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Re: Energy, Security...and file size limits
Jeffrey Engel 2005-Oct-18 02:51:00
WOW... I'm interested in how you shot the digesters. I'm surprised you
didn't fall through those coverings. Obviously you didn't, so I guess
there's so much pressure underneath that it's like walking on the top
of a hot-air balloon? Tell us a bit about it, if you're willing.
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Jeffrey Engel
http://www.engelgrafik.com
http://www.panospin.com
On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Brooks Leffler wrote:
> Security got in the way of my shooting a pano for the Energy theme,
> twice. And WWP's file
> size limits led me to an approach I haven't seen used here before.
>
> The easiest subject for me would have been the Moss Landing power
> plant, California's
> largest, which is right up the road. At Landis' urging (nothing
> ventured, nothing gained,
> he said) I contacted Duke Energy in Texas to see if I could take a
> kite aerial pano of their
> huge stacks, but was not at all surprised that they wanted nothing to
> do with pictures,
> indoors or out.
>
> Wanting to do something different (and hopefully devoid of security
> issues), I searched the
> web for leads to something I'd read about earlier in the newspaper:
> a methane digester,
> that makes electricity out of cow manure.
>
> One of the pilot projects is at a dairy on the rolling Marin County
> hills overlooking
> beautiful Tomales Bay. The family that owns it was delighted with
> the idea, but has had
> problems in the past with unwelcome visitors to the family home,
> which is right next to
> the digester. So they have a policy of no pictures of the house.
> Two down.
>
> However, they were happy to give me contact info that led me to the
> largest dairy
> operation in the country, in the middle of California's central
> valley. It is flat,
> photographically-boring terrain, compared to Tomales Bay, but with a
> huge 7-acre
> digester right in the middle of it. Soon I had a very positive,
> welcoming response from the
> CEO of Joseph Farms, which led to a personally-guided tour and an
> hour of his time
> onsite, and a successful shoot. No wind, so it couldn't be done from
> a kite, but successful
> nonetheless.
>
> Methane digestion can't be captured in one photo, IMO, so I shot two
> panos, hoping that I
> could cram them both into the space available and link them with hot
> spots. Too big for
> WWP. So I hit on the idea of posting the second pano on my own site
> and linking to both
> small and large images with hot spots created in CubicConnector. I'm
> quite pleased with
> the result, which easily came in within WWP file-size limits.
>
> You can see the results at
> http://geoimages.berkeley.edu:16080/wwp905/fullscreen/
> BrooksLeffler.html .
>
> bgl
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