GigaPans

The Lee Brown Building is the administrative office building for MetroRail.

The METRO Rail Redline Stations are identified in the following list:
1.) UH-Downtown
2.) Preston
3.) Main Street Square
4.) Bell
5.) Downtown Transit Center
6.) McGowan
7.) Ensemble/HCC
8.) Wheeler
9.) Museum District
10.) Hermann Park/Rice U
11.) Memorial Hermann Hospital/Houston Zoo
12.) Dryden/TMC
13.) TMC Transit Center
14.) Smith Lands
15.) Reliant Park
16.) Fannin South

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This from Dave McGary's website, http://www.davemcgary.com/biography-of-dave-mcgary.htm

On February 22, 1998, Dave installed a 30-foot tall, 15-foot wide monument weighing over ten tons at the Houston Astrodome. The sculpture, “Touch the Clouds”, depicts a nineteenth century Miniconjou Chief who fought alongside Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The project was announced at a ceremony and national media press conference in February of 1996, where Dave unveiled a 43 in...

In this view we see the northbound museum station. The next stop will be Wheeler.

To the north of McGown is the Downtown Transit Center station and to the south is Ensemble/HCC station.

As this neighboorhood does not have strong appeal to me, I'm not sure why anyone would use this station except to walk across the street and buy a Cadillac automobile.

This panorama is comprised of 9 photographs, which were taken with a Leica D-Lux 3 camera and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software.

Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved p...

My goal for Monday, June 29th, was to spend the entire morning and most of the afternoon taking hand-held GigaPans of the entire collection of the fifteen current MetroRail Stations along the Redline corridor from downtown at the furthest north station located at University of Houston extending south to the maintenance area station located past the South Loop.

The hand-held option was due to the extreme temperature that Houston has been suffering through for a number of weeks and yesterda...

If you go to http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26828, and scroll down to comments, you will see how this played an important part the taking of the GigaPan, Crown Jewels of Houston Architecture.

In this 360-degree panorama, we see a northbound train at the southbound station and past the reflection pool, we can see the northbound station where we saw the two Hare Krishna Dudes: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27716.

Because of the nature on the reflection pools and the Houston skyscrapers, we see a dark nature of peace, rest and solitude along the Redline tracks.

It is really nice to have a station here for Rice University, but it is not used that much because the students and faculty have their cars and for people that want to go to Hermann Park, the station to the north would be best for the museums and the next station to the south, is best for the zoo access.

The METRO Rail Redline Stations are identified in the following list:
1.) UH-Downtown
2.) Preston
3.) Main Street Square
4.) Bell
5.) Downtown Transit Center
6.) McGowan
7.) E...

A view looking south towards Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, an active church in the inner city.

Another view can be seen at: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29794

Since this church is across the stree from Rice University, I have added it to the collection of Rice GigaPan, which can be accessed via this link: http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversity

For this hand-held panorama, I used a Nikon D70 with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens and was stitched with the GigaPan Stitcher.