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The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction near Cañon City, Colorado, within a 360 acre (1.5 km²) theme park, hanging 1,053 feet (321 m) above the Arkansas River and billed as the highest suspension bridge in the world. The Royal Gorge Route Railroad runs under the bridge along the base of Royal Gorge. The bridge is 1260 feet (384 m) long and 18 feet (5 m) wide, with a wooden walkway with 1292 planks. The bridge is suspended from towers that are 150 feet (46 m) high.
The panorama is made of 480 pictures at focal length of 400mm. Due to file size limitations I have uploaded a smaller version only. Any commercial use or publication of the image, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holder is strictly prohibited. |
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An earlier GigaPan of Sam Houston Statue can be seen here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=9906
This should be entitled something like, "Continuation of Engle's Transportation Series, Past and Future," or a better one would be simply, "One Lucky Shot." Just playing around with taking hand-held photos using the SX110 and just accidentally caught two trains on either side of Sam Houston Statue. It is only 9 images, but the panorama looks cool and happened on a hot day in Houston, Texas. Using the robot, I do not believe I could have captured a moment like what we see above: 9 photos in less than a minute [left to right]. This is a reason to always try to carry a camera for those unexpected moments in time we call great panoramas. |
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New controversial Venice bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava (www.calatrava.com). The bridge joins the main bus terminal to the main train station. The shoot proved to be very problematic as everything was moving, including the camera!!. It was very windy and there are dozens of moving boats and hundreds of moving people. The shoot is incomplete as it had to be abandoned due to rain. |
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The old Michigan train depot is a canvas for graffiti artists. The Michigan Central Depot was opened in 1913. The building was designed in the Beaux Art neoclassical style by architects Warren and Wetmore, and engineers Reed and Stern. The last train departed January 5, 1988 and the building was permanently closed. The decay began and the building has since been stripped to the bone by vandals. It is now a shell of its former self.
To see more photos and 360 panaramas go to http://freep.com/article/20090426/MULTI/90424089 and http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=C4&Dato=20090425&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=904250807&Ref=PH |
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This 180 was taken with my Gigapan and G9 on a sunny and unseasonably warm January afternoon. The view is looking north from Sarah's bridge (48th street) on the west side of Denver's Globeville neighborhood. Directly ahead is a concrete manufacturing plant, to the Northwest is a portion of the Denver's rail yards, to the Northeast is majestic Long's Peak. I hope you'll have fun exploring this densely packed 888 megapixel Gigapan. |
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Taken about 10 minutes after the Durango-Silverton steam train pulls in. In the lower right you can see the "Sweeper Car" just coming in having collected cinders and put out fires tossed by the firebosx. (Fuji IS-1 300mm [barely fits the gigapan] stitched with Calico on the Mac)
Vertical bands of differing exposure may be caused by clouds moving over the landscape as the gigapan takes another column of photos. |
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There are many snapshots to be taken in this panorama. One of which is what appears to be a stitching error, which I emphasize that it is not. It is a sliding-south error caused by heavy rain and me not on good footing and as I was turning around taking this 360 hand-held panorama, the ground started sliding downhill fast and I did what every good GigaPanographer should do in similar circumstances, I finished taking the shots no matter how muddy I became This panorama completes the series of three taken on this memorable Saturday. The other two can be found by searching for Tamara. |
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I wandered around Helsinki for a few days before and after our ride on the icebreaker to the North Pole. Lost in Helsinki one fine morning, I wandered into the Helsinki Central Railway Station. where I was surprised by how few people were trying to catch a train.
The station is huge, with a surprising modern look that speaks very well for the design and maintenance of a transportation facility that was opened in 1911. The design by Eliel Saarinen has certainly stood up well to the test of time. The trains of three rail lines leave here for neighboring cities and for long-haul routes to destinations such as St. Petersburg, Paris, Monte Carlo or Madrid. Oddly there are trains to Russia and to Sweden, but there are no trains to Norway. New arrivals in Helsinki can link to the city's metro system by an underground walkway. Thisw seemed like a very comfortable place to wait for a train. Even with the help of digital cameras and my GPS, I am seldom so certain of the time I snapped a panorama as I am for this one. The 11 frames were photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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The Michigan Central Depot was opened in 1913. The building was designed in the Beaux Art neoclassical style by architects Warren and Wetmore, and engineers Reed and Stern. The last train departed January 5, 1988 and the building was permanently closed. The decay began and the building has since been stripped to the bone by vandals. It is now a shell of its former self.
To see more photos and 360 panaramas go to http://freep.com/article/20090426/MULTI/90424089 and http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=C4&Dato=20090425&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=904250807&Ref=PH |
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Décorée des armoiries des provinces du Canada.
Arch ceiling of the Gare du Palais, Quebec city. Adorned with the blazons of the provinces of Canada. |