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In honor of Rochester’s 175th Anniversary, the City and the Veterans Outreach Center will present a special Veterans Day Concert featuring the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and special guests under the direction of Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik.
The Veterans Day RPO POPS Spectacular will pay tribute to Rochester’s military veterans by providing area residents an opportunity to enjoy jazz and patriotic-themed music performed by the RPO Pops for just $5 a ticket. The concert will take place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. It will also feature performances by the Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale and trumpeter Byron Stripling. “I cannot think of a better way to celebrate the anniversary of Rochester than by honoring our veterans, especially in a time of war,” said Mayor Duffy. “We are fortunate to have one of America’s greatest orchestras right here in our city to help us mark this celebration with a heart-pounding musical performance.” Photographers Note - This GigaPan was supposed to be a total of 330 pictures, but ended up only being 150 photos because the RPO performance was switching to the Jazz portion of the show, and house lights needed to go down. So as a result of this sections 107 - 111 were not photographed, I am sorry if missed you, but as the saying goes... "The Show Must Go On!" |
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Selkirk Common Riding is a commemoration of the loss of the young men of Selkirk (Scotland) at the Battle Of Flodden on 9th September 1513. Legend has it that only one returned carrying a flag from one of the English armies. The flag casting ceremony held in the town square ends with two minutes silence followed by the playing of "The Floors of the Forest" a lament written for the men lost in the battle. This ceremony is preceded by the Riding of the Marches which is a ride round the town boundaries by the largest cavalcade of horses and riders in Europe (up to 650 riders have been in the cavalcade in past years). The ride is led by the Burgh Standard bearer carrying the town flag. After returning to the town they process behind the bands to the Market Place for this ceremony.
The trouble with getting Gigapan of this ceremony is that the whole event is over in about 20 minutes and so the 800 pics suggested by Gigapan at 550mm would have taken longer than the event to photograph. I compromised by zooming out to around 200mm so as to take fewer snaps in the time and therefor managed to get three gigapans shot. There is a problem with some of the elements which must be due to camera shake as I reduced the time between pictures to .8 sec. My next shots will be landscapes which don't move away after half an hour!! However as a first try I'm not too disappointed. Try http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26053 and http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26062 too. See Video of the ceremony at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPtceF7L9Cs |
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While waiting for the Super Shuttle to pick me up after the last week's Gigapan Fine Outreach for Science workshop in Pittsburgh, I noticed a Peregrine falcon circling the Cathedral of Learning and just couldn't resist. |
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My dia de los muertos box; my first attempt at something quasi-narrative with mixed media in a gigapan. Memorializing anything sentimental in my closet resulted in the overwhelming but neccesarry amount of narcissim that went into this.
Some notes: There are also a few links to my videos and music embedded in the snapshots i've taken which help explain all the items on the wall, if you really want to get a sense for how the items all relate to one another. There's a lot of time-related photography/virtual reality/time items that I like to think give the viewer a sense of evaporating memories and time. There's also two of the same watch that relate to the process and allude to the fact that the photograph is composited from 120 individual photographs taken at different moments, creating an illusion of a precise moment that never actually occurred at all. In the next piece I do like this, I'm going to attempt to elicit the same idea with a drop of water caught in mid-air or a falling glass. |
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The town of Kelso in the Scottish Borders is on the junction of the river Teviot and the River Tweed. The castle in the background is Floors Castle, home of the Duke of Roxburghe. Kelso Abbey on the right is from the 13th century. The junction pool under the bridge is famous for salmon fishing. This bridge which crosses the Tweed, was designed by John Rennie of Haddington. His design is unusual in that it has a level road over semi-elliptical arches. Opened in 1803, the bridge has its Toll House on the town side. This demand for tolls led to the reading of the Riot Act in 1854, when the townspeople, tired of paying for the bridge, whose cost they reckoned had long since been covered, rioted. Later, in 1857, the tolls were removed.
Rennie later designed bridges for London, the Kelso Bridge being the design he used for Waterloo Bridge which was completed in 1817. When the Waterloo Bridge was dismantled in 1937, two of the lamp standards from that bridge were gifted to Kelso and still stand at the far end of the bridge from the town. Kelso Abbey on the right is from the 13th century. The junction pool under the bridge is famous for salmon fishing 220 pictures taken with a Canon SX1 on manual settings see also www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26162 |
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Cold War Aircraft display, at the National Museum of the Air Force (formally the Air Force Museum) at Wright Patterson AFB (WPAFB), in Dayton Ohio.
Summer 2009. Help me identify the planes in this photo. |
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No one does fireworks quite like Boston; this year's was the largest and most complex Boston Fourth of July pyrotechnic display to date. More than 20 thousand pounds of explosives were used for the display, which included the largest shells yet to be used - ten-inch diameter shells climbed to 1500 feet.
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Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest received PennVest money to green 5 parking lots in East Liberty. This shot shows the parking lot as concrete is being dug out in preparation for trees. |