Gigapan.
My largest Gigapan yet at 2.45 gigapixels, this monster is stitched from 726 individual photos and took over 40 minutes to shoot. If the Gigapan robot were able to interrupt the shooting sequence and allow me to move the camera arbitrartily to capture transient phenomena (and then resume the panorama where I interrupted it) I'd have been able to capture a pair of wild turkeys in flight and a herd of cattle that wandered into the field. Not that there's a lack of things to see in this one, but being able to capture transient phenomena such as these would make this image significantly more interesting and educational. |
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... on a windy, cold January afternoon. |
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A Catholic high school located on the west side of Hays, Kansas, TMP recently celebrated its centennial. |