Majestic Falls Again
This is Majestic Falls, the main waterfall at McDowell Creek Falls county park.
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Frameless Pictures
When photographs are printed and hung on a wall, they often have a frame and a matte. Sometimes though, photographers, like other visual artists, choose to display their pictures without a frame – so-called “frameless” mounting. The picture here is an example of that. This example does have a solid side, but sometimes frameless mounts…
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Eagle Marsh
This is the Eagle Marsh lookout at the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge .
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Concepts | Essay | Museums | VR Photographs
VR Photography and Museums
For a recent 360 photography project, I took a VR photograph inside of an old, water-powered mill that has been turned into a state park: Thompson’s Mills in Shedd, Oregon. The purpose was to make a picture for the Worldwide Panorama Project quarterly theme of “Museums”. The picture here is a “little planet” view of…
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Consciousness and Spherical Photography
Previously I have written about how spherical photography can be a metaphor for looking around, and how it illustrates the value of doing so. There is no comparable way to change the view in standard photography, of course. However, we can still choose what part of a photograph to focus on. Generally, however, our eyes…
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Viewing Spherical Photos as Cylinders
Previously, I described an alternative way to represent pointers to spherical photos. Usually they are static online pictures, which works since a hyperlink can then send the viewer to the full, interactive picture. However, another possibility is to make the pointer a physical picture, printed out and maybe even hung on the wall. The same…
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New Ways to Engage With Spherical Photos
In an earlier essay, I talked about the different pieces of a spherical photograph experience. Here, I want to look at the static introduction image piece a little more closely. Spherical photos are inherently interactive because humans cannot see an entire sphere at one time without severely distorting the image. Before interacting with the image,…
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Spherical Photography as Metaphor
Spherical photographs provide rich ways of exploring remote locations and giving a “you are there” experience. But in addition to photographic value, they also offer an interesting metaphor for seeing our world more clearly. To understand how the metaphor might work, consider the following illustration.
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Spherical Photography
On this site, I will use the term “spherical photography” to refer to pictures that capture the photographer’s view in every direction – 360 degrees around, and 180 degrees up and down. In other words, the image is a complete sphere with the photographer (or camera) at the center. They are typically viewed in a…
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WWP Transportation
This is the Albany train station, a transportation hub in the mid-valley. This was taken for the WWP Transportation theme.