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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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A very very windy spot and quite a struggle to hold the tripod steady! And perhaps on this occasion a good example of when Anti Shake / IS can work well with a tripod! But near this spot was once a Roman Signal station, and when you see the huge view that encompasses a long stretch of Hadrian's Wall, then it is easy to see what an important point it was. |
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Grytviken means "pot cove" in Norwegian, and this whaling station was named for the sealers' trypots that were found there. The whaling station was established by C. A. Larsen in 1904, and it closed in December of 1962 after the large-scale whaling activity depleted the whale population The remains of the station, the church and some of the original houses are now a museum. Ernest Shackleton, the legendary Antarctic explorer, is buried in the whalers cemetery on the south shore. This panorama was shot from the deck of our ship which was anchored in King Edward Cove. |
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This is the nature reserve's small building where cuttings of various fynbos specimens are placed and labeled regularly. Zoom in for the names! |
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Here you see the South Pole's only sunset of 2009. You are looking towards grid south from the stairs at the end of the A1 wing of the elevated station. The A4 wing is on your right. The arches with the heavy equipment shop, the power plant and the UT and carp shops are directly before you, and the smoke shack is on your far left.
We are enjoying an incredible pastel afternoon as we wait for the sun to disappear below the horizon. The process will take more than a day. Once it has left the sky, the sun will remain absent for a full 6 months, returning on the austral vernal equinox. Have a last look around the place. The South Pole will look a lot different in 3 weeks. The 34 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D 80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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Looking north towards Lake Warner (foreground), Connecticut River, Mount Sugarloaf (South Deerfield) and Sunderland from an apple orchard in Hadley, Massachusetts. |
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South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, USA |
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South Plaza island looking west toward Santa Cruz. There might be land iguanas hidden somewhere in this landscape. |
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Photograph taken at the Lifeguard house at 8th Street in South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, during a Sunday afternoon... the coolest an nicest beach in the world... after Ipanema, of course. |
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This is a 360 degree panorama from the top of a small mountain called "Klein Hangklip" just between two villages: Rooi Els and Pringle Bay. |