I bought a digital camera for Christmas 2000, and have enjoyed a revival of my photographic interests. I've been interested in panoramic photography for many years, we've accumulated a small collection of vintage panoramic photographs, ranging in subject from Niagara Falls to letter carriers in front of the Minneapolis Post Office in 1937. I was absolutely delighted to discover the Panorama Factory shareware, which allows me to make my own panoramic photos with my digicam. Here are some of my results.
If you like any of these enough to put up in your home, I'd be flattered and happy to sell you a copy. Email me for further information.
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This is a panorama of the street in front of Wall Drug in Wall, SD, taken in July 2001 while on a family trip. What a tourist trap, and way more crowded than the beautiful Badlands. We both hated the place. So I decided to nuke the sky. It's much more interesting this way, dontcha think?
These pictures are from the old coastal defense batteries located in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco. I found the old emplacements to be stimulating subjects for panoramic photography.This is Battery Mendel. To get to these batteries you have to drive up into the Headlands and beyond the first set of batteries. These batteries are all near the lighthouse, I think it's Point Bonita Lighthouse.
This is Battery Wallace. There is another emplacement right next to Wallace, I don't remember the name. Interesting thing about these, they were originally built as open gun emplacements, but were covered over to provide some protection from aerial attack. Nowadays you can't tell there wasn't always a hill over them.
Battery Mendel again...
This is a sunset over San Francisco Bay, shot from the parking lot at Coit Tower.
These pictures were shot in summer 2001 at the Mid-South Air Show in Millington TN. I've loved airshows since I was a kid, and now my son enjoys them too, as long as we take earplugs.
