I’m a huge fan (Crater Lake, Oregon) of panoramic photos (University of Rhode Island). This particular pano from the NY Times is a gorgeous example of a panoramic photograph.

The full-size version of the Water Cube panorama is gigantic and showcases the enormity of the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.

Interactive full-screen 360 Pano after the cut…
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If Stewart Foss, the proprietor of eduStyle - inspiration for campus web designers, ever purchased monogrammed [ES] eduStyle towels, I could easily borrow them. In lieu of towels, Stewart sent me something that I am even more fond of. A custom, one of a kind, eduStyle t-shirt. The front proudly displays the eduStyle logo while the back outs me as eduStyle’s “most awesome user.” The community at eduStyle continues to grow and I thoroughly enjoy being one of the many users on the site.

Photographs of flooding in Columbus Junction, Iowa:

The store with the giant apple on it is the Economart - Columbus Junction’s grocery store. I worked at the Economart for 2 years while I was in high school. I was always asking people if they wanted “paper or plastic”. My former doctor’s office is located just a few stores down from the Economart.

More photos of flooding (before and after) in Columbus Junction after the jump…

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Here are some aerial photographs of flooding in Iowa from Columbus Junction, Fredonia, Lake Odessa and Muscatine. The images of flooding in Columbus Junction are unbelievable. My mom told me that floodwaters were as high as the pop machines at the Economart in Columbus Junction and that was after some of the flood waters had receded!

More aerial photographs of flooding in Southeast Iowa after the jump…
(Photographs courtesy of D. Stacy Lewis of Stacy-Lewis and Wittich-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services of Columbus Junction and Muscatine.)

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The University of Rhode Island is located in Kingston, Rhode Island. I created the following panoramic image on a very cold day on the URI campus. I was standing in the middle of the quad on a slightly raised surface therefore the pano has a bit of an arc. The original image is 16,000 pixels wide. To see a slightly smaller image (3,000 pixels wide), click on the photograph.

These were all taken from inside a car on our way home from the RISD Museum.

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I had my first yurt experience last weekend. Wendy and I stayed in Newport, Oregon at the South Beach State Park. It was blissful. Here are a few photographs from our yurting experience.

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The Columbia River Gorge, the Historic Highway, and Multnomah Falls are some of my favorite places to visit in Oregon.

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We were driving home from Portland the other day when I took these photographs. The sunset was a mix of purples, yellows, oranges, and light blue. I pulled off of highway 34, rolled down the window and snapped a couple quick shots of the sunset just outside of Corvallis.

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