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This is the view from Crook Peak in the Mendips, looking across to Weston-super-Mare. As ever, wide fov images like this look best in GE.
Weston is actually hidden behind a hill and you can only see the outskirts, but capturing Weston was not the goal. The goal was in fact to answer two technical questions: (1) how big can I make a pano? and (2) what is the view like from Crook Peak? The answer to the first question seems to be "at least 2.5Gpix" (I like this number) and to the second "well, it is a bit like this". Sadly this pano has no extraordinary hats like this: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11641. I took a 360° from this viewpoint but sadly it didn't work out. A pity - you can see Glastonbury Tor quite clearly. I am undecided about whether one can see Sand Point (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9016) in this view. I suspect one can't. Will update these comments when I have geocoded this pano more accurately and had a look in GE. |
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The view from the WWII gun emplacement/observation bunker/thingy overlooking the harbour. For a closer view of the harbour including the Gay Archer, see http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=22503. |
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This is my first "real" gigapan, taken on a very cold and windy day using just a tripod - hence the irregular outline. It consists of 196 images, processed in Autopano Pro as a .PSDand then further processed in Photoshop CS3
This pano shows the Severn Estury and western Somerset Levels with Weston-Super-Mare, Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater in the distance, as well as Wales across the water. You can see two Iron Age Hill Forts, two Medieval castles, two nuclear (pronounced new-clear for those who have difficulty) power stations and two countries. If you look closely you can find the West Somerset Vale Fox Hunt. You can also see the receiving point of the first ever radion transmission over open water in May 1897, This was done to disprove the contention that radio did not work and that the signals were passing through the ground. There are many more delights to discover |
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May, 2009
Mysterious and haunting Cranberry Lake is located in a secluded area of Somerset County in southwestern Pennsylvania just off route 653. It is 112 acres and has standing timbers in the water and a small waterfall. There have been many Big Foot sightings in the area. Fishermen come to fish for large mouth bass, hunters have log cabins nearby along a dirt road, but today its most spectacular site is the series of windmills atop Laurel Ridge. Taking this gigapan was a pleasure. No one was there. Not a sound was heard. I took three: one too small, one too dark, and this one, a bit light. Coordinates: N 39 54 286 W 079 22 153 Canon PowerShot G9 40 pictures: 5 rows, 8 columns 375 megapixels (28244 x 13298) Image size: 4000x3000 (12.0 megapixels) |
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At Mile Marker 52 is the Pinkerton High Bridge over the Casselman River in Somerset County, Pennsylvaina. The bridge is one of seven on the Passage through the Allegheny Mountains. It once carried the Western Maryland Railway which was abandoned in 1975. The corridor was transformed to a biking/hiking trail now know as the Great Allegheny Passage, a 153 mile biking/hiking trail from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD. At Cumberland the Passage connects with the C&O Canal trail which leads another 180 miles to Washington, DC. The combination is the longest continuous bike trail in the US. Following the old path of the WMdRwy through the Allegheny Mts of SW Pennsylvania, it is also the most scenic. |
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Shillingstone railway station was a station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Sturminster Newton and Blandford Forum stations on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), although for a while the next station south was Stourpaine and Durweston Halt. A passing place on stretch of single line, the station had two platforms with buildings on the up platform and a simple shelter on the down platform. There was a small goods yard and this and the passing loop were controlled from a signal box at the north end of the up platform.
The station was opened on the 31 August 1863 by the London and South Western Railway as part of the Dorset Central Railway. The station was transferred to the Southern Railway at the Grouping of 1923, becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1947, the station was closed when the S&DJR closed on 7 March 1966.The station was staffed until its closure in March 1966. As at June 2009, 210 feet of the up main through the station was being laid and ballasted in on 113a flat bottom rail and wooden sleepers and Ruston Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel mechanical was scheduled to be moved from the isolated goods dock to the mainline by Antell's low loader, enabling the Long Marston southern green Mark 1 TSO coach to be brought into the dock for restoration. This will be the first standard gauge loco on the S&D mainline south of the mendips since the diesel demolition train departed in July 1967, exactly 42 years before! The south end up platform wall was being rebuilt and picnic area above landscaped by mini digger. Late summer projects include moving 92207 3 panels towards Bath and grading the down loop bed ready for terram weed proof matting and fresh ballast. work will also start on the motor trolley hut enabling the LMS society Wickham to be brought down from North Somerset. The future: Once the project proves itself to the council, an extension north to bridge 182 and south to the infilled gains cross or cliff bridge "rabbit cutting" will be applied for, creating a mile and three quarter railway. The ideal goal would be to have a ten mile S&D from Sturminster Newton new station to Blandford new station. |
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Bellevue City Skyline seen from Somerset Hills.
Light conditions were changing during the taking of the images, leaving stripes of better and poorer illumination. This should be re-shot when better conditions are available. Difficult to get a good alignment for googleEarth as there is hardly any 3d building data for Bellevue to serve as a reference. If someone adds it, I'll reposition this accordingly. |
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