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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Cottage InnSo in the process of stitching the images together to make the panorama of yesterday's image there are a nuber of stages along the way. (Or, to be technical for the cartographers out there, different projections). Taking the flat images to represent a spherical view of the world and then projecting them back on to your flat monitor is not unlike making a flat map out of the round globe. Of course, along the way there is room for a little bit of creativity.California 107 | cloud 46 | fence 3 | High Dynamic Range Image 15 | ocean 61 | Pacific 18 | Pismo Beach 4 | sky 47 | view 4 | water 53 | wave 21 |
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Friday, April 4, 2008
Cottage InnWell, there were some technical difficulties with publishing to the site so I'm sorry for the wait! I have quite a few images that should be posted in the near future, but with several big projects and tax day (what fun!) it has been hard to get to the maintenance of my site.A few days ago we were in Pismo Beach for a project. When I went out to get breakfast the morning fog was just breaking up. I thought about skipping breakfast to take pictures, but I finally thought better of it so I would have some energy for the drive home. (Besides they have REALLY good waffles.) The timing was perfect though. This was right after breakfast. All of the clouds in this shot are actually wispy remnants of the morning costal fog. They are almost close enough that you could reach out and touch them. Not 20 minutes later the fog was back thicker than ever. California 107 | cloud 46 | fence 3 | High Dynamic Range Image 15 | ocean 61 | Pacific 18 | panorama 14 | panoramic 14 | Pismo Beach 4 | sky 47 | view 4 | virtual reality 7 | water 53 | wave 21 |
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Monday, March 5, 2007
Pismo Beach SunsetClick for a bigger imageIt's not really the most popular time of year to go to the beach around here. But, then most people are not crazy photographers. (thank heavens!) Ya don't get sunsets like this in the summer around here. The flowers in the center are Japanese Irises, on the right is a bird of Paradise. |
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Sunday, February 6, 2005
Dollars in the SandI have seen a few sand dollars in my life but this was the first time I ever saw live ones. There were a few burying themselves right in the middle of the beach where everyone walks, so we moved them to a more secluded area in a tide pool.These guys are related to sea urchins and star fish, and the way you can tell they are alive is the small spines move like waves. Unless they are frightened, then they play dead. Of course, there was no doubt with most of these. We could actually watch them trying to bury themselves. When I was searching Google to find out a little more information about them it was interesting to see that the majority of sites referring to live sand dollars were talking about how to kill and clean them. I'm thinking more people need to invest in cameras. :0) There were a few good sites however...
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