GigaPans

Taken on the last day of the 2011 OBFS Meeting at Bodega Bay Marine Lab, Bodega Bay California.

This is the second version of this image, stitched with the new 2.0 stitcher. The resutls are significantly improved from this one: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/88326

Grizzly shot for the Alta bark Beetle survey. Might need to shoot it again since the far trees are so dark.

Smithsonian research station, Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 9. 2012; Canon Powershot D10 with Epic100

We were on a Quark Explorers Cruise on the MV Professor Multanovskiy, and we were exploring the Antarctic Peninsula. It was a beautiful day a after an impressive storm at sea. We took shelter from the gale in Hope Harbor, and we were invited ashore when the weather cleared.

It was a great landing. Base Esperanza is a year-round base that is the home to several families with children. The base has family-friendly facilities not found on most Antarctic bases. There is a chapel, a community ce...

Here's the main lawn at the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, a research and education arm of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I'm working on a 1.5 gigapixel version.
Brisk trade winds and rapidly moving clouds made this a difficult image to capture.

Hand shot 360 degree view of the new EcoCam timelapse camera installed by TimeScience in Mequite, NV along the Virgin River.

Installing the new gigavision timelpase gigapixel camera system in the Univeristy of Chicago greenhouse.
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Hand shot pano stitched with Autopano Giga

Nearbynature photo contest:

I live in Peru and took this photo of a large macaw clay lick in the Amazon rainforest. Every morning hundreds of macaws and parrots come to the clay lick to eat clay which helps neutralize their bodies of toxins that they may have ingested from eating other plants and also gives them their daily dose of salt. Macaws that have babies take the clay back to their nest and feed it to their kids.

Macaws eat a variety of foods including fruits, palm fruits, nuts, s...

Where are the bee hives????

These bees were unloaded off of a truck the day before this Gigapan was taken. The bees were transported here on that truck from North Dakota.

We set the Gigapan up on the side of a hill and then drove down to the bees to work. You can tell what time of day it was because of the heavy dew on the grass and the perpetual haze on the horizon. Lots of pollen coming into these hives, bright orangish red pollen...nice apiary!!

We sampled bees ,estimated the n...