As I mentioned in my last post, I managed to get a few good shots while in Yosemite during the Thanksgiving week. Here is the second shot I have finished up. Please click the "Read More..." link below for a bit more information.

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Last week, we packed our car up and headed off to Yosemite for a long overdue vacation. I managed to get a couple of photographs taken while I was there that I am pretty happy with.

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Another outstanding source of information. This time for the San Diego fires. This map comes courtesy of KPBS in San Diego. Click on the link below the map for a larger view of the map.


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One of the fires currently out of control in Southern California is about 5 miles directly north from our home. Called the Santiago Fire, it was started by an arsonist. The Orange County Register is maintaining an outstanding Google Map of the fire's progress. What's more, each of the points denoted on the map provides a wealth of information.


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Many thanks to the OC Register for maintaining this great source of information.

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As a Southern California native, I have seen my share of fires, but this year is different. Every year it is the same week -- the week before Halloween. As of this writing, there are 16 major fires burning in Southern California, all fueled by some of the driest weather I can remember, coupled by 90+ degree temperatures and of course, very strong Santa Ana winds (in excess of 80 mph gusts in some areas).
The closest fire to us, the Santiago fire, is about 10 miles due north from us and was started yesterday early evening by an arsonist.

Below is a Google Map maintained by the Orange County of all the active fires.


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And after the jump (click "read more..." below), you can see an amazing image captured by a NASA satellite today of Southern California. Read More...

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I got a few more panoramic photos posted this morning. These three include two cubic images -- meaning, these images have a full 360 x 180 degree display. Not only can you pan left and right, but also up and down. And they really look good full screen too.



Here is the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image was created using six photographs shot with a fisheye lens. Four horizontal shots (each at 90 degree increments) one pointing straight up and one straight down. Each of the images was handheld (as opposed to using a tripod and a pano head).

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Tags: photography, qtvr, panoramic, travel, florida, california, orange county

Cook’s Corner - Trabuco Canyon, California: April 2007

Cook’s Corner is a “biker bar” tucked away in a small corner of Orange County California (yeah, the OC) where folks come out to show off their bikes. At any point in time, you’ll find over 50 immaculately painted, shining bikes that would make the guys at OC Choppers impressed. But something tells me, the day jobs these road hog riders require them to wear suits and ties.

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Chateau Cheneceau - Loire Valley, France: April 2002

Five days after our neighborhood nearly burned down, we found ourselves in the Loire Valley. This is one of the first panoramic photographs I took using a digital SLR. And it is still one of my favorites too.

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For the third time, I have contributed to the World Wide Panorama effort. This project is coordinated by the Geo-Images Project at the University of California, Berkeley. On the equinox or solstice, photographers from around the world are encouraged to take a panoramic photograph and contribute it to this project. Each project has a theme by which the photographers are to interpret as they see fit, and contribute accordingly. Click on the world image above to go straight to the Water (the current theme) website. When you get there, each of of the "pin points" is actually the exact location where each of the panoramic photographs was taken. Purty cool.

To see my contribution, click "Read More..." below.

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Tags: panoramic, san clemente, california, orange county