Originally posted by photocles I, for one, am certainly not gonna complain to anyone about it!
Thanks! Photos don't get much more panoramic than 360 degrees.
Originally posted by rayallen Neither will I.
Cool!
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Quote: Oh, I see what you mean. That Theta "photo" was very realistic and I would have thought twice about being there. It made your pano image about 1000% better. Thanks for sharing both.
Thanks! I just wanted to put the challenge in context. I have respect for mountain climbers but my sense of self preservation seems to be unusually strong.
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Originally posted by photocles Interesting thought and indeed true! What is difficult for me to grasp is that it was only ~40 years between the time when everyone had horses (and little to no automobiles) and the era of those propeller-driven trainers. My great grandmother (born in 1899) used to talk about the rapid transition between her childhood life on a farm (no indoor plumbing, no electricity, a horse-drawn wagon, only lighter-than-air as an option for flight) and her 20s (indoor plumbing, electric lights, driving a Model T, the first widespread use of heavier-than-air aircraft). What a contrast.
My grandfather was also born in 1899 in Derbyshire not far from the Rolls Royce factory where they now make jet engines, but at the time of steam trains and steam ships. He worked as a fitter and turner on the railways as well as maintaining some of the first aircraft at the end of WW1. He drove a horse and cart in Sydney to deliver milk. Yet by the time he passed away he lived to see man on the moon, and the first space shuttle flight. As you say, what a contrast!