GigaPans

These spectacular cliffs along the Ka`iwi Coast of O`ahu are next to the parking lot for the Moloka`i Lookout, between Hanauma Bay and the Hālona Blowhole. One cloud bank passed by, giving a dark band at about the 40% area. This is a 18 row x 48 column image. I thought it would be much larger, but I probably set the angle of view incorrectly and got too much overlap between images. How many fishermen can you find?

I have had the fortune to go to the Twelve Apostles twice now and both times it has been hazy. No big deal, just wish I could have taken a GigaPan on a nice clear day. In this GigaPan, the different colors of the cliff on the right are from where the sun did come out of the clouds for a while and then went back behind the clouds. The washed out area in the middle is where the sun came out, and the colorful areas are where the sun was behind the clouds. This is the first of three GigaPans I t...

Marshfield Cliffs as viewed from a beaver marsh south of cliffs. These cliffs are on Marshfield Mountain in Marshfield, Vermont, USA. This is a late autumn/early winter view. Snow flurry occurred the night prior to the photo, but most melted prior to the shoot. There were breaks in the clouds during the shoot, which led to the bright spot on the gigapan, and made me switch the camera exposure and speed midstream.

The White House Overlook. The classic postcard photos you may have seen do not portray well the scale of this canyon and its collection of ancient Anasazi indian ruins. This view of the ruins tucked into a cleft in the sheer rock face seen from 800 feet up and across the canyon also shows the meandering river and the farm and livestock of those Navajo who live both on the canyon floor and along the high ridges on both sides.

Slieve League Cliffs

Early morning view of the George Washington Bridge and the Pallisades in full fall colors.
The Panorama is taken form the 14th floor on Riverside Drive, looking southwest to north west.
Also visible is the Tappan Zee Bridge, Riverdale in the Bronx and Yonkers.

There are some barges on the Hudson River.

Across the river is Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Johnson Shut-Ins

http://www.mostateparks.com/jshutins.htm

The redeveloped Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park provides many of the key features visitors enjoyed in the past and several new features for today's visitors. Following are activities that are available this summer in the day-use area of the park. The park is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

The Shut-Ins and the East Fork of the Black River
The shut-ins area of the park is once again open for swimming and splashing. A ne...

Finally, I've reached the Cascades! And what a view!

The rocks of North Cascades National Park are not the Quaternary volcanics that make up the modern Cascade volcanic arc (those are coming - be patient, Richard). Rather, these rocks are the deeply eroded basement of earlier arcs and accreted terranes. There are a variety of alpine glacial features visible in this shot.

Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Provincial Park, BC, where the Murtle River plunges over the precipice about 475 feet high in a cloud of spray and mist forming an ice cone which will reach about half the height of the falls by early spring. It's the 4th highest fall in Canada and among the world's most spectacular. Some think the plunge pool at the bottom is nearly as deep as the height of the falls.

The cliffs are made up of many layers of basaltic lava laid down over several mill...