New Harrison Hollow Gigapan 2

Last night I uploaded two Gigapans I shot during the March 2, 2013 Trail Day at Harrison Hollow in Boise, Idaho  They are both showing the same area, but have different people doing different things in each. The link to the second Gigapan page is below.

http://gigapan.com/gigapans/125514

As I note in the description you should use the full screen option to see the highest quality image.  The "Snapshot" images do not show in full screen so you should use the normal screen first to zoom in and explore the snapshot views. Also, I have aligned both of these Gigapans in Google Earth.  Viewing each of them in Google Earth will take you to a fly in right to the ridge where I was standing and open up the Gigapan that you can zoom into and explore.

A small working version is embedded here, but the link above will let you see much more.

New Harrison Hollow Gigapans

Last night I uploaded two Gigapans I shot during the March 2, 2013 Trail Day at Harrison Hollow in Boise, Idaho  They are both showing the same area, but have different people doing different things in each. The link to the Gigapan page is below.

http://gigapan.com/gigapans/125509

As I note in the description you should use the full screen option to see the highest quality image.  The "Snapshot" images do not show in full screen so you should use the normal screen first to zoom in and explore the snapshot views. Also, I have aligned both of these Gigapans in Google Earth.  Viewing each of them in Google Earth will take you to a fly in right to the ridge where I was standing and open up the Gigapan that you can zoom into and explore.

A small working version is embedded here, but the link above will let you see much more.

Harrison Hollow Trail Day - March 2, 2012 - Boise, Idaho

I shot a few DSLR  time lapse 2 second interval, sequences  showing volunteers doing work at the Harrison Hollow Trail Day on March 2. 2013.  This is an experiment in combining these and playing at 30 frames per second.

Sage Grouse In The Schools - Emmett, Idaho

The Sage Grouse in the Schools video we produced with The Nature Conservancy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife will be shown at the the Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival, in Boise Idaho on March 9. 2013.

Close up of Sage Grouse Strut display

Very good close up action and sound in this Male Sage Grouse strut display video.

(Via Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

The Record High Stock Market - How are you doing?

Contrary to what we usually hear, read, or see in the popular media, the stock market reflects the health of Corporate profits, not the overall health of the overall economy. The record high rating today, in view of the state of our current economy should verify this for all of us. Compared to big corporations,how many of the rest of us have any  in the influence in the status of the stock market?  Investments of the 99% are very small compared to big business. Yet when the stock market goes down, those with investments, no matter how small are disproportionally affected.

Robert Reich vis Huff Post Blog provides a view of how the lower income 99% compare to the "Big American Corporations in profits and how this relates to the record high stock market today. 

"Rarely before in American history have public policies so radically helped the most fortunate among us, so cruelly harmed the least fortunate, and exposed so many average working Americans to such widespread insecurity."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/stock-market-record-high_b_2812590.html