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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica.
This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded by total darkness, unless we happen to be graced by a beautiful aurora! I was lucky enough to catch this nice aurora along with the moon. The moon is so bright down here that it mutes out the sky, making shots of stars quite difficult. I have to move very fast while taking photos down here as my batteries freeze quite quickly and even my tripod freezes and no longer will rotate... Normally I keep a headlamp with me, but this time I had forgotten it while in a rush to capture the dissipating aurora, so had to shoot with whatever I had last set the camera at, and had to hope i didn't bump the rings since i wouldn't be able to see to change anything. Unfortunately while walking out to this point to take the photos I bumped the focal ring on the lens and ever so slightly causing the pictures to bit out of focus, but the pano was so beautiful I couldn't just toss it. These images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II at 16mm, f-stop 2.8 for 30 second exposures. *edit: You can see each of the constellations drawn in over the skyline here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=31101 |
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Point Hope area as seen from out on the sea ice beyond the point. |
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Taken with a 500mm mirror lens, which has excessive vignetting unfortunately. But the details is really good! |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 2
Contributors: Katy Jensen and Nathan Greenland So, here we are in the arches between the elevated station and the Dome. Within the arches you find the Facilities, Engineering, Maintenance and Construction (FEMC) shops, the power plant, and massive areas for storing building supplies, spare parts and fuel. The nearby ice tunnels run under the surface near the arches, and they connect the station and the arches to a number of outlying structures. This cavernous room with the monumental steel doors is in the logistics facility, which is commonly called the LO. It is designed for receiving incoming cargo. Most of the new materials arriving at the Pole on next summer’s planes and on the traverse will come straight here. In the coming years we hope to also move most of our storage off the berms and into these well-lit and wind-resistant arches. Once through these doors, the cargo will be sorted, inventoried and put in its proper place. It will be a major improvement in inventory control. The last plane of summer left here a month ago, and there will be no more flights until mid-October at the earliest, and so this room has been fairly quiet lately. At least there haven't been many people down here. We don't get a lot of snowfall at the Pole, but with temperatures that never get much above 0 degrees Fahrenheit, the snow that does fall doesn't melt. We are approaching winter, and with recent winds of up to 30 knots, the persistent snow is swirling just above the ground in gossamer, white rivulets. The wandering snow seems always to be looking for a way inside, and it has found a convenient inward route through a gap in the LO doors. Ours is a very light, very fine, powdery snow, at least on the surface. Easily picked up and put outside on the blade of a shovel, much of it quickly returns to us on the edge of the wind. A quarter inch gap in a doorway can create a deep drift that extends far into a room. As we work at tightening up the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for the winter, this room looks like a good place to do some snow shoveling and an equally good place for creating a hindrance to the incoming snow. And so we see a doc with a shovel moving the snow outside where it belongs, and we see the carpenters at work tightening up the gap the doors. Have a look around this place. Even if it is -55 degrees Fahrenheit in the LO today, and the wind is howling mightily beyond the doors, you probably won't even have to dust the snow off your keyboard when you are done. The 23 images of this panorama where photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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I took this panorama while it was snowing. It was a real challenge, but with help of my brother (Parham) and my cousins (Pezhman and Bayan) ((by holding my cap over the camera! Not to get wet)) I finally did it. The result is not bad. The interesting story is that it was 11th of Farvardin (the first month of Persian calendar) and it was snowing while there was only one real snow in Tehran during the last winter.
To find out more about Tochal in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochal’ http://www.tochal.org/en/ in Persian: http://www.tochal.org/fa/ http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%84 |
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This is a Snow Algae sample (sample SA3) given to me to image by Thomas Beer. This is made up of 27 images of the sample magnified 800x. |
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A 360 degree panorama consisting of 10 images. All hand held.
Notice the two shadows of myself. Stitched with Autopano pro. |
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West Block, Center Block with Peace Tower and East Block |