One of the things I had always meant to try was putting together some of those neat panorama photos that you often see. You know, the ones where you stand in one place and take multiple, overlapping photos of a scene around you. Then you stitch them together in your favourite photo editing software and make one gigantic photo out of each individual photo.
Over time, I had taken a lot of photos with the intention of stitching them together, but I never got around to actually assembling the images until recently. I'll have to dig through my photo archives to see what else I've taken that can be assembled, but here are a few of the recent ones I've done… (click through to view them on Flickr)
Sunset from Cranston
Downtown Calgary
It's been a little bit over a week since this happened and I just wanted to recount a recent experience we had in our neighbourhood.
On the evening of August 3rd, 2010, a recent Coronal Mass Ejection was going to hit the atmosphere. In an attempt to photograph some of the Aurora effects we were expected to see, I hit the road after midnight and headed a little bit south of the city. Unfortunately, nature conspired against this and it remained cloudy through the next hour and a half or so. Of course, it didn't really help that I could still see Calgary's light pollution from where I was. Disappointed that I couldn't get any cool Aurora shots, I headed home.
I got back somewhere between 01:30 and 02:00, realizing that I would be pretty run down for work the next day. As I was getting into bed, I heard these little crackling, popping noises coming from outside and shrugged them off as possibly kids setting off firecrackers or something. Then I heard a really loud BOOM and sat up thinking, "I … don't think that's a firecracker." I went to the windows wondering if I could see anything. Nothing out the front of the house, so I went to the back (looking northward), and saw an incredibly scary sight!
Cranston Fire IMG_0891
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