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Cosmic Tree of Life 2.0, 546 million pixels, 32,400 x 16,872 x 300 dpi; a work in progress begun in 2002
Ferragallo used QFX digital tools drawing inspiration from science, astronomy and cosmology to present a cosmic art for a new age. |
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View into the canyon from Kaibab trail. Look for the Colorado River at the bottom, and part of Phantom Ranch on the right. |
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One of my first attempts at panoramas |
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This is the view from Inspiration point (or rather a few yards to the north), on a day with pretty rapidly changing lighting conditions. The trail from Jenny Lake to Hidden Falls was trecherous and covered with 2 feet of snow packed down by countless visitors' feet into a hard, slippery crust. But past the waterfall the trail gets direct sunlight and was mostly clear.
Note the nursing baby moose and mother at the left. When we came up we found folks looking at the baby off in the distance, and while I was taking this panorama the mother returned. She watched from about 10 feet away from the calf for a while, then the calf recognized her and stood up and nursed. Finally they both lay down together. I thought all the boldfaced warnings at the parking lot, etc., about not getting too close to wildlife were obvious and overhyped, but sure enough, while waiting for the pan to complete I watched one group of hikers act like they were going to walk right up to the moose. Fortunately, they were responsive when I suggested that might not be such a good idea. (duh!) |
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La Rosa dei Banchi (3164m), situata sullo spartiacque tra la Valle d'Aosta ed il Piemonte alle testate della Valle dei Banchi (Champorcher, Valle d'Aosta), della Valle di Campiglia e della Valle di Piamprato (Piemonte). Vista dalla cresta ovest, a poca distanza dalle Colle della Rosa (2957m), il 5 agosto 2007, sul ritorno dalla festa del lago Miserino. ----- http://www.vallesoana.it ----- |
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It's whale season soo if you look carefully you might see one. I have seen a few from this lookout. |
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An unpredictable geyser with big eruptions that can throw water 250 feet in the air some 45 times or so a year. |
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This is the Kalalau GigaPan that I always wanted to take, but the time of day was not the best for photos. I went earlier in the day but it was cloudy so I had no choice. The two people in this GigaPan is Dave, and Janette. My first GigaPan tour customer. It took 29 hours to stitch this GigaPan of Kalalau valley and over 12 hours to upload. Watch out for my next Kalalau Valley. Its going to be taken with better lighting conditions. |
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For a higher resolution view from the same point (albiet somewhat narrower), see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5601
The 0-2 feet of crusty snow on the ground made the hiking tricky the day we took this. (The bald spots behind us were not common.) The snow-covered bank we're sitting on is only a few meters wide, but it appears huge because I let the camera angle go very low (and very high too). The lake, even though it appears quite thin, is about 50-70m wide at this point. The peak visible to the left is either Rockchuck Peak, 11144 feet, or Teewinot, 12325, but I didn't take a GPS fix or have a compass along so I'm going to need to look carefully at the mountains & maps to figure it out. :-( String lake is about 6880 ft. Equipment notes: This is the first pan I've uploaded that was shot using a Canon A650. This is a pretty decent Gigapan camera from what I've seen so far, but it does not fit on the stock bracket. Following advice from Wade Roach, I modified my bracket using a drill and dremel. (Thanks, Wade!) This is a "low resolution" pan, shot at wide angle. I also took a high res pan (i.e., full telephoto) from the same site and am waiting on it to stitch now. I'll update this description with a link to that pan later on. |