Heather Dalton Photography | Blog » desert http://heatherdalton.com/blog Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:19:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 When autostitching panoramas goes horribly, horribly wrong… http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1497 http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1497#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:48:11 +0000 Heather http://heatherdalton.com/blog/?p=1497 While trying to create another variation of the below panorama, I either added or neglected to put in a photo that seriously confused the autostitching program I was using, AutoPano.  AutoPano generally does a great job at creating panoramas, stretching and tilting the photos, and correcting any lens distortion and color variations to make a seamless image.  This time… not so much.  But it’s swirly and brightly-colored, and it made me laugh, so I thought I’d share it.  I’ll call it Meteor Crater Swirls, deem it an abstract photo, and let it be a happy accident :)

]]> http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1497/feed 4 Rain in the Arizona desert http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1488 http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1488#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:00:05 +0000 Heather http://heatherdalton.com/blog/?p=1488 During the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter teacher workshop I helped teach at Arizona State University in August, we took a field trip to visit some craters in northern Arizona – two volcanoes and an impact crater.  Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is located about 35 miles east of Flagstaff.  Because of the arid environment and its young age (~50,000 years old), this crater is the best preserved impact crater in the world.

August is monsoon season in Arizona, and storms were building as we approached Meteor Crater. I got a few images as we were driving, and we stopped on Meteor Crater Road for a few minutes, where I took the horizontal panorama (Meteor Crater is the rise on the left side of the road.). I love how you can see the individual storms pouring down rain on the desert with clear sky on either side.

]]> http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/1488/feed 3 Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/392 http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/392#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:46:59 +0000 Heather http://heatherdalton.com/blog/?p=392 We had some spare time in Arizona so we spent a few hours at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.  They had a monarch butterfly exhibit, and I got some pictures of all the cactus and desert plants.

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]]> http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/392/feed 2 Scenic Arizona drive http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/385 http://heatherdalton.com/blog/archives/385#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:42:35 +0000 Heather http://heatherdalton.com/blog/?p=385 Once in Arizona, we went on a scenic drive going north on AZ87 out of Scottsdale.  As the road curves around through the mountains, it’s absolutely gorgeous.  I made this video on my Canon 7D.  The song is “That’s What’s Wrong” by Good Old War. The road was a bit bumpy at times, but it was a fun drive!

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