GigaPans

This creek is called Farnsworth Branch, south of Clarendon, PA in the Allegheny National Forest.

Hagerstown soil is the basis of some of the most productive agricultural land in the state. It is formed from the Coburn and Bellefonte limestone formations of the Ridge & Valley physiographic province of central Pennsylvania.

USDA/NRCS's Official Soil Series Description: "deep and very deep, well drained soils formed in residuum of hard gray limestone. Slope ranges from 0 to 45 percent. Permeability is moderate."
for full description, see: http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov...

Andover soils are typically found along the lower slopes of the ridges that characterize the Ridge & Valley physiographic province of central Pennsylvania.

USDA/NRCS's Official Soil Series Description: "Very deep, poorly drained soils formed in colluvium. They are on benches, toeslopes, footslopes, and swales along the base of prominent ridges. Slopes range from 0 to 15 percent. Permeability is slow."
for more detail, see:
http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/A/ANDOVE...

The Frank Slide is a natural landslide on the northeasterly face of Turtle Mountain in southwest Alberta, Canada. On April 29, 1903, 30 million cubic meters of rock tumbled down to the valley floor, burying much of the small town of Frank, and killing 76 people.
For further information, visit the website of the Frank Slide Interpretive Center at http://www.frankslide.com/

Penn State's beloved Rec Hall.

GigaPanographers: Aaron and Ken

Here is an improved version, this time shot using dual tungsten reflector lights in a studio. Details are crisper and the color much improved -- no washout and very close to the original.

distance camera to subject: 178cm
distance lights to subject @ 45 deg: 200cm

This is a gigapan study of a small thangka -- a canvas scroll painting that I purchased during a 2007 visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. Thangkas are created by anonymous (in this case, Tibetan) Buddhist monk-artists as both a record ...