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Full panorama in Davos/Parsenn.
Don't waste our time here, watch it with GoogleEarth and be there. :) |
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No water shortage here. Saguaro Lake is at the 98% full level and boaters love it. All reservoirs on the Salt River are full. Yellow-flowered brittle bush plants cover the ground between the saguaros. After all, this IS a National Forest.
This is my largest pano yet, taken with a Gigapan EPIC and a modified bracket to hold a Canon EOS XTi with a 75-300mm zoom. |
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A very very windy day on top of Baldy Mountain, at 13,300 feet. My friend Ed and I hiked up here so he could fly down on his speed kite, but it was far too windy, blowing at 50mph (it was calm when we left a couple hours before, and from 6000 feet lower...) I had to wedge the tripod into the peak rock pile to keep the gigapan unit from blowing away, then we went and hid from the wind under the snowbank. Taking the glove off momentarily to connect the Gigapan power and the thumb screw on the camera was painful. You cant see the aspect we skied down, it is from the top of the large mound behind us. It was steep and solid, a wonderful backcountry day, although Ed did no flying. The Gigapan unit caught lift at the end of the serious, causing the camera to point to the sky and missing the final four columns. The stitcher still decided to join them but four columns are indeed missing. |
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Lago di Montespluga is a storage lake at the italian side of the Spluegen Pass.
Because of weather and ice it looks like northern fiords. |
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Can you find the chamois?
Findest du die Gämse? |
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Located in the west-central Chilcotin of British Columbia well off the beaten track, Mount Tatlow, el. 10,049 feet is sacred to the local Indians. It was just beginning to freeze over while I was there...the early morning temp. dropped to about -20C. The lake is about 4230 feet above sea level.
Tatlow is known as Tsi'lo?s (sigh-loss, the '?' represents a glottal stop) in the language of the Tsilhqot'in people whose territory is in the area of the lakes and the plateau to their north, and has given its name to Ts'il?os Provincial Park which encompasses this area. Native tradition holds that it is unlucky to point at Tsi'lo?s, or to mention its name in casual speech; adverse weather and worse may result. The Xeni Gwet'in people, who reside in Nemaia Valley near Mt Tatlow, request that NO climbing of it and its neighbouring summits take place, and BC Parks imposes those rules in its land-use guidelines on the area. Big Lake has a healthy population of huge Rainbow Trout up to 15 pounds whose principal diet is an abundance of freshwater shrimp. View the area in high resolution in Google Earth: http://maps.pbase.com/darby2/image/118316519 |
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Blick von Aussichtspunkt bei Hausdorf südlich von Dresden
View from the lookout near Hausdorf south of Dresden |
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View from peak of Grand Morgon : Lake of Serre-Ponçon (Hautes alpes - France) |
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Just as I arrived there was an amazing rainbow over the mountains, but of course the sun disappeared behind the clouds a few minutes before I got the gigapan set up. I waited for 20 more minutes until the sun came out again and then shot this in the 5 minute window before the sun set behind the mountains. The camera was having problems focusing and so the system was missing images. I ended up shooting a 2nd gigapan right after the first and then replacing the blurry and missing images with pics from the 2nd set which didn't have as good light since the sun was going down. Those are the darker patches in the image. This overlook is just up the hill from my house so I might start trying to shoot the same gigapan every few days to work on doing some gigapan timelapse with the images. |
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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. |