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Here is one of the biggest limbs I've encountered on a redwood. Too bad many of the photographs used to make this were blurry. The lower canopy of this old-growth forest is very dark, and I had to set the exposure for low light. |
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The Crown Point Bridge was abruptly closed on October 16, 2009 after underwater inspection revealed dramatic deterioration of two support piers. Built in 1929 between Chimney Point, Vermont (right) and Crown Point, New York (left), it is one of only two bridges that cross Lake Champlain. The bridge is not expected to open again soon, if ever, and local businesses and several hundred daily commuters are scrambling to cope.
Update (December 28, 2009): Watch video of the bridge being demolished today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNRm4UVRbw Update (January 14, 2010): New bridge design chosen today: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100114/NEWS02/100114023/1007/RSS02 The shores which so spectacularly narrow the lake here have a long history of human occupation and drama. Ruins of a 1731 French fort and the larger British 1759-1763 Fort Crown Point can be seen under the arched through-truss. On the Vermont side, the Chimney Point Museum occupies a two story 1780s brick tavern where Seth Warner plotted the American capture of Fort Crown Point. In 2000, the bridge made cameo appearances in What Lies Beneath (Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer) and Me, Myself, and Irene (Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger). Notes: I used a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens at f/11, 1/250 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 450mm, and field of view was set to 3.1 degrees. Focus was manually adjusted many times. Two second shutter delay was initiated by wireless remote. Lightroom was used to remove vignetting and increase exposure and saturation before outputting jpegs for stitching. |
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Walking east from Poole Quay past the marina, this boulder field is looking toward Baiter Park.
Many periwinkles and a mixture of alga to be seen. Not bad for a first attempt at Gigapan on a cloudy and gusty day! |
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Brown University's Great Temple Excavation, at Petra, Jordan. Gigapan taken by Ian Straughn. |
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Another view of the main part of the enclosed trackway at Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT (http://www.dinosaurstatepark.org).
More lovely Eubrontes here - some of the closest areas still have mucky bits of rock that represent the mud layer that overlies the trackway - it's still adhering to the print below, hence the mucky appearance. |
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This is a fairly small version of the tree that dominates the Pampas. A guide told us that it is actually an herb, ( misinformation corrected by the comment below from Richard...thanks.)and that it was the only shade on the pampas when people started using the area for cattle. You might notice that the picture of me on the right side of the gigapan is in motion....I thought the robot had cleared the area where I had been leaning up against the tree. |
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The Addison County Fair and Field Days is the largest agricultural fair in Vermont.
Notes: I used an old Nikkor 105mm lens. Focus is manual, there is no metering, and the EXIF data includes no lens information (so stitcher notes are incomplete), but it is a real lens (blast these newfangled plastic zoomy things). As the sun set and I took four panoramas from the same location, I changed ISO, color preset, shutter speed, and f-stop, and mostly lost track of the changes. I think this one used ISO 800, More vivid, 1/20 sec, and about f/5.6 |
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Looking into the sun - not the best angle. |
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White pine, red oak, and paper birch are common in this view today because two centuries of timber removal has reduced the success of the original late successional dominants. According to the "witness trees" noted in the original lot surveys in Salisbury, the most common trees in the late 18th century were American beech, sugar maple, and eastern hemlock . In this scene, most of the green tree foliage is of white pine, and the rich brown foliage includes red oak and white oak. The brightest yellow leaves are aspen, but leaves of some red maple, sugar maple, and paper birch are also yellow.
This panorama is a repeat of http://gigapan.org/gigapans/28882/ which was taken in summer with a poorer lens. This GigaPan can be viewed in its geographic context here: http://conservation.townofsalisbury.org/panoramas/lakedunmore/index.htm Some technical notes are in a comment. |
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This is one of my favorite spots in Gombe. It is quite well hidden and you have to know where it is. Fortunately the chimps traveled through here years ago when I was with them and have I returned many time since. It is at the top of a 100'cliff overlooking a natural bowl. I have spent hundereds of hours in this valley following the Gombe chimps. |