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The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery is guarded by a member of the Tomb Honor Guard, a group of specially trained soldiers from the 3rd United States Infantry (The Old Guard). The Tomb contains the remains of unkown American soldiers from WWI, WWII, The Korean Conflict and (until 1988) the Vietnam war. |
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more from the junkyard
see also: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10440 http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10490 |
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Old city of China, near Shanghai, with channels (like Venice). A few scenes of the movie "Impossible Mission III" was shot there. |
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Ueber 700 Jahre altes Wahrzeichen der Stadt Meersburg am Bodensee |
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I made several panoramas in galleries of Le Louvre Museum in Paris on May 28th, 2009. All were handheld sequences stitched with the Gigapan stitcher. This is the third to be uploaded. |
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360 degree pan of my kitchen. |
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Stanford University
White Plaza in front of Old Union Complex © 2009 Mike Mu All Rights Reserved |
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When I shot this panorama I was trying to a locate any familiar landmark to guide me back to my hotel in Helsinki. Alas for my hurried state, for many hours I found nothing to orient me to my starting point, but to my delight and to the fortification of my panorama portfolio, I discovered this interesting corner and several other unsought panorama projects.
For this photograph, the painted French street scene first caught my eye, and then I saw the building behind it with those four human figures. What a nice background for my French Facade! Great. I had discovered a 12-shot pano, 4 high 3 wide. But then I turned to the right, and seeing what you see here, I decided to try this 64-shot panorama, which is about at the limit of my stitcher's ability when I feed it a hand-held, multi-level, wide-light-range panorama. The building in the foreground, according to my post-stitch, web-based research, is the Old Student House which was built in 1870 for the Student Union of Helsinki's university. This was during the reign of Russian Tsar Alexander II, and apparently he approved the plan himself. It can be difficult to geocode a panorama that is taken when one's hotel is missing. I knew that I was on Mannerheimintie Street when I shot the pano, and I had the photos of the statues. In the end it was the three blacksmiths that guided me to the correct identity of the Old Student House and the correct place for the panorama on Google Earth. I hope that you enjoy this effort. If there is a lesson to be learned from the experience, it could be that not all who are lost wander - some stop to take photographs. The 64 images of this panorama were captured with a hand-held Nikon D-80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. Please take a few moments to wander around a bit. |
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Taken at the height of fall color, this Gigapan captures an old-growth grove of maple, red oak, ironwood, butternut, elm, and basswood trees in Wolsfeld Woods, a Scientific and Natural Area managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The 200-acre site west of Minneapolis near the town of Long Lake is one of few remnants of the "Bog Woods" ecosystem, which historically ran in a swath from southeastern Minnesota toward the northwest. The lack of vegetatoin on the forest floor is due to the dense canopy overhead. |
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St Patroclus's Cathedral and
St.-Petri-Church in Soest - Germany St Patroclus's Cathedral In 960, Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne transferred St Patroclus's relics from Troyes and buried them in 964 at St Patroclus's Cathedral in Soest, where he is still today venerated. The Cathedral is a beautiful example of early medieval "Romanesque" architecture fashioned from the local greenish sandstone. Its massive squared bell tower or steeple can be seen for many kilometers, rising up out of the city centre of the old city and a landmark of the Soester Boerde. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Petrikirche_(Soest) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soest,_Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patroclus_of_Troyes |