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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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Roadcut in shales south of Wilson Lake, Kansas. Can you identify it's proper place in the stratigraphy (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/09_meso.html#CRET) of the region? |
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Distant cliffs of Fort Hays Limestone. Use red/blue glasses to view the anaglyph 3D effect. Created from two 12x3 Gigapan images shot about 1 foot apart. Alignment, cropping, and anaglyph shading done in Photoshop. |
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An Easter Egg hunt on my front porch. There are three dozen eggs 'hidden', as well as two Easter bunnies, two Mainzelmännchen, one Eeyore, one Rubber Duckie, and if you look really closely you'll find the reflection of the photographer pointing to one of the hidden eggs.
Happy Easter and Happy Hunting!!! [Permission for media use is hereby granted.] |
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Time for those red-blue glasses again!
And Wow! Look at that depth of field! |
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If only I could have gotten rid of the power lines... |
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For my hundredth Gigapan I decided to reshoot one of my earliest panoramas (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1877). Once again I broke out the tele-converter lens for my Canon S5-IS, but this time I allowed enough overlap between adjacent photos in order to get rid of the vignetting in the original. This one is also my first stitch with the new Gigapan Stitcher 0.3.1820 - worked smoothly for me. |
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Normal fault in the Fort Hays member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, south of Stockton, Kansas. These chalk beds were originally deposited in the shallow Western Interior Seaway about 80 million years ago. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated. Faulting is post-Cretaceous and pre-Quaternary. |
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A drill rig is set up to put in another oil well in this field in southern Rooks County, Kansas. Numerous active pumpjacks and holding tanks are visible, as well as the grain elevators in Zurich, Kansas in the distance. |
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St. Fidelis church, better known as the Cathedral of the Plains, is located in Victoria, Kansas. It is one of a number of large Catholic churches erected by the Volga Germans who emigrated to the area around Hays, Kansas in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries.
Once again I've got vignetting and missed stitches because of insufficient overlap. This image was also challenging to capture because I had to incline the robot in order to capture the top of the steeple, thus the poor leveling of the left side of the image, for instance. |