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Time for those red-blue glasses again!
And Wow! Look at that depth of field! |
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Not the best lighting, but sometimes you have to take what you can get. |
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This near-360 shows the relative location of the USGS erosion study site, part of their Ridge to Reef Project. I used aperture priority exposure to make sure the study area and surrounding grounds were properly exposed without over-exposing the sky. There are a few stitching anomalies, which are not unexpected for such a complex image. The study site is at about 720-740 meters elevation (~2400 ft) along the east rim of Kawela Gulch. The fenced area is about 40 meters away from the camera. As an indication of the slope of the ridge, the rocks close to the camera, opposite from the fenced area, are only 2 to 4 meters from the GigaPan unit. I shall attempt to stitch this gigapan using the newest Alpha version of AutoPano Pro Giga 1.9. I hope that the color and exposure correction features, as well as the panorama straightening tool, make this image a bit more pleasing to the eye. Nonetheless, it does put the site into context!
Mahalo nui loa to Rich Gibson for stitching this gigapan. |
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This is the Wilson Creek Coulee badlands near Drumheller, Alberta, part of Dinosaur Provincial Park. Many of the fossils in the Tyrell Museum have come from these badlands.
There's a young girl peeking out from behind one of the hoodoos. ( I'll let you find her and do a snapshot of her) High resolution large format view in Google Earth: http://maps.pbase.com/darby2/image/113204546# |
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Another context gigapan for the USGS Kawela Gulch Ridge to Reef erosion study site. Here, one can see the island of Lana`i clearly, as well as at least 6 fish ponds and the Kaunakakai Pier. |
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Mushroom Rock is an iconic natural feature on the Great Plains of western Kansas. The Fremont Trail passed north of here and many visitors have left their mark. A wider view of Mushroom rock can be found at: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2592 |
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Located just north of Cache Creek, BC beside Highway 97 in British Columbia. The hills are also forested with pine trees, many of which have been killed by the Mountain Pine beetle. The hills are part of the Marble Range which includes Marble Canyon to the west of here.
Polarizing filter was used. |
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From the Devil Canyon overlook, looking north along the main channel of Bighorn Canyon.
If I remember the stratigraphy correctly, the top layer of the canyon is formed from the Madison Limestone, which is over 350 million years ago - same age and similar in appearance to the Redwall Limestone that makes up part of the sequence in the Grand Canyon (although not the rim, as this is exposed here). |
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The United States Geological Survey(USGS) is conducting a soil erosion study in a highly disturbed area along the east rim of Kawela Gulch on Moloka`i. This area, once dryland forest, has been greatly impacted, first through cattle grazing, and now by large herds of feral goats. The lack of plant cover leads to massive erosion that carries silt into Kawela Stream and into the Pacific Ocean, smothering near shore reefs and destroying sensitive marine spawning grounds. This long term study will document water and silt runoff in a control, unfenced area, compared with a fenced area that will prevent grazing by feral ungulates, and allow plant recovery.
This gigapan, http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15058 , puts the site into a larger context. |
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Mushroom Rock is an excellent example of the geological concept of differential erosion. The hardened capstone is protecting softer underlying sediments, in this instance forming a distinctive mushroom-shaped outcropping. A detailed Gigapan of Mushroom Rock can be found at: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2570 |