gigapan – Ruth E. Hendricks

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So WordPress decided to change the editor where one creates a new post and I just couldn’t see how it is any sort of an improved model. Perhaps it just takes some getting accustomed to the new format?

“No worries, just switch to classic mode” they reassured me at the top of the WordPress Page. I clicked.

And then when you click :PREVIEW the post from the classic mode, it then reverts to the New Editor, it does not stay in “classic mode”

Life is all about change and our ability to adapt to change, right?

But sometimes CHANGE is NOT an improvement.

(And what the heck is the BEEP BEEP BOOP someone created for the loading while you wait? Oh my)

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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming and I know talking about computer issues bores people.

MY SILHOUETTE GALLERY – You’ve seen a few of these before if you follow the blog

St. John at Cupples Field South Side

Looking up Murray Avenue

Family at Smith Mountain Lake

Hudson River Silhouettes

July Fireworks at The Lakes

Michael on the Zip Line

Maura at the Strawberry Farm

Bobbijo and Tim Wedding — Bobbijo and Tim
Wedding

Dinosaur Demolition (you’ve seen this one before)

Looking to New Jersey

Birds on a wire

Celeste as a bride last weekend. I was actually trying to get a good silhouette but it didn’t quite work out.

Winter trees in Highland Park

Gigapan Work on Mt. Washington

Semi Silhouette of Superman in Hardy Virginia

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: gigapan, HIghland Park, Hudson River, neighborhood, New York City, photography, Pittsburgh Photographer, postaday, silhouette, wedding photography, weekly photo challenge 26 Comments

Four Canon Digital SLR cameras shooting about 900 frames an hour ( with the kit lenses) mounted on gigapans and mounted on a long panel, attached to a tripod with a super duper car type battery-

and the results will make up a 10,000 frames which will be combined in a time lapse video. We will be able to see it at some point!

-and here is the story how this came to be on the blog today.

After school I was hightailing it up to Mount Washington to do a shoot for an engaged couple. On the way up the mountain at the top, I saw some camera equipment and a huge tripod. The guy manning it started to wave to me and then jog to keep up with my car as I slowed to a red light atop Grandview Ave. It was a former teacher of mine, Dror Yaron, now at Carnegie Mellon. I had taken one of his early Gigapan classes at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. {Here is the link to one of the gigapans I shot in 2008.}

I said , “I have to go shoot an engaged couple at the Duquesne Incline platform”, and he said, “Stop back here after that.”

As it turned out the couple couldn’t make it and so I parked close to the spot Dror was and walked down the sidewalk of McArdle Roadway, high above the Monongahela River.

In a few minutes the Senior Systems Scientist Randy Sargent and another CMU Robotics team member Anne Wright (forgive me Anne I didn’t get your title but remembered the “e”) arrived on the scene.

Randy had been there since 5 AM and planned to shoot until 11 PM. Oh my.

It was really cold, too. They were taking turns with the equipment. Later on I returned at 10 during the Steelers game just to document the commitment to the project. Randy had donned the ski gloves at that point.

I asked Randy about what he wanted to do when he was a child and he said he always liked to build things. EVERYTHING. Not just lego but pieces of scrap lumber from construction sites. I find that interesting how people are guided on a path to their current work.