Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

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A Winter Desert Panorama

The first day out on our recent winter cruise, we camped in the RV Resort in Twentynine Palms, California. When we woke up on Christmas Eve, we unhooked from the camp and headed into the Joshua Tree National Park north entrance.

It was a perfect day to see the park in wintertime. There were patches of snow here and there and the mountains surrounding the drive had a nice dusting of snow. At one point, we stopped at a scenic point where I took several images to later be stitched into a composite panorama.

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Image: Looking South and Southwest toward the Coachella Valley. Click 4 big.

We’re thinking about heading back to Twentynine Palms and back through the park in the springtime when the flowers will all be in bloom. The park was almost named “Wildflower,” but “Joshua Tree” won in the end.

09 Jan 2009 by Environment Panorama Travel

Range Report

We had an interesting and fun time today at the range. At first, it was pretty busy, with most of the lanes occupied with shooters. Later, business seemed to taper off a bit with just us and one other booth occupied. I guess that folks were home watching wild card football playoffs or something.

I snapped three images of the sparsely occupied range and stitched them together to make this panoramic image. Because she moved between the second and third snapshots, Damsel appears to be two people. Click for full-size.

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Shooting was great today. We each shot about 100 rounds of .45s using the Glock 30 and the Warthog – which had NO misfeeds today. We also shot a couple of boxes of 9mm through the Glock 26 and S&W 908s. We even shot about 35 rounds of .38 special with Damsel’s S&W 686. To top it off, we shot 25 rounds each of 20 and 12 gauge with the Remington 870s.

We both agree it was a pretty good day of shooting.

Update: Thanks to Robb Allen for his link to this article.

04 Jan 2009 by Panorama Shooting

Catalina Channel – 180° View

After a horrible three weeks on Wall Street and another demoralizing day today (especially for conservatives), I’m going to just say woooo saaaaah and divert my creativity to these nerdy panoramas. In the top image, on October 11th, I stood at Del Cerro Park near the top of San Pedro Hill on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and snapped eight separate images in sequence from left to right. I used the Canon Zoom Browser Photo Stitch utility to assemble this 180 degree view of the Catalina Channel on a nice clear day.

Channel Panorama

The second image is an experiment – The normal mode for panoramas is to center the horizon vertically in the image and pan the camera. I wanted to get a panorama of the coastline from Del Cerro and to get the foreground to blend into the picture as well. I am pretty pleased with the results I got. I took the series by trying to keep the horizon ‘horizontal’ in the viewfinder. I took six such images going from left to right. I had to post-process the pictures using a parallel scan setting on the stitch tool to get this ‘fish-eye’ sort of panoramic rendering. Both the foreground and the distance are rendered in perspective – just the effect I wanted to get.

Del Cerro Overlook

Click on either of these images to view them in the image viewer.

15 Oct 2008 by California Panorama

A Look Back to Catalina

Damsel took a lot of photos last Saturday when the air was exceptionally clear here in Southern California. We spent quite a lot of time shooting photos along the coastline, but when it came time to climb back over the hill to our side, we stopped at a scenic overlook and took this panoramic look back towards the coastline and Catalina Island in the distance. Click for the full-size panoramic image in the viewer.

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13 Oct 2008 by California Panorama Travel

Canyonlands Panorama

These bizarre towers sculpted by nature are in South Canyonlands National Park. This canyon is the trailhead for the hike to the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, just about five miles from this Southern Utah location. At the far right extremity of this panorama, you can see the Damsel as she prepares to set up for her next photographic masterpiece.

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Click to view in the image viewer full-size.

04 Oct 2008 by Panorama Travel

Watching the Palin Speech

I’m busy enjoying Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the RNC. I didn’t think anything could top Fred’s speech last night, but Rudy’s giving it a go.

Meanwhile, while we will be watching Sarah Palin, you can enjoy this nice panoramic view of Damsel looking into Canyon de Chelly . . .

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Click to see the panorama full size.

03 Sep 2008 by Campaign Panorama

Mather Point – A Grand Canyon Panorama

On the south side of the Colorado River, the panorama at Mather Point extends from the lower end of Garden Creek taking in some of the Bright Angel Trail, over the deep canyon of Pipe Creek and eastwards to Cedar Ridge/O’Neill Butte, along which runs the South Kaibab Trail starting from the next point to the east – Yaki. Some of the Tonto Trail is also in view, near Pipe Creek. On the North Rim, the vista is centered on the long, straight Bright Angel Creek, flowing for 10 miles between a collection of tall red buttes and other ravines.

Text above borrowed from American Southwest dot net.

I took this photo from the trail between Mather point and the Grand Canyon Village. You can see a throng gathered on the point at the far right end of the panorama. Click on the image to see the full size image in the viewer.

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22 Aug 2008 by Panorama Travel

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