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226042x21693px image will make you surprised of the details and the hiden places that could be seen. This is I thing the widest view of the town Kocani where the alomost 70% of the town is visible.
This is the hand made panorama with predicted overlaping. I thought will never complite the result I got. Before last step corrections the pano was between 6-7Gpx, but in order to get the nice composition and quality it was cropped in Photoshop to 5Gpx. At the begining I almost reached the Photoshop limit of 300.000 px. Amazing experiance and result if you exclude the little visible mistakes. And the 30Gb file was uploading for ages. PANORAMA FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TOWN COULD BE SEEN HERE: ПАНОРАМАТА ОД ДРУГАТА СТРАНА НА ГРАДОТ МОЖЕ ДА БИДЕ ВИДЕНА НА СЛЕДНИОВ ЛИНК: (http://gigapan.org/gigapans/30950) Green nature that sarrouns the town, "Brana Gragce" could be seen on folowing link: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33685/ НА ПРЕТХОДНИОТ ЛИНК МОЖЕ ДА СЕ ВИДИ ИЗЛЕТНИЧКОТО МЕСТО "БРАНА ГРАТЧЕ". |
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London at Night, taken from the South Bank Centre. Big Ben and the London Eye can be seen on the left, whilst the Royal Air Force Memorial, crowned by Sir William Reid Dick’s gilt eagle, can be seen in the centre of the GigaPan. There are numerous other hidden details to be discovered here.
Other GigaPans: Olympic Football Stadium http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=8036 Bunny hunt http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3768 The Pub http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3328 The clock http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4280 |
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This 180 degree panorama is taken from the top of Oppenheimer tower in Soweto, a huge township "south and west" of Johannesburg. Soweto has some 7 million inhabitants. |
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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica.
This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded by total darkness, unless we happen to be graced by a beautiful aurora! I was lucky enough to catch this nice aurora along with the moon. The moon is so bright down here that it mutes out the sky, making shots of stars quite difficult. I have to move very fast while taking photos down here as my batteries freeze quite quickly and even my tripod freezes and no longer will rotate... Normally I keep a headlamp with me, but this time I had forgotten it while in a rush to capture the dissipating aurora, so had to shoot with whatever I had last set the camera at, and had to hope i didn't bump the rings since i wouldn't be able to see to change anything. Unfortunately while walking out to this point to take the photos I bumped the focal ring on the lens and ever so slightly causing the pictures to bit out of focus, but the pano was so beautiful I couldn't just toss it. These images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II at 16mm, f-stop 2.8 for 30 second exposures. *edit: You can see each of the constellations drawn in over the skyline here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=31101 |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 2
Here you see Gavin Booth and Adam Wilton of the British South Pole Expedition 2008 as they arrive at the South Pole on December 27. Their 700 mile, unsupported ski journey from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole raised funds for the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. As they cross the skiway they are greeted by Leah Street, one of our summer crew members who is also a volunteer tour guide. She will show them to the Geographic South Pole marker, the Ceremonial Pole and to the spot where they can pitch their tents. They will get a brief tour of the station and then wait in their camp for the plane that will take them back to the coast. As a benefit of the shooting and stitching process that created this panorama, you see them again, farther to the right, as they are escorted to the tourist area in front of the station. This panorama shows a wide view of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from the support buildings in the back (grid south) to the science buildings and Ice Cube project toward grid west and grid north. Please enjoy your tour as you explore the snapshots. The 61 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D 80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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The city on the beach. Montevideo have a lot of diferente beaches in a coastline of over 20 km long. |
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Amundsen Scott Station is a cold, isolated community of scientists and support personel at the bottom of the world, the South Pole.
This is a peculiar place. Anywhere you look, you really are looking north. The station has an alpha entrance on one end and a zulu entrance on the other end. Both of them are, in reality, north entrances. Each year has only one sunrise and one sunset. From the Spring Equinox to the Fall Equinox, the sun never sets. The rest of the year the sun is below the horizon. It is cold here. Actually it is the highest, driest, coldest place that I have visited. You can see some of the research buildings in this panorama. There is also evidence of people at play. You can have fun looking around this photograph without worrying about frostbite. Believe it or not, this is the view from the window of my new office. Of course, it faces north. The 21 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 2
Here is a panorama of the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station on the evening of December 31, 2008. The snowy landscape around the Pole is fairly quiet, as almost everyone is getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party in the gymnasium of the elevated station. We have not yet taken apart our Christmas tree, and the 2008 Pole marker remains in the snow where it was placed on January 1 of last year. Tomorrow during a 1pm ceremony, the Geographic Pole marker will change to its 2009 version, which was designed and made by the 2008 overwinter crew. The new marker will be set onto a post in a new hole in the ice that is located about 30 feet closer to the Dome. The American Flag and the sign with its brief written accounts of Amundsen's and Scott's arrival at the Pole will move along with it. The South Pole Station is situated on top of the largest sheet of ice on Planet Earth. The elevated station, the Dome, and everything else that you see here drift a little bit toward grid northwest each day. Once each year the location of the Geographic Pole is officially corrected to place it once again over the axis of rotation of the planet. In 2008, we use GPS to confirm the location of the Pole. All of this constant, predictable glacial motion and the annual marker movement create an interesting pastime for the crew and visitors to the station, especially for the folks who brought their own GPS’s to the Pole. In the summer of 1911-12, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott had a much more difficult time confirming that they and their parties had in fact arrived at 90 degrees south latitude. On the left of the image you see the ice-carving efforts of some of the station crew. They have been working on these giant blocks for several weeks, and their art will be judged on January 4. The ambient temperature, which has now risen to approach 0 degrees Fahrenheit, makes ice carving a comfortable exercise, as long as the wind is fairly calm. It looks like they had some great ideas and that they have been busy at their task. Which carving would earn your vote? The 30 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D 80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. Please enjoy The South Pole on New Year's Eve 2008. |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 2
Here we see a nice collection of vehicles that you could find at the South Pole on a typical summer day. I captured this panorama on the walk back to the elevated station from the Twin Otter that is sitting in the fuel pit. They had just completed the end-of-summer aerial photo survey of the area. On that mission, three photographers recorded the snow drift patterns around the station. The image contains quite a few of the vehicles that we use here. Soon the extreme cold of the South Pole winter will put most of these machines safely out of service until the sun reappears and warms everything up next summer. Sleds, cranes, LMC's, snowmobiles, pistenbullies and the like are all resident vehicles under the care of the Vehicle Maintenance Shop. The guys who work in the VMF are experts in what extreme cold does to metal, rubber and batteries. The VMF crew does a great job keeping us mobile despite the cold weather and the supply difficulties that are inherent to working in an outpost at the bottom of the planet. The last plane of the summer of 2008-09, which was an LC-130 like the one in this image, tipped its wings into the low afternoon sun on February 16. The first plane to fly to Pole in mid-October will likely be one of Kenn Borek’s Baslers which will come from Canada, cross North and South America, stop over at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and then continue on to the Pole. Kenn Borek's Twin Otters and other Baslers will follow soon afterward. In early November, when the temperature rises above -50 degrees Fahrenheit, the LC-130's flown by the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard will also return to the Pole. Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew the first plane over the South Pole on November 29, 1929. Rear Admiral George Dufek landed the first plane here on October 31, 1956, and the construction of Old Pole began soon afterward. Planes have been flying supplies here since 1956, and air transportation has made research at this remote outpost possible. In the future, the planes will continue, but we will also be using overland traverses to move some of the cargo. This will be very nice when scientific payloads are too large to fit into the hold of an LC-130. Instead of hours needed for a plane to fly from the coast, the traverses take a month or more to get here and another month to return to McMurdo, but land travel will be much less expensive. This image also shows the summer housing and summer work shops. It gives a nice peek at the area behind the elevated station. The 56 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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Old dense icebergs that have broken off from the Antarctic ice sheets travel northward through the Southern Ocean, melting and breaking into smaller pieces as they encounter warmer water.
In this shallow bay in the South Orkney Islands, a considerable number of large, dense icebergs have come to rest in water that is still cold enough to maintain them for many years. Because of the big, resting bergs, this place is known as an "iceberg graveyard". This iceberg is being slowly scupltured by waves as it sits serenely anchored in the bay. The dense ice that has very little air incorrporated within, glows intense blue in the dark blue-gray water. The 6 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D-80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |