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180-plus degree panorama at the corner of Park Street and South Campus Drive on the campus of Fort Hays State University. Sheridan Hall is the main administration building at FHSU. Sheridan used to be the main gymnasium on campus and now houses the Beach Schmidt auditorium. Jellison Bridge (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2095) is at the left of the image and Picken Hall (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1922) is visible to the right of Sheridan. I was hoping that changing the exposure over South Campus Drive wouldn't be so obvious as it turned out - next time I'll hide it in the trees. |
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I missed the best light while shooting other Gigapans, but even in less than optimal light this was a striking scene. |
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Saint Joseph's Church is one of the Volga German churches in small towns near Hays, Kansas (http://www.volgagerman.net/Liebenthal_ks.htm). Shot from the same vantage point as a wider angle, but lower resolution view of Liebenthal (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2390). |
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View towards the intersection of College and Gustad Drives, Fort Hays State University.
It took a bit of patience to capture this one because this is a surprisingly busy intersection at this time of day. Nonetheless, it was a beautiful spring evening, and it was worth shooting at full zoom because there are lots of little details worth discovering. |
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A little lower down the Kansas stratigraphic section than I usually frequent. |
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A more detailed view of http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2588 . Unfortunately this stitch kind of butchered most of the wind turbines. |
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I failed to fix the focus on this one and the stitch suffers because of it, particularly up by the cupola. |
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This view is toward Wilson Lake from Kansas 232, north of Wilson, Kansas. The knob on the right side of the image is an erosional remnant of Cretaceous aged Dakota Sandstone. Good large-scale bedding features are visible on zooming. |
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Central section of the long roadcut on KS-183 north of the Saline River Valley. This cut exposes an almost complete section through the Fort Hays Limestone member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation. These chalk beds were laid down at the bottom of the shallow tropical Western Interior Seaway. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated and reworked storm deposits. Individual beds are traceable for many miles. Shaly interbeds reflect deeper water depositional conditions. |
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Long roadcut throught the Fort Hays Limestone (chalk) on KS-183 just south of Stockton, Kansas. The city of Stockton can be seen in the distance on the right side of the image. A detail of this image is at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2859 . Another detail of the fault near the top of this section is at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2166 . |