Panopticon
Taken from the BT Tower (whose exact address was a state secret until 1993), this 320 gigapixel panoramic gives a fantastic view across London at an unparalleled resolution.
Pity about the weather.
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Manhattan From Above
Stills from a gigantic scrollable, zoomable, hi-res aerial of Manhattan around Central Park by Russian photographer Sergey Semenov. The shot earned him a 2012 Epson International Photographic Panorama Award.
Explore the whole thing at AirPano.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
Meanwhile, In The Gale Crater On Mars
EDS systems has assembled a hi-res panorama of the view from the Curiosity Rover (which has had its software updated and is due to start roving in about a week’s time).
Previously: Mars Panorama (the view from Curiosity’s predecessor, Opportunity)
Baggot Bridge Lunchtime Panorama
[Click to enlarge]
By the Grand Canal, Dublin, minutes ago.
Taken by Carlos Fandango
Galway: Looking Good
Gavin Hartigan writes:
A panoramic shot (click to enlarge) of the big top and cathedral last night. Lovely evening in Galway.
Meanwhile, In Kilmainham
Field Music at Forbidden Fruit. Lovely oul vibes. #FFFEST12 @broadsheet_ie twitter.com/bantamflush/st…
— Dave H (@bantamflush) June 4, 2012
Panorama here
Meanwhile…
What the mainstream press call ‘revellers’ at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, this afternoon at the last day of Forbidden Fruit.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
All Day And All Of The Night
A panoramic photograph created by compositing an entire 30-hour shoot at Sunnio in Greece. Photographer Chris Kotsiopoloulos stitched hundreds of separate images together to represent an entire rotation of the earth.
Link to a similar higher res version.
Related: Polar Panoramas.
“An Internet Troll. That’s What They Look Like”
It’s a little interwebegeddon but…
Nicolas writes:
BBC Panorama’s Declan Lawn manages to track down a troll in Cardiff that goes by the name of Nimrod Severn (real name Darren Burton) and specialises in leaving offensive comments on “RIP” pages on Facebook,
and tries to have a word with him. Everything goes as expected.
Time Well Wasted: Aerial Panoramas
AirPano is a site dedicated to high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. Moscow-based photographers Oleg Gaponyuk, Sergey Rumyantsev, and Sergey Semenov shoot aerial panoramas from helicopters, light jets, air balloons and radio-controlled helicopter models. So far they’ve created over 100 fully interactive 360º scrollers. You’ll lose yourself in there.
Above: Moscow City from the Capital’s City Building Complex – the highest tower in Europe.
