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Paul Heckbert (paulheckbert)
Edgewood, PA,
United States of America
Gigapans: 48
Snapshots: 564
Bookmarks: 11
Last Visited: March 19, 2010
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Software Engineer at GigaPan since 2009. Background in Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Have been mosaicing images with a computer off and on since 1989.
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This gigapan nearly matches the perspective of another, shot from a bit down the hill in 1897: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/39820/
See if you can identify buildings in this photo that were present in 1897.
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a week after the big snowstorm
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The Flotsam Trail extends from Duck Hollow, a small neighborhood of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, about one mile upstream to near Carrie Furnace in Rankin. The trail runs close to the riverbank through a quiet, wooded strip of land that is near-unique within the city of Pittsburgh, in that it follows the river yet there's no road nearby.
The spot from which this photo was taken was underwater in the flood of January 26, and one and a half weeks later it was hit by 48cm (19in) of snow. The snow seems to have downed more trees than the flood.
This is almost a 360 degree panorama.
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on the ledge outside our window, temperatures about -13C
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This is Downtown Pittsburgh, the Monongahela River, and Southside as seen from what is now called McArdle Roadway, on the slopes of Mt. Washington.
I'm not sure of the year this photograph was taken. Perhaps 1929? If you know, please email me.
At left is the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LERR) station, which later became Station Square and the Grand Concourse restaurant.
This photograph was provided by Miriam Meislik and Ed Galloway of the Archives Service Center, University Library, University of Pittsburgh. http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/archives/archives.html
A project by Dror Yaron, Randy Sargent, and Paul Heckbert hopes to re-photograph this scene from the same viewpoint for a before-after comparison. Click on "View in Google Earth" link to compare a more modern view!
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R.W. Johnston took this picture of Pittsburgh Civic Center (now known as Oakland's Schenley Plaza) in 1927, apparently on August 24. From left to right, it shows Forbes Field, Hotel Schenley (now known as the William Pitt Union), Soldier's Memorial (now known as Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum), the future site of the Cathedral of Learning, the Carnegie Institute (now known as the Carnegie Library and Carnegie Museum of Natural History), and Carnegie Tech (now known as Carnegie Mellon University). The Carnegie buildings were dark with coal ash back then!
Most of the buildings that now make up the University of Pittsburgh were built after this picture was taken, so in addition to the Cathedral of Learning, we also don't see Posvar Hall, Hillman Library, Heinz Chapel, or Dippy the Dinosaur.
This photograph was provided by Miriam Meislik and Ed Galloway of the Archives Service Center, University Library, University of Pittsburgh. http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/archives/archives.html
A project by Dror Yaron, Randy Sargent, and Paul Heckbert hopes to re-photograph this scene from the same viewpoint for a before-after comparison. Click on "View in Google Earth" link to compare a more modern view!
More panoramic photos by R. W. Johnston: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/39820/ ,
http://www.hellopittsburgh.com/Photos_Panoramic.Cfm
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This was a scouting mission to find the location from which a panoramic photograph of Homestead Steel Works was shot in 1910. That photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/pheckbert/Homestead#5427949312697809954.
In 1910, Carrie Furnace was making pig iron and Homestead Works was rolling it into steel sheets and beams. Today, Carrie Furnace is derelict, and Homestead Works has been replaced by the Waterfront Mall and condos!
Also, there are a lot more trees (blocking this view, unfortunately) on the hillsides now. It would be nice to rephotograph this under better lighting conditions, and find a way to remove the trees from the picture (without cutting any).
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From the bottom of the Revelation Bowl on the back side of Telluride ski area, late afternoon, near closing time.
Sorry about the gap on the left. I'll have to go back and reshoot :-)
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