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SeaWorld Orlando is one of the eight world class theme parks in Central Florida. Of all the parks, this is one of my favorites for a fun relaxing day in a beautifully landscaped area with all sorts of neat sea animal exhibits and shows. It also features a couple adrenaline rides like the coaster Kraken and the Journey to Atlantis water ride. The free beer samples at the Annhauser-Busch Hospitality House doesn't hurt either. This area is part of the recently renovated Sky Tower area. The Sky Tower goes up something like 50 stories and rises out of the building that is the closest in the foreground. Later on I will try to get a picture of it, but didn't have time on this visit. Across the water you can see the Atlantis Bayside Stadium while most prominent are the shops and restauraunts which make up the 'Waterfront at SeaWorld' area. |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 3
Powell's books is a favorite book chain in Portland, Oregon. This store is located on the east side of the Willamete river in Portland, Oregon. I took this photo using a Canon G9, conversion lens adapter, and a Canon Tele-converter TC-DC58C 2x on a Gigapan beta robot. (35 mm film equivalent focal length of 400 mm ) It took 288 jpegs at ISO 400, f4.8. I stitched the resulting image using the Gigapan stitcher 4.3864. I wanted to repeat this panorama with focus on the closer objects and merge the two panoramas, but I would have interfered too much with the employees ability to get their job done. I will fuse focus from two series of photos with different focus on a subject later and I will post both the fused focus and single focus so that you may compare them. |
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Another view of my favorite surplus store. Canon G10 with 1.54X telephoto adapter. 3 second GigaPan delay. |
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St. Augustine, billed as America's first city due to the fact that it was the site of the first permanent European settlement on the continent is a beautiful, historic old town. Along Saint George St. you will find the oldest wooden school house on the continent and many other old structures along with plenty of shopping. Most of the buildings along the street are not the original buildings, but refurbished or rebuilt structures built on the original foundations. The area is a popular tourist destination. This shot was taken the day after Thanksgiving, 2008. |
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Henry Chapman Mercer, an archaeologist, collector, and tile-maker, designed and built this six-story reinforced concrete structure to house his collection of tools and other everyday artifacts from pre-industrial America. Mercer chose concrete to protect his collection from fire; it is used in every aspect of the building's construction, right down to the window muntins. Completed in 1916, the museum today contains over 50,000 items and is open to the public.
This interior view portrays the grand scale of his unique building and collection: even the roof of this central chamber is used to store artifacts. http://www.mercermuseum.org/ NOTE: For optimal viewing, see this panorama in Google Earth, which minimizes the geometric distortion in the panoramic image. |
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A 180-degree view of Empire Music's (http://www.empiremusiconline.com/) acoustic guitar room.
This panorama was created from 315 photos (21x15). Many thanks to store owner Joe Ravita for allowing me to take this panorama. |
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Looking North on Chicago's Michigan Avenue commercial shopping district, otherwise known as The Magnificent Mile |
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The home for everything strange, cheap and potentially useful, Ax-Man is a shopper's dream. Thanks to the fine folks there for permission to photograph. http://www.ax-man.com/
Canon G10 with 1.54X Raynox accessory lens gives an effective 219mm focal length. 6/10 sec. exposure; 3 second GigaPan delay. |
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A portion of the local creative reuse center: The Scrap Exchange. |
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This is the dry-cleaning store I am currently employed at. I won't give away its specific name or location-- but it's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This specific store was once (a few months ago) privately owned by a Korean seamstress and her two children. It started losing money, or maybe it never made any money, and so after seven years, they decided to sell. The store was bought by a dry cleaning chain, kept the previous store owner as the official store seamstress, and hired employees. In fact, they're still hiring... a permanent help wanted sign is placed on the store front. As you may be able to tell, the store is very unpretentious. It's a store for dry cleaning and that's that. It isn't extremely well kept, and the clothes do not get handled with too much care, but other than the occasional lost item or complaining customer, it does alright. |