Rice University: Susannah in the Engineering Quad by David Engle

Leica D-Lux 3

Thus should really be called, "Play on Light," for there are colors, and different zones and some tones and shadows and bright to intense sunlight and even reflections, not to mention some cool looking architecture and granite slabs that you won't find anywhere else ... its got everything!

I was there to capture the sunlit door, the east door going into the chemistry building, Keck Hall. This time of the year, to see the golden color of the door, you have to be there early and the effect only lasts for a few minutes.

Because of the early time, I was not expecting many people to be around, especially students and I was surprised to see a couple of students studying (one you will see, but the other left with his friend for breakfast), a Rice Dad and his young son, Landry, named after another Texan, Coach Landry. After the panorama started, all of a sudden, Susannah appeared with her boy friend, a Rice post doc and their two dogs and all agreed to be in my Gigapan.

Please compare this Gigapan to a previous Gigapan from a month earlier:
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=f1d3c7ab9c51c27b4ab6eeb3222b3398
Notice that the trees have changed their appearence. It is good fortune that I walked away from completing it, otherwise I would not have had a great panorama as what I have with this panorama of Susannah.

As always, this Gigapan looks great when viewed in Google Earth via the GE link and was taken in the same area as one of my earliest Gigapans: www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6656
And if you go to: www.pbase.com/texas_photo/image/87015471  you will see that this window that we see the reflection is one of my favorite locations on campus.