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David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Houston,
United States of America
Gigapans: 272
Snapshots: 2123
Bookmarks: 31
Last Visited: November 20, 2009
Tags:
Trainer,
GigaPan
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GigaPan Trainer and Gigapanographer:
TexasGigaPanographer@gmail.com
P.O. Box 1222
Bellaire, TX
77402-1222
RECENT NEWS: Check out this link to creative ideas at GigaPanSystems website: http://gigapansystems.com/support/creative-ideas.html
Welcome to my GigaPan Home Page. If you are unfamiliar with the GigaPan process, please visit the following and watch these short videos:
http://gigapansystems.com/youtube-video-tutorials.html
For the history buff that may be interested in a walking tour of a very historic city [Bath, England] via GigaPan images, a visit to this link may be very exciting:
http://www.gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=40892.
For those that desire to see my entire collection of Rice University panoramas and GigaPans, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity
And to see panoramas of students, staff and visitors on the campus of Rice University, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-People
To see *portraits* taken at the Beer Bike Parade, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-BeerBikeParade
And to see panoramas of the Engineering Quad on the campus of Rice University, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-EngineeringQuad
And to see panoramas of the Academic Quad on the campus of Rice University, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-AcademicQuad
And to see panoramas pertaining to Reckling Park and Cameron Field, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-Baseball
And to see panoramsa pertaining to Rice Stadium, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-Football
To see my series of panoramas showing Lakes on Post Oak, click: http://tinyurl.com/LakesOnPostOak
To see my series of panoramas showing the Hermann Park Japanese Garden, click: http://tinyurl.com/Houston-JapaneseGarden
For those that desire to see my entire collection of the Redline MetroRail train series, click: http://tinyurl.com/HoustonMetroRail-Redline
For those that desire to see my entire collection of the Astrodome Statue series, click: http://tinyurl.com/AstrodomeStatues
Note: To see all the GigaPans taken on the campus of Rice University that can be seen in Google Earth, on the gigapan.org home page click on the link, *Browse Panoramas in Google Earth*, and that will d/l a file to your computer, gigapan.kml, which, when opened, will bring up Google Earth and all of the GigaPan locations will be shown. Fly to 77030 and move across South Main from the Texas Medical Center and there they all are.
david.engle@gmail.com
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Nikon D-70 & 70-200mm f/2.8 |
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Nikon D-70 & Various Portrait Lenses |
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Love and Respect Yer Roommate - a Costume Party - Scene One
Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Tags:
riceu,
council,
ricew,
program,
rpc,
rice,
university,
screwyourroommate,
charlene,
katie
Size: 0.32 gigapixels
Added: September 29, 2009
Total Views: 309
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The entire series can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/y9edrjt
What happens on this annual even is that you spend the school week trying to fix up your roommate with a blind date, and if successful, decide on a clothing theme. Then, come Friday evening, all meet in the Academic Quad to find their date based on the clothing theme.
Great fun occurs and this one panorama is only a small taste as to what is to follow. There will be several of these panoramas U/L over the next week.
All these photos are 300dpi, so zoom in and have a good time looking around to see what you can find.
This collection of *panoramas* are similiar to the Beer Bike Parade *panoramas*: To see *portraits* taken at the Beer Bike Parade, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-BeerBikeParade .
These 300-dpi photographs were taken with a Nikon D-70 using a Nikkor 28-80 f/3.3-5.6 G lens and those in the second row were stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. As it was close to sunset, most, if not all of the photographs were flash photos (SB-800 flash unit).
The photos were assembled in PhotoShop on an old Mac G5, which was very time consuming, but well-worth the effort.
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Woo Hoo... this is exciting stuff here, which I did not know about until a week ago. The Houston Press is a weekly paper and once a year, there is a special issue containing the *best* of everything that the city of Houston offers up, and this issue states that the most scenic park in all of Houston is this park, Elizabeth Baldwin Park. Name ring a bell? She was the wife of William Marsh Rice (not just any William Marsh Rice, but this William Marsh Rice: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/10339/snapshots/28801/ the founder of Rice Institute). There was a contested will and lots of intrigue between her and William and may be a very interesting read, but this panorama is not about that; rather, it is about this lovely 4.5 acre park having century-old live oaks, which we see in this very special panorama.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Also, I was happy to get this hard-to-find lens. Due to lens quality and low cost, it is very popular, so I celebrated my good fortune by buying a Heliopan UV filter.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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Rebecca: Sally Ride Festival to Med School - Encore!
Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Tags:
d70,
16x1,
rice,
university,
brochstein,
pavillion,
rmc,
herring,
ricew,
hall,
riceu,
rebecca
Size: 0.09 gigapixels
Added: September 27, 2009
Total Views: 455
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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As I walked through Brochstein Pavillion to take a panorama of Herring Hall, guess who I ran into? Right... Rebecca from the Sally Ride GigaPan, http://gigapan.org/gigapans/11021/snapshots/30478/. She was in Brochstein reading and studying and told me that she graduated from Rice in May and has now gone on to Med School, but still studies at Rice.
Anyway, we decided that we would take a panorama and what you see is the first result. The stitch was not perfect, but that is not a problem since she had great fun and I did too. There is another panorama taken of Rebecca today and can be seen at: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/33656/
This hand-held panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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Rebecca: Sally Ride Science Festival to Med School
Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Tags:
rebecca,
ricew,
riceu,
rice,
rmc,
brochstein,
hall,
herring,
d70,
18x1
Size: 0.09 gigapixels
Added: September 27, 2009
Total Views: 530
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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As I walked through Brochstein Pavillion to take a panorama of Herring Hall, guess who I ran into? Right... Rebecca from the Sally Ride GigaPan, http://gigapan.org/gigapans/11021/snapshots/30478/. She was in Brochstein reading and studying and told me that she graduated from Rice in May and has now gone on to Med School, but still studies at Rice.
Anyway, we decided that we would take a panorama and what you see is the first result. The stitch was not perfect, but that is not a problem since she had great fun and I did too. There is another panorama taken of Rebecca today and can be seen at: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33657/
This hand-held panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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The bridge connects physical space between the University and Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital and a retirerment community.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by a Nikon D70 with a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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When looking toward Hinton Center, one cannot fail to see eight granite columns, which are from the Galveston County Courthouse and date from the Hurricane of 1900 where people survived by being sheltered by these columns.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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Wanted to test a new camera lens, so I drove over to HBU, parked, walked a few feet and BOOM! Found a vista to take a panorama of.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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After viewing a few items in the museum area of the Morris Center, I walked out of the north door and was presented with this vista, which I quickly took a panorama of. The museum area was so incredible, I will return this week to see more of the museum and also, if I can find more views as striking as this one.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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A Special Day For Alicia - Donald, a Rice Photographer and a by a TexasGigaPanographer - a 360-Degree Panorama
Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Tags:
d70,
24x1,
rice,
riceu,
ricew,
university,
granite,
keck,
hall
Size: 0.09 gigapixels
Added: September 24, 2009
Total Views: 409
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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Since this was Wednesday, this must have been taken on the campus of Rice University (I had just been to Fondren Library), and had my new camera lens with me and wanted to test taking a 360 with it and even though there were too many clouds; well, it was only to be a test. As I approached the center of the Engineering Quad, a student walked by and I asked her if she wanted to be in this GigaPan, but she was on the way to class. She recognized me as I had taken portraits of her at a campus costume party a few days before (soon to be uploaded to gigapan.org).
As she was leaving, Alicia came up to me and asked if I was Donald. It seems that she had won an employee award and was going to have her photo taken by the Engineering Department photographer whose name was Donald. To make a long story very short, in this GigaPan, we see Donald taking a few snaps of Alicia.
In this panorama, we see the three famous slabs of granite (http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity-EngineeringQuad), Keck Hall (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/8855/) and Duncan Hall (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/9622/).
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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Houston Baptist University: Jody By the Stanley Williams Fountain 3/3 - a 360-Degree Panorama
Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
Tags:
jody,
fountain,
williams,
university,
baptist,
houston,
dle,
24x1,
d70,
texas
Size: 0.10 gigapixels
Added: September 23, 2009
Total Views: 191
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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I travelled to HBU looking for a few panoramas and what I discovered was a number of panoramas, a very interesting building with three museums, one of which has my attention, and Jody, a staff member on the beautiful campus of Houston Baptist University.
This hand-held 360-panorama was taken by my trusty Nikon D70 with a new lens, the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.
A link concerning this beautiful fountain: http://www.hbu.edu/hbu/The_Williams_Fountain.asp
Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).
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