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Malvern - spring edition 3

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:51:06 Z

by Martin_Kulhavy "this is a spring version of this panorama: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=d918f739-2e8a-49b2-a380-fd4f818fc9a0 How many trains can you find?"

Scott's Discovery Hut

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:57:53 Z

by beryllium10 "Robert Falcon Scott led two expeditions to Antarctica hoping to reach the South Pole. This hut, near the present location of McMurdo Station, was built for the first of these, the 1901-04 Discovery Expedition. On this first exploratory journey, Scott's party (which included Ernest Shackleton), only reached 82 degrees south. Scott returned to Antarctica in 1910 as leader of the Terra Nova Expedition. On this expedition he reached the South Pole in January 1912, a month after Amundsen raised the Norwegian flag there. Scott and his party died in their tent on the return trip, only a day's journey from a food depot. Discovery hut was subsequently used by the Ross Sea party from Shackleton's 1915 Transantarctic expedition, and some of the provisions seen here probably date from that time."

Cascades and Bellevue from Seattle (with labels)

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:26:59 Z

by mattu "This is the view of Bellevue and the Cascade Mountains from the Mt. Baker neighborhood in Seattle, which borders Lake Washington. Many Seattleites also see these mountains when commuting across the lake on the floating bridges. I’ve been doing this drive for 15 years but didn’t know the names of many of the peaks. So, after stitching this I called on Larry Robinson (http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=Larry_R) for help. I’d previously admired Larry’s labeled panoramas of the Cascades here on Photosynth and on his website: http://www.larryscascaderesource.com/. Larry took the GPS coordinates of my shooting location and used National Geographic Topo! to find the bearings (http://bit.ly/tNSRbB) to the various features to determine what is visible in this image. He then added the labels to the image using Photoshop. As a final check, we called upon John Roper (http://www.rhinoclimbs.com/rhino.html) to verify the work and give some suggestions for the more esoteric names. Many of the peaks identified in this image do have one or more alternate names; to keep things simple we tried to pick the most commonly used one. In case you want to find these on a map, many of the peaks labeled here are also captured in a Bing Maps collection: http://www.bing.com/maps/?cid=D4509C171DB14E97!774 This was shot from Mt. Baker Ridge in Seattle on 11/5/2011 from 4:47–4:54 p.m. The location was about 100 yards from this Photosynth which was shot a few minutes earlier: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=f1a4d519-9ab7-438e-9874-e70df1ebae90 Software: -RAW processing in Adobe Camera RAW -84 x 25MPix tiff images stitched by Microsoft ICE -Labels added in Photoshop (Larry) -National Geographic Topo! for bearings (Larry) Hardware: Gigapan Epic Pro, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (at f/9, ISO-640, aperture priority), and 300mm lens with 2x extender."

Milky Way from Rattlesnake Lake

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:00:07 Z

by ericotm "This is my first tentative to create a full sky panorama. It is a result of 18 exposures, 30 seconds each, taken with a Canon T3i and 10-22mm lens, stitched together with Microsoft ICE. Although I am happy that I could get that result in my first try, my plan is to do the same thing from a darker site, with a lot less light pollution."

The High Enchantments

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:14:02 Z

by David

Tour de France 2011-Stage12, Pyrenees-Luz Ardiden finish line

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:48:46 Z

by ASPY650

Tour de France 2011: Audio room

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:55:56 Z

by ASPY650

Playhouse

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:36:13 Z

by K "I've been wanting to get a playhouse for the girls for a while but had a hard time finding the right one. Did you know that they make $10,000 playhouses? I didn't. Anyway we found a reasonable kit and Grandpa and Uncle Scott came over and helped me put it together. Thank goodness they did - it took the 3 of us all day. My favorite part is the window in the back, Ana likes to serve smoothies and lattes from back there. Does anyone know where I can find a toy espresso machine?"

Royal Wedding: Inside Westminster Abbey

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:26:08 Z

by alisongow

Charles Babbage's DE No. 2 at the Computer History Museum

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:24:53 Z

by Joseph_Joy "This is a Gigapixel image of the Difference Engine No. 2 (DE2) located at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View (www.computerhistory.org). Charles Babbage designed the DE2 but it was never built in his lifetime. Over 100 years later a team at the London Science Museum led by Doron Swade built the first DE2. This particular machine, owned by Narhan Myhrvold, is one of the 2 in existence, the other being at the London Science Museum. The image was stitched from 132 individual photographs using Microsoft Research’s Image Composite Editor. The photographs were taken on August 26th, 2010 by Joseph M. Joy as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Computer History Museum and Microsoft Research. Please contact the museum for more information."