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Ohiopyle Falls on the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle, PA is the largest waterfall in western Pennsylvania. At the center of Ohiopyle State Park the falls marks the beginning of the fabled "lower Yough" a favorite of kayakers. After two heavy rains, the Yough was running high and muddy. |
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This 360 degree GigaPan from a trail in Schenley Park includes the vine covered bank uphill, and the mid canopy of the forest downhill. This early morning shot was taken with fixed exposure (1/3 sec, f8) and automatic focus. The forest canopy includes red and white oak, Norway maple, sycamore, and tulip tree. |
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Time for those red-blue glasses again!
And Wow! Look at that depth of field! |
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Dry Oak Forest in the Salisbury Town Forest. Thin, till-derived soil on this gentle south-facing slope supports a stunted forest of white, chestnut, and red oak. These species grow more than twice as tall elsewhere on deeper or wetter soils. Shrubs, herbs, and grasses take advantage of the ample sunlight passing through the sparse canopy. The similar size of the oaks suggests they are similar in age, and that they colonized the site after the previous vegetation was removed by logging or fire about a century ago. There are lots of seedlings of all three oak species, and if deer don't eat them, this forest type could persist here as the first generation trees mature and die.
More information is in a comment. |
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Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest at Lone Rock Point, Vermont – This forest type, dominated by northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), is common in Vermont only where calcareous cliffs overlook Lake Champlain. At Lone Rock Point, thin soil among the outcrops of Dunham dolostone supports a stunted cedar forest with eastern hemlock and several other trees.
Harvesting of the rot-resistant cedar trunks and other trees has disturbed this site, but 300 year old trees are present elsewhere on the lake shore, and 1000 year old cedars grow on cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada. The location of this site is depicted in the following GigaPan: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30397 More information follows in a comment . |
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I reshot the Emmons Glacier at a slightly different exposure in hopes of bringing out some of the glacial features that might have been overexposed in the larger Rainier Sunrise GigaPan: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/31687/ |
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Curved gouges, possibly left by faulting, in a rock outcrop in Milford, CT.
These marks are hard to see far away - zoom in and pan around to see them better... the direction changes from vertical near the bottom of the outcrop to more horizontal near the top. |
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View of the southwest corner of the capitol building. |
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Brown University's Great Temple Excavation, at Petra, Jordan. Gigapan taken by Ian Straughn. |
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Not the best lighting, but sometimes you have to take what you can get. |