On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (26)
beachzz
Wow, Bill, this is beautiful!! What a great job you did stitching these together!! I love the whole look, the windmill, the fence; it's all so classic!!
auntietk
Wow ... what a tidy place! Great idea for a pano, and it turned out beautifully!
durleybeachbum
All that tidiness is a bit freaky! Great pano.
CavalierLady
This is very lovely, Bill!! You did a great job on the pano stitching and the warm rich color really shows off this tidy little farm! Well done!
skipper62
Great composition. Looks more like a horse farm than the "working" farm. Show horses, maybe a Derby winner. Beautiful place.
anahata.c
lol, Andrea, about the tidiness! yeah, it is very neat & clean, as you suggest. But a beautiful panorama, seamless, and I don't know the technical name but it's almost as if you used that lens configuration that flattens space so that the back space seems slightly vertical. The fence is very vivid full size, and because of your pov, it's really the ambassador who takes us through the shot. And the sky is big an bold too. Big spacious & roaming shot, and I love the pre-spring browned grass and that lone windmill in the distance. I'm heading off to the house now...
debbielove
Hand held! Well, I'm impressed! VERY impressed. As for the focusing. In my humble view it's best with the fence mainly in focus and farmhouse slightly out. Gives it that DOF (Depth Of Focus). A really fine and indeed EPIC work. Rob.
moonrancher
Fence the ambassador. Well said and I agree with the comment. The grass is beautiful, too. It looks trimmed. Superb work all around.
GBCalls
Very cool find! Excellent
timtripp
Excellent Image!
PD154
Great results for hand held Bill, the wonders of cs4 eh?...I have not tried a pano with the Canon yet, you inspire me my friend.
kenmo
Your panorama is beautiful....!!!!
sema_fox
Good panorama!
drace68
Neat work for hand held. In similar no-tripod situations, try putting your jacket on the roof of your vehicle, bunch it up, and shoot. (Uh, engine off, please.)
MagikUnicorn
Lovely Panorama
sandra46
Great pic! I visited Kansas some years ago, and I believe it is wrongly underrated as a tourist place!
SouthBeachPhoto
Great pano! Yes, the DOF could be deeper, but it's still a cool photograph!
kansas
A wonderful pano view. Looks perfect to me.
npauling
You can see so much more with a panorama and I think you have made a great job of this lovely neat farm.
junge1
Great job Bill. I never use a tripod for panos. This place reminds me a little of the TV show 'Dallas'.
lyron
Fantastic panorama!!
fredster66
Great looking image!
goodoleboy
A panoramic view of the first water, Bill, with distinct clarity and detail throughout! Plus, pretty good hand-held quality, and you did a stellar job stitching together your photos, a process I've never tried myself.
Fred255
Well done good stitch. I feature I have never used.
mermaid
you did real well in handheld and stiching Bill, wish I could do it like that...smile... a very tidy place...do people still live there, cause there is no cattle nor people in sight
Rainastorm
What a capture...I love it...nice!