Today’s photo didn’t require the breaking of any laws, but it was a bit sneaky how I came about it. In the Hilton Hotel to the west of Union Square I took the elevator to the 44th floor. During the day you can’t go to the 46th floor where the Cityscape Bar and Restaurant opens in the evening, and a special key is required for the 45th floor. From the 44th floor I walked up the stairs to Cityscape and found I was the only one there.

This panorama of San Francisco isn’t what you can see by looking out any one window. I took 5 photos looking out one side of the building and 6 more pics from a different side and then photomerged them all together to achieve this 200 degrees or so of panorama.

Posted on November 25th, 2012 under Other. Tags: Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, Nikon D600, panorama, photomerge, photoshop, san francisco. Comments Off on Panorama of San Francisco from Cityscape Bar and Restaurant on the 46th floor of the Hilton

We did a little hiking in the mountains near Mt. Shasta in California this past weekend. In today’s photo (covering about 180 degrees) you can see Castle Lake, Heart Lake (lower left corner partially obscured by trees), Black Butte, and (on the far right) Castle Crags.

Posted on August 21st, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, castle lake, landscape, mt. shasta, nikon d7000, panorama, photomerge, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Mt. Shasta wilderness panorama

On the north side of the Columbia University campus there is a nice view of W 120th Street from this perch. I photomerged a half dozen photos, taken just before a summer lightning storm, to come up with the above image.

On the far left is The Riverside Church. Moving right from there is Union Theological Seminary, then Teacher’s College directly across the street, and to the right is Whittier Hall.

Posted on July 14th, 2012 under Other. Tags: clouds, columbia university, new york, nikon d7000, panorama, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on West 120th Street, New York City

View from Metropolitan Museum of Art roof garden

Today’s panorama of Manhattan is a photomerge of about 10 images. I didn’t intend for this to happen, nor did I notice it until I returned home from New York and looked through some of my photos, but the lady in the foreground on the far left moved between the time I took the first picture and the last pic so that she appears on both ends (in the background on the right) of this panorama! This photomerge covers nearly 300 degrees of mostly Central Park.

Posted on July 3rd, 2012 under Other. Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, new york, nikon d7000, panorama, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Panorama from the roof of The Met

Wide angle view from Fenway Park, Loge Box 157, Row BB

Today’s photo is a photomerge of more than half a dozen photos taken from the seat I previously mentioned here. This would have been a great seat, had there not been people (fans, ushers, and vendors) walking in front of me constantly. There were very few pitches in which I could see both the pitcher and the batter and quite a few pitches in which I couldn’t see either.

It’s tough to tell, given the wide angle of the lens coupled with a photomerge in Photoshop of numerous pics, but David Ortiz is the batter against Ricky Romero. Big Papi hit his 399th career home run in this game as Romero was roughed up for just his second loss (eight victories) on the season.

Posted on June 29th, 2012 under Other. Tags: baseball, boston, ellie, fenway park, nikon d7000, panorama, photoshop, ryan, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Fenway Park panorama