Panorama Showing An Abandoned Prairie Homestead With WinPanorama Showing An Abandoned Prairie Homestead With Windmill. This Panorama Will Give You An Idea What It Is Like to Live and Travel In the Lonely Isolated Wide Open Northern Planes.
"Later, when we stop, Sylvia has tears in her eyes from the wind, and she stretches out her arms and says, "It’s so beautiful. It’s so empty." .... John gets his camera out. .. After a while he says, "This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it’s just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it’s gone." .. I say, "That’s what you don’t see in a car, I suppose." .. Sylvia says, "Once when I was about ten we stopped like this by the road and I used half a roll of film taking pictures. And when the pictures came back I cried. There wasn’t anything there." .. "When are we going to get going?" Chris says.“ [John Sutherland has since become a professional photographer, and is very much interested in the Photographic Arts. ]
12Mi West of Ellendale, ND. Having stopped to photograph this Farm House & Windmill, I Remember John’s statement above and proceed to capture this panoramic scene with a nine photo "360 deg Panorama".
As I prepared to "shoot" this panorama, I became concerned that too much of the highway was showing in my panoramas. So wanted to try an experiment: I decided, contrary to my other panoramas, that I should try to "eliminate the highway". So I took the first four photos on the North side of the highway and the last five photos on the South side of the highway. The result is here. As you can see this photo technique has that unfortunate break in the middle. This break defies any reasonable stitch to bridge the gap, so I abandoned this method. (My 9 unedited original photos may be viewed at the last panorama in this album.)
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(Photo = 103-103 0353+9sc ...... ZMM Page = 042 ...... WayPt = 045`|w|' 1542ft )

Upload Date	:	Thu 25 Aug 2005 01:41:05 PM EDT
Capture Date	:	Thu 25 Aug 2005 01:41:02 PM EDT
Image Size	:	640 x 65 (12k)