Grand Canyon GigaView
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A gigapixel virtual tour via the Colorado River of America's premier natural attraction.
Grand Canyon GigaView was crowd-source funded via Kickstarter.com in the spring of 2010. It's 27 images, most of which are full 360 degree panoramas, were captured alongside the Colorado River over the course on an 18 day private rafting trip. The photographer rowed one of the rafts through over 180 named rapids in the course of the 225 mile trip.
To date, Grand Canyon GigaView has been explored by almost half a million people on various platforms including GigaPan.com, Photosynth.net, Google Earth, Bing Maps, and 360Cities.net.
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Grand Canyon GigaView is a project by Thomas Hayden. Thomas has shot over 400 gigapixel panoramas in the two years since the Canyon, including the world's largest stage at U2's 360 Tour and on the field for the NFL. He continues to shoot daily for clients and for fun in and around his home in Portland, Oregon.
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This GigaPan was shot while waiting for PRO (Professional River Outfitters) to shuttle us and our gear to the put-in at Lee's Ferry. People were moving around making last minute adjustments to the pack so body parts are visible throughout, but it shows the quantity of gear necessary to run the Grand Canyon. The enorm...
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One of the jewels of the American West, Havasu Creek is named for the people who have lived along it for at least the last eight hunded years. The Havasupai (the-people-of-the-blue-green-waters) have had a long struggle to hold onto their traditional lands in the face of we...-
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Shot onboard our borrowed 18ft Maravia while at camp above Hance Rapid, this GigaPan provides a glimpse at the vital gear that got us through the Canyon. Because Hance is accessible from the rim, boaters often run into hikers at this camp. We met up with several hikers tha...-
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One of the most rewarding hikes in the Grand Canyon, Nankoweap offers a glimpse into the life of a people who carved a living from the bottom of the Canyon hundreds of years ago.
According to the NPS website:
Experimentation with horticultural subsistence began in the Sou...-
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Located at River Mile 116.5, Elve's Chasm is a refreshing stop with a quick hike up to this slot canyon where one can swim, climb, and jump into the crystal clear pool. With shadows moving quickly and covering the swimming area, I was forced to over-expose the downstream vie...-
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A low angle perspective from the high water plain at one of the most open views in the Canyon, this shot is comprised of 120 images. Taken On Day 5 of our Grand Canyon river trip at the widening after Marble Canyon, this is the beach at Upper Tanner camp.
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Taken from a rock cliff on the top of the Vishnu Schist overlooking our party's boats at Lower Bass Camp, a place that was the actual surface of the Earth at least 210 million years ago, if not 1.2 billion years ago. Just before shooting this image, I had spotted a Chuckwall...-
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Another boating party gets set to take off after a lunch stop at the Little Colorado. The Little Colorado is an undammed tributary of the Colorado River that will often run a remarkable turquoise color during dry seasons. This being a wet spring means that the tributary is...-
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The Great Unconformity - Welcome to the surface of the Earth, approx. 550 million years ago. The first layer of rock, at ground level here, is called the Vishnu Schist. It consists of several complex sets of sedimentary and volcanic that were laid down 1.8 billion years ag...-
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Early morning light begins to crawl down the canyon walls as campers sleep. This was captured on our first morning on the river. The water had dropped significantly overnight due to lowered release from Glen Canyon Dam, which is usually the result of less demand from the e...-
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