After looking off the lookout I showed a couple of posts ago, believe it or not, we had to keep climbing in order to go down. We figured the 'sketchy Inukshuk paths' were finished, but alas, this was not the case. Here was the path heading up:
Here is a link to a panorama of the top of this peak, Mount Xalibu. Zoom in using the "+"/"-" buttons on the bottom right and then scroll around to your hearts content!
Here are the last two landscape images from this weeks trials with the 7D. The first image below was one that I was really excited to get back and edit up. It is an HDR focused on the leaf and I just love how it turned out. The second image is a Panorama from the Gatineau (left) to Ottawa (right) from that same island that I've been mentioning lately.
For those of me that follow my photography, you may have guessed by now that I am addicted to HDR photography. This post is one of the few that are not littered with HDR images. In fact, I would dare say that this is the first post where I present to you three different panorama images! The first one is the one of the views from the National Historic Site of Louisbourg, the second is the view of the coast from the site of the Louisbourg lighthouse (away from the lighthouse ... obviously), and finally the third is of the Louisbourg lighthouse and the Atlantic in the distance. Be patient with me over the weekend (and maybe into Monday) since you have a few days of Lighthouse images to come!
This is very much a trial post. I have been really trying to find a way to display my panoramic images other than as a long annoying band of image. I find that it just didn't do justice to the amount of information in an image like this. I found this website, CleVR, which seems to do what I want. What should happen is that the panorama below should load up and you are given a few controls. First you should click on the "zoom out" button a couple of times to show a little bit more of the image at once. I find that it works the best at about one or two stops short of fully zoomed out. When you put the cursor over the image and it gives you a hand you should be able to click and drag in the direction you want to look. At fully zoomed out there are are a couple of spots that look distorted in the corners, at one level zoomed in there are vertical lines, and at two levels zoomed in you start to get degraded image quality. Although it is not perfect is the best option I've found to date. Let me know if you know of any better way of doing something like this!
This is a 9 image panorama taken from the top of Pike's Peak. From 14,115 ft you can see Colorado Springs below, the Garden of the Gods, the Barr Trail (the 13 mile trail leading up the mountain), and technically the wide open space in the distance is Kansas! Although I didn't take the hike up, it was more than worth the trip to the top.
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