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Ken Tamminga (krt1)
State College, Pennsylvania,
United States of America
Gigapans: 27
Snapshots: 44
Bookmarks: 0
Last Visited: November 07, 2009
Tags:
environment,
landscape,
ecology,
design,
ghana,
himalayas,
sustainability
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Penn State University
Professor of Landscape Architecture
.and faculty, Graduate Ecology Program
GigaPan Fellow 2009
Unless otherwise noted, photos posted on this website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/).
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Canon PowerShot SX10 |
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Here's an improved version, this time shot using dual tungsten reflector lights in a studio. Details are crisper and the color much improved -- no washout and very close to the original.
distance camera to subject: 178cm
distance lights to subject @ 45 deg: 200cm
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Can you find the 8 dragons?
This is a gigapan study of a small thangka -- a canvas scroll painting that I purchased during a 2007 visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. Thangkas are created by anonymous (in this case, Tibetan) Buddhist monk-artists as both a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. This 40x40 cm piece is a mandala, the "floorplan of the universe." At the center is the Endless Knot, an important tantric symbol.
I'm happy with the detail, but the color is less vibrant than the original -- time to get out the studio lights. Tripod and Canon SX10 at 20x zoom were set up approx. 220 cm from the picture plane.
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Nittany Valley sinkhole profile
Author: Ken Tamminga (krt1)
Tags:
geology,
roadcut,
sinkhole,
karst,
fault,
stratigraphy,
cavity,
solution,
fofs,
carbonate,
limestone,
Nittany
Size: 1.72 gigapixels
Added: October 22, 2009
Total Views: 232
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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GigaPanographers: Ken Tamminga, Herb Westerveld
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GigaPanographers: Ken Tamminga, Rick Stehouwer
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GigaPanographers: Ken Tamminga, Rick Stehouwer
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GigaPanographers: Ken Tamminga, Rick Stehouwer
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GigaPanographers: Ken Tamminga, Rick Stehouwer
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Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain
Author: Ken Tamminga (krt1)
Tags:
fofs,
geology,
slide,
frank,
anticline,
alberta,
landslide,
turtle,
mountain,
stratigraphy,
carbonate
Size: 0.99 gigapixels
Added: August 9, 2009
Total Views: 320
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The Frank Slide is a natural landslide on the northeasterly face of Turtle Mountain in southwest Alberta, Canada. On April 29, 1903, 30 million cubic meters of rock tumbled down to the valley floor, burying much of the small town of Frank, and killing 76 people.
For further information, visit the website of the Frank Slide Interpretive Center at http://www.frankslide.com/
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The Wheel
Created: November 1, 2009
Taken From: Thangka #1
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Total Views: 5
The Wheel (Skt. chakra) is a composite symbol: the hub symbolizes moral discipline, the eight spokes stand for wisdom that overcomes ignorance, and the rim is a symbol of concentration that holds all else together.
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Endless Knot
Created: November 1, 2009
Taken From: Thangka #1
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Total Views: 4
The Endless Knot (Skt. shrivatsa) is a symbol of endless wisdom and human connectedness and continuity as the underlying reality of existence. It's a favorite symbol of Tibetan Buddhism.
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