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El Paso Panorama from Ranger Peak

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:53:43 +0000

This panorama was stitched from 9 photos of about 180 degrees. You can take an aerial tram from a parking lot to the peak for $7 and hike back down (or up if you’re nuts) in about 2 hours. It’s not the longest tram (that’s actually in Albuquerque), but it is a pleasant view. Off in the far distance is Juarez, Mexico.

A view from Ranger Peak in El Paso, Texas

PTGui panorama photostitcher

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:59:56 +0000

Most cameras come with a free photostitcher, but I use a commercial one called PTGui. Originally built around “panorama tools” (a free suite of programs and libraries), but has since relied on it’s own engines. It can stitch photo’s taken in a typical horizontal fashion, but also in a matrix (both horizontal and vertical). It will automatically match and blend them. A demo can be downloaded, but the actual price will be $119 for the personal version and $225 for the pro version (which includes batch processing and support for 64 bit windows and HDR images). I haven’t been able to justify the $110 difference (yet.) You get updates for 1 year after that the update (rather pricey, I thought) is $38 for standard PTGui and $68 for the pro version. Price aside, if you take a lot of photos of landscapes and such, take a look. I use it and recommend it. In fact, if you look for the tag panorama on by blog, you’ll see a fair amount of pictures using PTgui

Corrales, New Mexico

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:10:55 +0000

Corrales is a village about 10 miles northwest of Albuquerque. The main street area is basically small art shops and restaurants. As you go west from the main street you get up into the west mesa. That’s were this panorama is from, specifically from my niece-in-laws house. Again This panorama is produced with PTGui.

Corrales, New Mexico

The mountains in the distance are the Sandia mountains that are visable anywhere in the Albuquerque area. You can’t get lost if you tried; the mountains are always in the east.

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge Pictures

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:31 +0000

The Sevilleta National Wild Refuge is about 50 miles south of Albuquerque. The river you see is the Rio Grande. You can’t see them, but there are some ducks along the bank.

Rio Grande Bosque

both pictures are panoramas stitched with PTGui