Calgary Stampede grounds and skyline by Dave Belcher

I shot this early in the morning before the Stampede fans arrived so as to show the empty stands and tp have the sun illuminating it from this side. I also did another Gigapan about 4 hours later showing the grandstand full of spectators. You can tell it's Calgary by the Husky Tower and the Saddledome. There is also a considerable amount of construction underway downtown including one 58 story office tower.

Your comments are welcome...go explore.

BTW, this upload took 12 hours on my dialup. The file was 453 Megs as a compressed Tiff file

Panorama size: 985 megapixels (110064 x 8954 pixels)
Input images: 200 (40 columns by 5 rows)
Field of view: 115.7 degrees wide by 9.4 degrees high (top=5.9, bottom=-3.5)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Panasonic
Camera model: DMC-FZ50
Image size: 3648x2736 (10.0 megapixels)
Capture time: 2009-07-12 10:00:56 - 2009-07-12 10:10:37
Aperture: f/8
Exposure time: 0.002
ISO: 100
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 420.0 mm
Digital zoom: off
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Automatic
Horizontal overlap: 23.8 to 29.5 percent
Vertical overlap: 37.3 to 59.4 percent
Computer stats: 2048 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 2:12:24 (0:39 per picture)
Alignment: 9:31, Projection: 15:57, Blending: 1:46:54

The file has been reduced to 50% to accommodate my dialup.