Hans Nyberg has combined high-res scans of photos taken on the Apollo missions with modern digital image processing techniques to create scrollable, zoomable 360ยบ panoramas of the lunar landing sites. Requires a recent version of QuickTime, and I’m sure they’ll take forever to load on slow internet connections, but it’s well worth it in my opinion.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Greetings from snow country
So apparently winter is really here. I’ve basically been stuck at home for the last day and a half, since we’ve been under a snow emergency and work’s been closed. It seems like things should be getting pretty well cleared up tomorrow though.
I’ve got a better image (in my opinion) in the pipeline but it’s not quite done yet. In the mean time, here’s one from the same shoot. It’s not from this blizzard (I wasn’t about to head out to the park today; digging my truck out once was plenty, thanks) but it was pretty darn cold out when I shot it.
No Swimming
Pinnacle Peak
Here’s another one from my summer on Mt. Rainier. Specifically, this was taken on Pinnacle Peak, though not at the actual peak, because I didn’t want to die that day. I was climbing along a rocky ridge as a bank of clouds moved in, and I decided that rather than risk falling off the peak somewhere in the fog ahead, I would just take a picture of this tree and head back down. It’s got fog, it’s got rocks, and it’s got a dead tree, which sound to me like three ingredients for a decent black and white photo.
Sticks and Stones
I dug this one up because I needed something to hang in the hallway with my black and white shot of Mt. Rainier, and this one didn’t have much color in it to begin with. Of course, shocking as it is, the Walmart photo printers don’t quite give you what you want, so I’m going to have to play with it some more and try again.