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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica.
This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded by total darkness, unless we happen to be graced by a beautiful aurora! I was lucky enough to catch this nice aurora along with the moon. The moon is so bright down here that it mutes out the sky, making shots of stars quite difficult. I have to move very fast while taking photos down here as my batteries freeze quite quickly and even my tripod freezes and no longer will rotate... Normally I keep a headlamp with me, but this time I had forgotten it while in a rush to capture the dissipating aurora, so had to shoot with whatever I had last set the camera at, and had to hope i didn't bump the rings since i wouldn't be able to see to change anything. Unfortunately while walking out to this point to take the photos I bumped the focal ring on the lens and ever so slightly causing the pictures to bit out of focus, but the pano was so beautiful I couldn't just toss it. These images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II at 16mm, f-stop 2.8 for 30 second exposures. *edit: You can see each of the constellations drawn in over the skyline here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=31101 |
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This gigapan is 18 images high and 22 images wide, a total of 396 images that took over 10 hours for the GigaPan Stitcher to stitch (not very well I might add). "Blueprints" at Addison Circle is located in Addison Circle at Quorum Drive and Addison Circle Drive. Located in Addison Circle, this unique four-story sculpture offers a vision of Addison's past, present and future. A vase-like structure containing poles that reach out over the street are topped with five floating art panels, each a blueprint tracery of a phase in the town's development. - Stands 45 feet high and 140 feet across. - Blueprints art piece weighs 410,000 pounds, each pole weighs 9,000 pounds. It took more than 650-gallons of custom-mixed, Sherwin Williams "Sharpie Blue" paint for the piece. - Artists: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Mel Chin. Van Valkenburgh is a professor in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Chin is an artist, originally from Houston, now living in Burnsville, North Carolina and has been an artist in residence at University of Georgia and Stanford University. - Grand "Unveiling" event: April 13, 2000 - Total cost for the sculpture is 2.1 million dollars For more info go to - http://www.addisontexas.net/what_to_do/Attractions/blueprints.asp |
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This picture was taken as part of a promotion for Sky Movies Action Season.
The shooting location was on the roof of the IET building near Waterloo Bridge in London with a spectacular view over the river Thames towars the southbank. There are a number of Sky Movies and action character related changes within the picture. Some were really there, while others had been added in post production. Enjoy the hunt for Bruce Willis and his colleagues. Additional details can be found at the Sky movies website (http://movies.sky.com/panoramic-picture) and at my own blog (http://www.mikehellers.com/blog). |
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Taken 7 Km out of Sassari, that's visible at the horizon. |
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Dubai caught in the early morning fog.
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This picture was done on top of the Praimar Natal Hotel & Convention, in Natal city on Northeast from Brazil. |
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Panorama centered straight up from the corner of Buci and Seine in Ste-Germain-des-Pres, Paris. |
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This is another Panorama of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. This one was taken technically on the 29th, the day after my previous similar shot. Though just barely, this shot was taken at 1 am.
This photo is however, very different. The moon is in front of the station in this shot rather than behind it, which makes the station look completely different. My other shot makes the station look very dark (which it is to provide heating through absorption of the sun's rays), whereas this one is very light, and almost all white. During the winter, the blowing snow sticks to the station making everything turn white. During the summer season it will not be cold enough to stick, and the sun is there to heat the special black siding also keeping the snow away. I Intentionally left the moon split between the pano, because I liked the effect . Unlike my other Pano, this one I remembered to bring my headlamp and make sure everything on the camera was set correctly, and thus this shot is actually in focus! You can clearly see the station details. This was again taken in temps around -90F. I've had multiple 360 pano attempts fail because the camera's batteries froze before i got spun all the way around :{ This was shot with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 16mm, f-stop 2.8 and 30 second exposures |
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Back to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/countingphotons/4107962241/ |
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Arizona Sky Village is a dark-sky community of amateur astronomers. Located at the base of Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona, the area offers some of the darkest skies in the United States.
For a 360-degree panorama, see: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34810/ |