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This pond is spring feed and holds water all year, almost every year. Consequently it is home to many animals and is visitied by many others. Coyotes like to hunt for groud squirrels here and are often present when people are not around or are quiet. I have even spoted a mountain lion here. A scarlet tananger came by to check me out while I was setting up, apparently drawn by the sort of chipring sound that my motors made. But this was early afternoon on a 100 degree day so all of the other beasts hide from this, and I was largely alone except for dragonflys. |
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This was a test -- my first use of the gigapan beta hardware and software. The subject is a pond in the community where I live -- Westgate of Lincolnshire, IL. I particularly like the way the sky turned out, as well as the reflections in the pond. The camera was a Canon PowerShot SD800 IS, and 65 photos were taken (5 rows, 13 columns). After minimal cropping in Photoshop CS3 the size is 27115 x 7457 pixels. |
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This is the second Gigapan I have created. |
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Pittsburgh's West Park on the North Side. JASMINE GEHRIS/TRIBUNE-REVIEW |
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Taken on a cold October afternoon (10/17/09) overlooking Turtle Pond from a Belvedere Castle overlook, this is one of the largest GigaPans I've taken yet. Almost 1150 images large, this took an entire afternoon to stitch using the newest GigaPan software (version 1.0). Note the top of the castle spire -- those are the instruments which record the official New York City weather. I'm sure this GigaPan would look better on a sunny day -- but there was something very nice about the windy autumn day that I think is well captured in this photograph. Also, the water is stripped in this image because the wind was really swirling and blowing the water around in all sorts of directions.
When it was built, the view from Belvedere Castle provided a vista over the rectangular receiving reservoir, which has been replaced by the Great Lawn, an oval of turf with eight baseball diamonds, loosely defined by plantings of trees in clumps in the manner of the English landscape garden, and, at the foot of Vista Rock, the Turtle Pond, redesigned in 1997 as a naturalistic planting, in which no single vantage-point reveals the water's full extent. Sunken concrete shelving at varying depths provide ideal water depths for shoreline plants such as lizard's tail, bullrush, turtlehead, and blueflag iris. The success of habitat for birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles is embodied in sightings of species of dragon-fly not previously sighted in Central Park. My Homepage: http://www.michaelhussey.com |
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This is Walden Pond taken from the center of the pond. Though the pond was frozen over, I was too timid to get far enough out to so that the site of Thoreau's cabin would be in the shot. I went just a little past the ice fisher. I figured it was reasonably safe to go where he'd been. |
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For a full 360VR view see http://www.3dpan.org/41864
For more GigaPans of Maine see http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/?q=brianlr+maine |
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This is a pond in Coonskin Park in Charleston, WV. Officially named Herscher Lake, but generally referred to as the Duck Pond (by everyone I know, at least), even though it looks like the geese now far outnumber the ducks. Along with a nice paved path around the 2.5 acre pond, the area features a nice playground, miniature golf, pedal boats (in summer), a skateboard park, and free fishing. For more info about the pond and Coonskin in general, see: http://www.kcprc.com/coonskin.html |
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Salt Ponds - some of the individual images are not in focus :-(
The sign reads "absolutely no smoking and alcoholic beverages, no food and eating in the salt making area". I've been listing to kkcr.org streaming on the web since I got back (when I'm not listening to somafm), and periodically they have the surf report for the salt pond, and I think 'he he, I've been there.' Travel is good. (197mm equivalent) |
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At the end of the Lenape trail near High School North on Edgemere Avenue. |