Back from Vacation

Yesterday I came back from a vacation (see Bing Map) to Taos, New Mexico and Durango, Colorado with stops in Albuquerque, Silverton Colorado, and Mesa Verde National Park.  I took my new Canon T1i digital SLR with me and loved using it – taking over 1,000 photographs and HD videos.  In addition to the photographs and video, I chronicled some of the days in my journal with sketches, watercolors, and collage. I I’ve already started making some panorama shots using Windows Live Photo Gallery and I plan to do some deep zoom compositions of the photographs (15 megapixels) and my journal pages.

 
A panorama of 7 photographs stitched together using Windows Live Photo Gallery

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park

Photosynths from Mesa Verde National Park

• Cliff Palace Photosynth 1 (above)
• Cliff Palace Photosynth 2
• Cliff Palace Photosynth 3
• Spruce Tree House Photosynth

Whenever I go on vacation, I like to list the significant world events that happened:

• Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009: see live video today (7/7/2009) of the memorial service live at 10:00 AM PT, 1:00 PM ET on the web using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
• Farrah Fawcett dies on June 25, 2009.
• Robert McNamera dies on July 6, 2009.