Tuesday, April 13, 2004

I went to two locations to shoot panoramas on the spring equinox (March 20th, 2004). The first was the summit at St. Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve. I have not scanned that scene yet. Then I drove along the coast from Santa Cruz north and finally settled on the San Mateo coastside around the Pigeon Point Light Station as my locale, I shot a number of panoramas over about 5 hours while waiting for the sun to come out, but it never did. The ones which did not make the WWP cut are viewable here. Every other time I've seen the lighthouse, the light was functioning, so I was hoping for a opportunity to try to get the lighthouse light in a shot, but it was not functioning while I was there. Later I found out the lighthouse has been closed for some time due to two 350 pound pieces of the cornice falling off the superstructure. The lighthouse was in the news around the time of the WWP--ownership was transferred from the Coast Guard to State Parks. 7:11:58 AM

A WWP announcement from Don: A month ago Don Bain and Landis Bennett suggested a coordinated VR panorama shoot on the day of the Equinox, March 20. The World Wide Panorama web site is a very democratic statement - anyone who wanted to participate and managed to generate a useable panorama was included. Many of the leading professional VR photographers also participated, contributing images of consumate craft and artistry. In all there are 180 photographers represented on the site, from 39 countries. The World Wide Panorama was sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility, University of California Berkeley. It is hosted as part of the Geo-Images Project. 7:04:16 AM

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