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This pond is spring feed and holds water all year, almost every year. Consequently it is home to many animals and is visitied by many others. Coyotes like to hunt for groud squirrels here and are often present when people are not around or are quiet. I have even spoted a mountain lion here. A scarlet tananger came by to check me out while I was setting up, apparently drawn by the sort of chipring sound that my motors made. But this was early afternoon on a 100 degree day so all of the other beasts hide from this, and I was largely alone except for dragonflys. |
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This is the second Gigapan I have created. |
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Here is the koi pond at the Conservatory. You can see a gigapan of the exterior here: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/24231/ Canon G10 with Raynox DCR-1540 tele auxilliary lens, giving an effective 35mm focal length of 219mm. 3-second GigaPan delay. |
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This was a test -- my first use of the gigapan beta hardware and software. The subject is a pond in the community where I live -- Westgate of Lincolnshire, IL. I particularly like the way the sky turned out, as well as the reflections in the pond. The camera was a Canon PowerShot SD800 IS, and 65 photos were taken (5 rows, 13 columns). After minimal cropping in Photoshop CS3 the size is 27115 x 7457 pixels. |
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Pittsburgh's West Park on the North Side. JASMINE GEHRIS/TRIBUNE-REVIEW |
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Image of Umass Dubois library, Umass Pond waterfountains, Umass Old Chapel, all at night. Long exposure at 20 seconds per photo at f18 and using a 200mm lens |
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Taken on a cold October afternoon (10/17/09) overlooking Turtle Pond from a Belvedere Castle overlook, this is one of the largest GigaPans I've taken yet. Almost 1150 images large, this took an entire afternoon to stitch using the newest GigaPan software (version 1.0). Note the top of the castle spire -- those are the instruments which record the official New York City weather. I'm sure this GigaPan would look better on a sunny day -- but there was something very nice about the windy autumn day that I think is well captured in this photograph. Also, the water is stripped in this image because the wind was really swirling and blowing the water around in all sorts of directions.
When it was built, the view from Belvedere Castle provided a vista over the rectangular receiving reservoir, which has been replaced by the Great Lawn, an oval of turf with eight baseball diamonds, loosely defined by plantings of trees in clumps in the manner of the English landscape garden, and, at the foot of Vista Rock, the Turtle Pond, redesigned in 1997 as a naturalistic planting, in which no single vantage-point reveals the water's full extent. Sunken concrete shelving at varying depths provide ideal water depths for shoreline plants such as lizard's tail, bullrush, turtlehead, and blueflag iris. The success of habitat for birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles is embodied in sightings of species of dragon-fly not previously sighted in Central Park. My Homepage: http://www.michaelhussey.com |
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This is Walden Pond taken from the center of the pond. Though the pond was frozen over, I was too timid to get far enough out to so that the site of Thoreau's cabin would be in the shot. I went just a little past the ice fisher. I figured it was reasonably safe to go where he'd been. |
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The garden is part of the Devonian Botanical Garden administered by the University of Alberta. It's a favorite venue for weddings and there were three underway while I was shooting. If you look very carefully in the pond there's a Koi. On the original files you can nearly make out the scales.
More info on the garden: http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/ |
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This is a pond in Coonskin Park in Charleston, WV. Officially named Herscher Lake, but generally referred to as the Duck Pond (by everyone I know, at least), even though it looks like the geese now far outnumber the ducks. Along with a nice paved path around the 2.5 acre pond, the area features a nice playground, miniature golf, pedal boats (in summer), a skateboard park, and free fishing. For more info about the pond and Coonskin in general, see: http://www.kcprc.com/coonskin.html |