Rock Octopus

6 responses to “Rock Octopus”

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   jurvetson

   Aug 4, 2013 at 4:45 am

   Our path dead-ended in the pond
   

   somewhat strange to be creeping around in a silent car…
   

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   rass999 denis laframboise

   Aug 4, 2013 at 2:47 pm

   Wow beautiful results coming out of a phone. Very surprised I am….and I do have a very large screen. Splendid image.

   denis

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   jurvetson

   Aug 4, 2013 at 3:47 pm

   I think part of the magic comes from the 6-axis accelerometer. It can detect the slightest movement of the angle of the camera and auto-stitch a single frame from what seems to be a video feed coupled to movement.

   Oh, I should mention that these quarries take on a certain beauty to photographers like Ed Burtynsky who draw you in with their immense sense of scale. Here are some of my favorites:

   http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Quarries/Iberia_Large_Image...
   http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Quarries/Vermont_Large_Imag...
   http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Quarries/Carrara_Large_Imag...
   http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Breaking_Ground/Mines_Large...

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   posamentier

   Aug 5, 2013 at 4:38 pm

   Burtynsky is great and this is right in same vein. There’s a great quarry at the eastern foot of the Dumbarton Bridge as well that you can actually bike to. It’s almost vertigo inducing.

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   sbove

   Aug 8, 2013 at 4:25 am

   I’ve seen that quarry from the air and thought, "How can they let that thing operate so in/near a watershed feeding one of San Francisco’s main reservoirs…sigh.

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6. 

   jurvetson

   Aug 8, 2013 at 10:05 pm

   Here is a big one I "found" near San Jose, with similar issues…

   

   and a citizen citizen reaction about it…

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