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Detailed image of numerous events going on in Boston. Many hidden jewels buried in this photograph. |
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This is the gun deck of the USS Constitution.
This is my first try at a Gigapan with very low light levels. I had to restart this one because 1.2 seconds per image is not compatible with a half second exposure. 2.2 seconds per image worked well. A cold winter day turns out to be a good time to do this. There are still tours, but not many tourists. Since people enter the gun deck only with a guide, I was able to leave the Gigapan unattended to finish its work while I toured the berthing deck a level below this one. I may well go back to get a better version of this. There are all sorts of interesting little details to be seen. |
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180 view of the Charles River in Cambridge/Boston with MIT to your back, and Boston's Back Bay in front of you. |
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Boston Waterfront, taken from near Logan Airport |
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No one does fireworks quite like Boston; this year's was the largest and most complex Boston Fourth of July pyrotechnic display to date. More than 20 thousand pounds of explosives were used for the display, which included the largest shells yet to be used - ten-inch diameter shells climbed to 1500 feet.
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Charles River, Boston, Ma, USA |
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Created in 1893, Prospect Hill Park covers 250 acres, entirely within the City of Waltham. At this size, it is a significant open space, and "perhaps the largest municipally-owned park inside the loop of Route 128." The park covers a ridge which features two significant peaks. At 485 feet above sea level, the higher of the two is the second highest point in the vicinity of Boston, only the Great Blue Hill stands taller. This peak has been called Great Prospect, but is more often referred to as Big Prospect, while its smaller associate, which stands at 435 feet, is known as Little Prospect. Both peaks provide excellent views of the Boston basin. About fifteen years before Prospect Hill Park was created, Frederick Law Olmsted began work on Boston's Emerald Necklace. This was a time when the construction of parks for passive recreation was important to much of Boston's elite. In 1882, the Massachusetts Park Act became law. This act encouraged the creation of park commissions which would then have the power to buy lands on behalf of a municipality. Ten years later the Metropolitan Parks Bill was passed as chapter 342 of the Acts of 1892. This act dictated that a board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners be formed to "...consider the advisability of laying out ample open spaces for the use of the public, in the towns and cities in the vicinity of Boston..." They were also assigned the duty of devising "...a comprehensive plan for laying out, acquiring and maintaining such open spaces." http://www.phpag.org/history.html |
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This was the biggest concentration of tall ships at Boston Sail 2009.
Here we the the Sagres, the Concordia, and Mircea. I'll have to check on the name of the white ship to the right of the Concordia. Note: my second largest gigapan to date - 520 8MP images. |