Still Working on the Pano Project

Mater Dolorosa Cemetery, ironically next to Happy Days Conference Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Tried to catch the solemn peace of this very old country cemetery.

Chased these clouds over most of Portage County - they were huge and dramatic. Best I could do without peril to life and limb was Plum Creek Park in Kent

I am ready to bean Mama and Baby Groundhog. Acres of stuff to eat, and they have to scale the rabbit fence to eat all the leaves and buds from the sunflowers and dahlias. Grrrrr.

Mixed Bag of Panoramas, July 12 - 14

Lost the light on this one. Ten  minutes before, the clouds were lit up with the sunset. Just had to pull a few more weeds... Seven shots across.

Grandma Wilk's Spode Tower on the buffet. Looks like Alice in Wonderland. No amount of re-shoooting or adjustment made this one look normal. Subject too close to camera? Five shots.

I like this one best. The perspective is still kind of funky, but not bad for my little point-n-shoot. Four shots, full auto.

July 9, Clouds at Sunset; July 11, Cuyahoga Falls

Feeling lukewarmish about this one:

The 3 shot vertical panorama below was shot from the refurbished bridge at High Bridge Glens Park in Cuyahoga Falls. The waterfall at the old powerplant dam can be seen in the far distance.

Tall Ships, Cleveland Harbor, July 8. 2010

Broiling hot, but a great day for taking pictures. I met up with Marge and Gary  - we were saved from heat stroke by frozen lemonade. The ships were just gorgeous.  We went on a couple of them, the Europa and the Niagara. Don't know how the sailors took the heat in olden day - it was cramped and HOT below decks. The amount of rope on these ships is unbelievable. There were coils, knots, and rigging everywhere.

Below are some of the shots from the festival.

July 6, New Fairchild Ave. Bridge; July 7, Kurt and Cindy's Garden

This is the new bridge, shot from the rickety Crain Avenue bridge - I felt every vehicle rumbling over it, including bicycles. Three trains blasted by while I was shooting, very cool.

Got the tripod all set up, camera adjusted, when it kindly reminded me it had no memory card. Which, of course, it didn't, since the card was still stuck in my laptop from the previous night's download. So my half hour shoot was more like an hour and fifteen including a couple of round trips to the house.

7 shot panorama, and will be part of my Kent project.

Chuck and I went over to a friend's house tonight. He put new tubes in my bike, which was very nice of him. He and Cindy have a lovely garden. This is the wooded part, which Kurt's filled up with an amazing variety of carefully tended hostas. This is a 4-shot pano with a Virtual Photographer filter, "Radiant", applied. Kind of old-timey post card.

July 4 Pano - Graffiti; July 5 - Brandywine Falls

July 4, Graffiti: Started with seven shots - way too long and skinny. So I cropped it shorter, to include the McCartney quote. This is the retaining wall between Pufferbelly and the RR tracks, shot from the viewing platform on the old dam.

July 5, Brandywine Falls: Chuck's been a peach above the pano project - it was sizzling hot, and he cheerfully tramped down and up the 80 steps to the falls deck. This is 3 shots, bottom to top.

No panos from the 3rd, because it was the street festival and Kent fireworks. We were right under the fireworks - great view! Unfortunately, the camera caught the power lines in every single shot. Fun night anyway. Regina came down, we ate pitas at The Pita Pit, and some kettle corn, did some people-watching, and just generally had a good time.

July 2 Pano - Deck Pots

A 3-shot pano, taken on the upper deck.

July 2010: Pano Project

I wanted to do a picture of the day project for July, since photography has taken a back seat to pretty much everything else lately. Since I haven't worked much with panoramas, that seemed to be a good subject. This one is seven shots, exposure corrected, converted from raw to jpeg, then to a pano, and color corrected again. Location is the hunt field at Promise Land, at sunset - after a really nice ride on a cool, summer evening. July 1, 2010.