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You can find many stores like this in north of Iran. In this store everything can be found: honey, dolls, cookies, chess, etc. This is why I call it "everything-can-be-found" store :)
Note: The location I took this photo may vary a little with the location I geo-coded it, but still in the same area. |
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I took this panorama while it was snowing. It was a real challenge, but with help of my brother (Parham) and my cousins (Pezhman and Bayan) ((by holding my cap over the camera! Not to get wet)) I finally did it. The result is not bad. The interesting story is that it was 11th of Farvardin (the first month of Persian calendar) and it was snowing while there was only one real snow in Tehran during the last winter.
To find out more about Tochal in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochal’ http://www.tochal.org/en/ in Persian: http://www.tochal.org/fa/ http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%84 |
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The North Pole. I suppose that the best way to think of the North Pole is to consider a single point on the sea bed under the Arctic Ocean where all the Earth's lines of longitude converge. It is the one point in the Northern Hemisphere around which our planet turns, and its position now is marked by a titanium flag that was recently placed on the ocean floor by the Russian Federation.
Above the North Pole and that Russian flag we have 4261 meters of salt water and a layer of sea ice that varies in thickness from 1 to 3 meters depending on the time of year and the temperatures of the air above it and the water beneath it. The Arctic ice cap moves relative to the sea floor. The moving ice provides no permanent foundation for a research station of even a camera or a flag. The ice that was on the ocean’s surface above the North Pole when I was there on July 25, 2008 has since moved on to somewhere south. Indeed, this ice had shifted several miles before we left the vicinity of the North Pole later in the day on the 25 of July. Early polar explorers had a difficult time reaching the North Pole in part because of the moving target. The ice could move faster than they could move. Expeditions lasted years as they wandered on the shifting pack ice. The location of the Pole had to be calculated using the height of the sun, and it had to confirmed mathematically many times as the explorers approached 90 degrees North. When explorers stopped for their calculations, the ice still moved them along so that their calculated position would no longer be correct. Our journey took only a few days, and confirmation of our arrival at the North Pole required no sextant or calculator. We arrived at the Pole on an ice breaker, and our position at 90 degrees North Latitude was confirmed by GPS. There is a prediction that global warming will melt the north polar ice during this century. There was even a suggestion that the Pole might thaw this summer, which was not true at the end of July. You can see other panoramas from our Polar expedition on the gigapan.org web site. |
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Ledge trail is a long abandoned trail that runs from the backside of Curry Village up to Glacier Point. About half way up you can cross the creek and climb up the rocks to this spectacular view. At one time power or telephone lines ran up this way, and there are a trio of eyehooks embedded in the rocks, thus my name for this spot, "Eyehook Point". From here you can see down into Yosemite Valley with a panorama that goes from Yosemite Falls to Nevada Fall and everything in between. Royal Arches, Washington Column, North Dome, Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Mt Watkins etc.
Check out the higher rez mid day version of this view at http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10095 Check out http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp608/html/JoelBaldwin.html for a 360/180 spherical panorama from this spot. |
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Although not all are visible here, some 13 tower cranes are at work in Charlotte. This skyline may look dramatically different in a year or so. |
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Very first attempt with the Gigapan imager. |
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Mendocino is a culturally and physically colorful place along the North Coast of California. This private garden is in the front yard of a house tucked in between the galleries and shops along the seafront walk arcross from the Headland Park. |
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Panorama of Coffs Harbour Jetty Beach and Jetty. The Marina with Mutton Bird Island.
The Beach (at low tide), was used as a landing strip for Avro 504 and Bristol Bi-Planes in the 1920's. There seem to be a few faults with the stitching on the horizon of the panorama. Will try to figure out how to correct this in the future....Could it possibly be the software.....? |
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This is the view from our campsite on the second night out on a 7-day trip in the North Cascades. We had a great view of the Picket Range -- the most rugged terrain in all of Washington -- and great weather for all 7 days. Phenomenal trip! |
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The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley, is located beside the A1 Great North Road as it enters Tyneside. Now celebrating its 10th birthday, it is seen by some 90,000 drivers a day! By the way - the wings are in fact straight, and this image may be best seen in Google Earth! |