A narrow section of Angel Cove Canyon
Another panorama from Angel Cove canyon – here is a panorama of a narrow section of Angel Cove Canyon. The lighting was pretty cool when I was in this section.
The tripod was set up pretty low when I took these. I set it up because I saw some cool shots from that lower angle. It wasn’t until I stitched this that I realized that a 360×180 taken from such a low perspective gives kind of a leprechaun’s-eye-view of the surroundings. In this case, I think it works out pretty well.
Tags: angel cove, canyoneering, panorama, Photography
Panorama of the final rappels of Angel Cove
Here is a Panorama of Angel Cove’s Final Rappels. I did it this saturday with Chris Raver, his friend Brad, and my wife’s three younger brothers.
The final two rappels consist of back-to-back rappels off of natural anchors. (You can see the second pile of rocks that starts the second rappel if you look down a bit)
As you can see, the canyon opens up quite wide for these final two rappels. As you set up, you have a nice view of the other side of the Dirty Devil river. It’s in this general area that Butch Cassidy and other outlaws would hang out in the late 1800′s.
Tags: angel cove, canyoneering, dirty devil, panorama, Photography
Flash-floods feed the Dirt Devil
Click on the image to view the panorama in your browser. As always, you can zoom in and out and pan around.
This weekend I visited Capitol Reef National Park with family for on Friday, and then on Saturday I went out to a remote area near Hanksville and did Angel Cove canyon with my wife’s younger brothers.
We picked the canyon with the chance of afternoon thunderstorms in mind because it is a relatively short canyon (some refer to it as a “Micro Slot”) taking only 3 to 6 hours and only having between 5 to 7 rappels in the canyon. As we exited the canyon it started to sprinkle on us, and as we neared the top of a slickrock dome the clouds opened up and it started to pour. From the moment it started raining heavily until the time we started to see trails of water was mere minutes, and it was between 10 to 20 minutes from when the rain started getting heavy to when we were able to see a number of drainages fill up and start flowing.
After watching the waterfalls for a minute or two, I could no longer resist the temptation to get out there and capture it as best I could. Working fast and in pretty bad conditions I set up and took a 20-image 260-degree single-row panorama of the area. Water spots and drops on my lens were unavoidable given the conditions (blowing heavy rain coming from every direction as the winds shifted around) – but I was able to have enough overlap between my images that I could get rid of all the waterspots in the final image.
If you are asking yourself “Gee, this is cool… but why not a 360×180?” allow me to let you ponder what happens when you try to shoot a camera at any angle greater than 0 degrees when it is raining… There simply was no way I could have shot one until after the storm had passed, and these waterfalls are as quick to disappear as they are to appear so I wanted to make sure I caught them. They did stick around for a little while and I could have gotten a slightly better shot after the rain let up – but after putting the weather resistance of the 7D to the test with the downpour I subjected it to, my camera had earned itself a bit of a break. (That, and condensation was starting to get to it so I pulled the battery to help prevent it from getting damaged)
The resolution of the final image is 19171 x 5356. If I were to print this out on 17-inch wide paper, it would be 5-feet long at full 300-dpi resolution. I stitched and retouched it at full resolution. If anyone reading this wants to buy a print that size, let me know and we can work something out. I know some places I can print them that big – but you’ll be on your own for framing it! 
Tags: canyoneering, dirty devil, flash flood, panorama, Photography, rain, sandstone, waterfall
We stopped briefly in Goblin Valley to try to let the morning storms move away from the area the next canyon we wanted to do. While there, I took this panorama. It’s constructed of 117 images – 3 exposures each at 39 different angles. The 32-bit photoshop file after stitching them together was 2.15 GB.
Click on the image to view the (large) panorama
I went to great lengths to stitch this one in a higher resolution than the Moroni Slopes panorama, only to find out after spending all that extra time to do it at a higher resolution that the flash player I’m using has a lower max resolution that I was working with. Oh well.
- High Resolution Goblin Valley Panorama (Recommended – but it might take a few seconds to load)
- High Resolution QTVR Goblin Valley Panorama(This one is the highest resolution available, but you have to have a QuickTime VR viewer to see it)
- Lower Resolution Goblin Valley Panorama
- Lower Resolution QTVR Goblin Valley Panorama
I recommend the higher resolution flash player, or the highest resolution QTVR image. You can zoom in on the images (more so on the higher resolution ones) to see more detail, or zoom out to see more of the scene.
You can also see the Panorama of storms over the San Rafael Swell I took from Moroni Slopes earlier that morning.
My brother-in-laws are visiting for a little while, and Aubrey encouraged me to take them through a canyon. (Well, by “encouraged” I think she might have just asked me if I wanted to… which I took as giving me permission to leave without feeling guilty about leaving her home with the kids…)
We were planning to do the Squeeze in the San Rafael Swell, but the weather didn’t cooperate. By the time we reached the base of Moroni Slopes, the storm clouds were already forming and moving around the sky. I captured a 360×180 panorama while we were there.
Moroni Slopes panorama
- Flash-Player based view of High Resolution Moroni Slopes Panorama (Recommended)
- High Resolution QuickTime VR Moroni Slopes
- Flash-based view of Low resolution Moroni Slopes panorama
I took a Goblin Valley panorama that I have also posted.
Originally submitted at LIttle Tikes
Toys Made in the USA with US and Imported Parts.
The excitement never ends with this innovative, multi-station fun factory!
- Gears and gadgets,…
Looks much cooler on the box
Pros: Sturdy
Cons: Boring, doesn’t work
Best Uses: Individual Play
Describe Yourself: Parent Of Two Or More Children
The sandbox looks pretty cool, but obviously nobody ever tested it out before deciding to sell it.
Even on day 1 the sprockets / spinny things / whatever never worked. Water and sand just pour over them and they never spin.
As a sandbox it isn’t horrible.
Oh, I almost forgot about the water part. Yeah, that sucks too. It leaks and we’ve basically been using ours as a sandbox on both sides for about a year or so now.
(legalese)
It’s pointless to pick a winner based on pictures of contestants for season of survivor. To keep with tradition we’ll still pick winners. Nobody would pick Sugar or Stephanie anyway, so we haven’t lost out on anything by doing it now.
Make your picks, and think as little as possible please.
Tags: Survivor
Every year on Black Friday “Santa” flies in and lands at the mall. Here he is on approach. (I posted a few more images of the helicopter on flikr, and will post more when I get a chance)
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