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The weather for the day of this pano was supposed to "heavy rain", so it was a big surprise to find myself in a quiet field with this spectacular view and wonderful weather.
In fact, I would go so far as to say it was an uplifting experience. Later on I slipped and ended up falling completely flat into six inches of liquid mud, and my reaction was to lie there and laugh out loud. See http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10384 for an alternative view. This shot was taken was taken from here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25860&snapshot_id=78552. Bath is on the other side of the big hill on the horizon. The place I took this gigapan is just over the hill from here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9802&snapshot_id=28947. If you look carefully you can see the radio masts are the same in both panos. |
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Glorious contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Totterdown: This multi-coloured terrace of houses is the visual signal that one has arrived in Bristol for everyone arriving from the south by train.
For an alternative fun view of the same buildings, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21997&snapshot_id=67290.
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Bristol city centre from the docks. For a view of the same scene during a festival, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29552. | |||
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A Surprising Castle contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Where Are We Now Relative to Bristol Temple Meads?: .
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A view of Bristol not seen by many. For a close up of the construction site in this shot see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21618.
For a view from the other side of the station, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21992. Or see Newcastle's station here: http://tinyurl.com/m4g7tv. Images taken with kind permission of FirstGroup. |
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Bristol Temple Meads: Platform Three North contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Another View of Totterdown: Looks like: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21992&snapshot_id=67283
I never saw this because the times I was in Bristol, it was dark (early morning or late evening) as I was returning to Bath from day-tripping.
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Another experiment with the "900mm" lens.
The interesting question here is "Where was I standing when I took this shot?". I honestly can't remember. I can tell you that the obvious answer viz "Stood on a chair in the middle of the railway tracks" is *not* correct. Bit of a puzzler, that. For more images from this location, search on "temple meads" |
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Temple Meads VII contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: I Love These Houses: Search on "Totterdown" to see them from far and wide.
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For a view from outside the station see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21620.
Images taken with kind permission of FirstGroup. |
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Bristol Temple Meads: Platform Twelve South contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Totterdown: These brightly-coloured buildings in Totterdown are of sentimental significance to me. I had many happy times in Bristol, and on arriving on the train in Bristol, these buildings always said 'You have arrived!'
The owners of these houses have a sensational view: http://tinyurl.com/lwrx5m.
Totterdown is also interesting because it has an annual event where the local artists (and there are many in this area of town) throw open their doors to the public for a weekend. You can wander around the streets and pop into artists' homes to see their paintings, sculptures or even performances.
You can also see these buildings from afar in http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10381&snapshot_id=28943.
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A shot on an overcast day of Bristol floating harbour, looking down on The SS Great Britain (The first iron hulled, screw propellor driven liner) designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Next to it is the Matthew, a replica of the ship in which John Cabot sailed on his discovery of North America in 1497. The harbour is called the "floating harbour" because the river here is tidal and the water is held in by locks. I forgot to set this to save as a tiff so that I could make adjustments and it took so long to stitch that it will have to wait. This shot is 600 superfine, large JPEGs and took 15 hours to stitch. I seem to be getting better and working at the lowest iso rating with no image stabilisation has greatly improved the definition. A shot twice as wide, taking in much more of the harbour, is in the offing when we get the next sunny day!! Here is the first attempt http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27418 | |||
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GP11 SS Great Britain and Bristol Floating Harbour contains 2 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Totterdown: This snapshot is the same as what we see in this conversation (taken from Temple MeadsVII, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23553) http://www.gigapan.org/viewConversation.php?id=71368
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I have been trying to get this shot for a long time. There is a row of brightly coloured terraced houses in Bristol that I am very fond of. They can be seen from all over Bristol eg http://tinyurl.com/mh7jlk. I now know that this is Richmond Street and it is the rear of the properties that one can see. I figured that since the relation "can be seen from" is symmetric, there must be a cracking view from those houses but on investigation I found that there was nowhere public to stand to take the shot. As I was wandering up and down the front of Richmond Street I noticed that some of the houses had been knocked through so you could see through the house from front to back. You could get an idea of what the view must be like and it was, like, really good. So I hesitantly knocked on the door of one of the houses and asked the owners if they would consider letting me take a gigapan from their house. I am lucky enough to have good references and after writing to them explaining the ideas behind gigapans and citing my references they very kindly agreed to let me into their home.
On the day of the shoot the weather was perfect with only a little haze and this is this result. It has jumped to the top of my list of favourite gigapans overnight. This shot is taken with the H7 + teleconverter. This combination is right on the limit of what the gigapan imager can cope with because the field-of-view is less than 2ยบ, so I took another shot using the 400D. You can see that here http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30743. |
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Clifton Suspension Bridge.
The mini-panorama in the bottom left corner is a hand-held mosaic by cmlbath (http://www.gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=7367). It is too small to upload as a gigapan so I have included it here. (Without permission - sue me!). It shows the view from http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25811&snapshot_id=78768, looking back up the gorge to toward the bridge. Very roughly geocoded for now. For earlier images from this location see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25860. For a view of the bridge from the other side see http://tinyurl.com/npak7w. |
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Focus on Clifton III contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Crazy colours: Houses painted different colours.
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This whopping 9Gp super gigglepan of 648 individual shots was taken with the Epic 100 on top of a 6m lighting stand. This was necessary to see over the castellations round the 15m wide top of the tower. The castellations are 3m high. Taken on Canon SX1 IS 648 shots 22nd sept 2009 See also www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27492 www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29552 See the Wills Memorial Tower which this was taken from, from below at http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/31606/
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GP58 360 degree shot from top of Wills Tower of Bristol University contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Coloured Houses: Totterdown
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A smaller version of http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30369 with a larger field of view using the 400D. |