Category Archives: panorama

Instagram Photo Blog

June 15, 2018artwork, Clouds, flowers, hiking, instagram, panorama, photography, travel, trees, video, wordsart, hashtags, instagram, life, photography, photos, poetry, wordsscrambler27

Thought I’d alert all my Rich’s Rambles followers to my new Instagram photo blog. I have been posting about 1 image a day with a bit of text and hashtags. Have a look-see. Here’s a screenshot of the last few images I posted.

Instagram screen shot

Enjoy,

Rich

Tucson Rambles

May 22, 2018flowers, hiking, panorama, photography, travelBlackett's Ridge, desert, desert washes, flowers, hiking, landscapes, macros, panoramas, photography, prickly pear, saguaro cacti, sunshine, Tohono Chul, travel, tucson, vacation, vitamin D, Wassan Mtscrambler27

This past March we spent a week in Tucson to get some vitamin D sunshine! And it was J’s first trip to the desert, ever! We went on a couple of hikes, went to the amazing Kartchner Caverns, went to a desert botanical garden and bistro, Tohono Chul, and just hung out drinking tea at The Scented Leaf, where I picked up some nice green tea to take home.

Unfortunately, they don’t let you take pictures at Kartchner Caverns except on certain days and then you have to pay a lot of $$ so I don’t have anything to show you from our walk in the caves there but we did go to a great Mexican restaurant for lunch in a town close by. We asked the Cavern staff where to go and the woman said “Lucky for you that I’m a total foodie and you have to go to this hole in the wall place, Mi Casa Restaurant, in Benson. So we went and were not disappointed. It’s literally a Mom and Pop place; she cooks, he waits the tables. The food was great and we were satiated and happy.

We also “lounged” through an evening at Gates Pass to watch the sunset. Again, just perfect. I have lots of great shots from the trip; here’s just some of my favourites. Hope you enjoy. (Hint: click on a photo to see the full size image)

Panoramas

A Bit Prickly

mountain-city pano-1 — Overlooking Tucson

Wassan Pk hike pano-3 — Down the Valley on Blackett’s Ridge trail

Sunset in the Pass — Sunset glow on peaks in Gates Pass with full moon.

Cacti and other flowers

Keep on Rambling,

Rich

Panoramas Continued

February 28, 2018artwork, Clouds, Coquitlam, hiking, panorama, photography, Port Moody, trees, waterart, Coquitlam, landscapes, panoramas, photographs, Port Moody, reflections, trees, waterscrambler27

Since my last post about panoramas, I’ve made several more that I really like. This post I’ll focus (pun intended) 🙂 on ones from my local neighbourhood. I’ve also made it so you can click on each of the images and see them up close and personal in a new window. Without being too conceited, I think you’ll enjoy the extra details you can see in the larger versions! I always do.

First, one I stitched together from 2 photos taken in July from a walk at DeBoughville Slough with J and my sister, in Coquitlam, BC.

DeBoville Slough and Mts — Looking NE up the Pitt River at the Golden Ears Mt massif in the background. Golden Ears Mt is centre-left and Blanshard Needle is is the pointy one almost dead centre.

Next, a pano taken in October, from 2 photos taken with my LG5 phone camera on the the Bluffs above Admiralty Point in Belcarra Park, Port Moody, BC.

Belcarra Bluffs pano-1 — Looking West down the Burrard Inlet past Vancouver in the distance.

Another October stitch, from 7 photos taken from a hike to the White Rock viewpoint in Coquitlam. If you look at the centre land features in this one, you can see the same hill and towers and point of land you saw in the previous picture. This is up higher and a more expansive view. Vancouver Island way in the distance.

White Rock Viewpoint pano — Looking South and West. You can see city of Vancouver, Burnaby, and Richmond. Also SFU on Burnaby Mt in left mid-ground.

Here’s one I made from a 3 photos one cloudy December morning while walking around the inlet. I’m on the North side shooting South. Another set with the LG5.

Looking South from the Shoreline Trail along the Inlet in Port Moody, BC — Clouds and trees and water

Not perfect but it made Explore on Flickr with almost 6 thousand views and that is saying something!

One from Maple Beach on a January hike to Admiralty point. A stitch of 5 shots. It was a “dreary” day so black and white was the way to go here.

Sculpture at Maple Beach in Belcarra Park, a beach on the way to Admiralty Point.

Here’s one at the Rocky Point piers in February, looking North towards the mountains. 2 LG photos stitched to make this.

Rocky Pt Inlet and piers — Looking North at the Fannin range with Seymour Mt foremost.

Last but not least, 2 panoramas I made a few days ago during a walk around Buntzen Lake. It was cloudy, the lake was perfectly still and I was, as they say, in the right place at the right time. The first one is a composite of 4 shots.

Buntzen Lake panorama — Looking at part of Eagle Ridge from West shore of Buntzen Lake.

This second one is a stitch of 10 photos! That’s right, 10. It took a bit of processing time but was totally worth it. It also made Explore and as of the writing of this post, was about to break 7,000 views! As you might imagine, I’m very proud of this one.

Buntzen Lake panos — Reflection of the whole of Eagle ridge in Buntzen Lake.

So there you have it, my latest local panorama compositions. Can’t really call them photos because they are always put together from at least 2 and often more, captures. Hope you enjoyed the show.

Keep rambling,

Rich

Cloud on the Inlet

December 7, 2017Clouds, hiking, Oceans, panorama, Park, photography, physical activity, Port Moody, trees, walkabout, waterClouds, exercise, fog, home, inlet, inspiration, moody, Orchard Beach, Park, photography, photos, PoMo, Port Moody, reflections, Rocky Point, walkscrambler27

I wanted to get in a good exercise walk today and when I looked out my window, I saw that there was a cloud sitting on the inlet. It was pretty cold, front steps were icy and slippery, but it was going to be a sunny day as there was sun everywhere else so I figured it would either be a walk in total fog with no views or the sun might burn it off.

Got in the car and motored down the hill to corner of Moody and St John’s. Parked there and walked the rest of the way to Rocky Pt park and continued around the inlet as planned.

I was not disappointed! Although on the way to my turn around at Orchard Beach, all the boardwalks were frosted and slippery, on the way back, most of them had defrosted as the sun did come out. And there was opportunity for some spectacular images, IMHO.

So here you go. Enjoy