Looking at this painting "Portrait of a Young Man, 1507" by Albrecht Dürer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum I suddenly noticed the eyes.

The light in the eyes of the paintings, a tiny study of reflection, of light sources in the eyes of the subjects...

It made me think. And then …

GigaPan

The Gigapan process involves taking multiple overlapping pictures and then processing them together to create one large high resolution image.

I have a page showing all of my Gigapan images currently on the Gigapan.com site.

(I wrote a bit of Python/Django code to connect with the Gigapan …

Aging street punk sits on the sidewalk on a grate, on his jacket or a dirty rag.

Hard to tell. I've seen him before most days

Familiar stranger, more stranger than familiar

He's playing with a rat. He smiles at the rat.

The rat walks up and down his arms …

Arcimboldo's works Flora and Flora meretrix are on display at the Kunsthistorisches museum, so I have been experimenting with hand help multi image captures.

Here is an article about the exhibit in Vienna.

Here is an interesting article about the works, and their frames. [caption id="attachment_15452" align="alignleft" width …

Each year NASA sends groups of teams to the Desert to test equipment and techniques which may be useful for extraterrestrial exploration. In April 2010 I got to go to the San Francisco Volcanic field to take Gigapan photos of potential exploration sites for that summer's DRATS tests. It was …

Playing Geologist - Gigapanning Volcanos in Arizona

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Each year NASA sends groups of teams to the Desert to test equipment and techniques which may be useful for extraterrestrial exploration. In April 2010 I got to go to the San …