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While on my usual expedition to Fondren Library, I met these two incredible ladies in Brochstein and spent a *most* enjoyable time showing them the sights around the campus and moments before we parted, we took this GigaPan of a very special moment-in-time on this wonderful day. And the view in Google Earth via the link is spectacular :) In the second frame, Christina moved too fast for the camera shutter ... maybe it too was mesmerized by this scene un-folding before us:) After the above GigaPan was taken, of all people, who do you think showed up? Right, Deian who many remember from this spectacular GigaPan taken last September: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9620&snapshot_id=26838. NOTE: the missing frame of Jodi and Christina can be seen in this GigaPan: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=2c6c1e53ff90e5bfd37b187f88e93eeb |
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Martin Luther King Day, 2009, a day before the Inauguration of Barack Obama, an extraordinary day unlike any other Inauguration Day ever experienced in these United States.
It is interesting to note that United States President, Barack Obama and Rice President, David Leebron, have both been Editors of the Harvard Law Review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review |
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Herzstein Hall, Lovett Hall & Sewall Hall
To my eye, this is one of the most incredible vistas that I have taken with a GigaPan robot, and as anyone can see who follows my GigaPan effort, this is not the first view we see of the Academic Quad, nor will it be the last. Nineteen days of hard work required for this the 96th Commencement of Rice University. http://students.rice.edu/students/Commencement.asp |
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A number of snapshots have been added to this pano, which is more indicative of what we are seeing than a general description here.
Another interesting pano with strong perspective can be seen here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=8669. Both of these views in Google Earth are most interesting to observe. |
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After I took http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12462, I went back home to take care of a number of errands and to grab some good batteries and back off to Rice in the afternoon. As I set up at the corner of Lovett Hall and Herzstein Hall, the physics building, all the little girls and their parents and teachers were going back to their cars and then, I meet Liz, who was returning to her college after spending the day with all this young kids at an engineering fair. I must say that the experience of meeting Liz was most unexpected... one minute I was wondering what was going to happen today, and the next minute... boom, she was there and was most cooperative. After spending only a few minutes with Liz, I know that the kids really loved her. She is a special lady. |
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Both of the girls enjoyed this and I did too. They picked the pose themselves, which is always cool.
I believe that I had the Leica set properly on exposure lock, but as you can see, there are some hot spots in the sky... so much so that a great amount of the pano was eliminated as unacceptable.. leaving only the the good part. The original plan was to start at the top of Willy and continue to sweep to the current right side. I will try this later and later in the afternoon to capture the colors that are so beautiful. |
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The two earlier GigaPans of Emma, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23013, and of Jennifer, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23002, were extracted from this because the first attempt to stitch a 360-degree panorama of the Academic Quad failed. Because of some help from the GigaPan community, the files were restitched and this is the result. Note: The snapshots that I have created have a link that will take you to a memorable GigaPan, which was taken this past school year... lots of wonderful memories. The view in Google Earth is pretty exciting, but remember, I am biased :) |
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Update: The actual 360-degree GigaPan has been successfully stitched and can be seen here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23597.
On this special day before Commencement, Jennifer, with the support of her friends, endures sunlight to have a GigaPan taken of her achievement. We also see Rebecca and Erin as they are walking across the Academic Quad. This was intended to be a 360 panorama, but encountered some sort of stitching problem, which forced me to make two GigaPans from the 360. The other, Emma and Willy in the Academic Quad, can be seen here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23013 This GigaPan clearly demonstrates why, when taking a GigaPan(s), I desire blue sky so much. Note: The GigaPan had to be taken when it was taken... *sadly* the clouds gave the initial exposure reading a most difficult time, but all-in-all, considering the circumstances, I would hope that you consider this to be breath-taking :) If I had waited later or earlier, then we would have never seen the special people that we see in these two GigaPans. |
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I bought a new Nikkor lens yesterday and today was the first attempt to use the 35mm f/1.8.
Upon entering the Academic Quad, I could see that in a few moments, after the Sun cleared a cloud, I would have some good sunlight and I saw Lisa and asked if she wanted to participate in this experimental panorama. I hoped that it would be a 360-degree panorama, but things don't always happen the way you wish that they would and so, we almost had a 360 had it not been for user error. As you can readily see, the panorama was taken during the student go slowly from one class to another, so there are many faces in the crowd that are recognizable to those that may know them. Again, this was taken hand-held with a Nikon D70 camera and a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional information can be seen upon clicking Stitcher Notes. Also,I was happy to get this rare lens. Due to lens quality, it is very popular, so I celebrated my good fortune by buying a Heliopan UV filter. You may enjoy the view in Google Earth via the link, View in Google Earth. |
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This, again, is of the Academic Quad at Rice University and was taken prior to the GigaPan of Angela, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23497, and was stitched with the same stitcher version as was http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23597 , but with different results. |