Panther Junction

Hello again, everyone! Boy, it's about time I got back to this, huh? Well, I'm sorry, but I've been too busy setting up house properly, getting all my black and white images scanned and in my photo galleries, and getting involved in an online aviation photo site, thanks to days of scanning all my old airplane photos. Whew! But I took some time to do a little photography around and of the place, so I thought I'd share it with you, since some of you asked for visuals. The above photo was taken yesterday morning, and shows my perch (the rock outcrop at the top of the hill in the foreground, right below the mountain that looks like a giant nipple) for the following photos:


And here's the general overview, showing my apartment building -- the line pointing directly to my door -- in relationship to the Panther Junction Visitor Center. We're looking east/northeast toward the Deadhorse Mountains.


Here's a little closer view (not that you couldn't have enlarged your self by clicking on it), without all the titling.


And as a parting shot, here's a panorama I cooked up on Photoshop, spanning the entire area, or at least as far as I could with rocks in the way. I'm still not too happy with how Photoshop does panoramas, as Microsoft's Picture It! and Canon's Photostitch did much better jobs matching exposures. (They're both PC programs, though.) My "Photoshop for Dummies" book suggested putting the camera in Manual Exposure mode to avoid this, so I'll try that out next time. Hmm . . . Now that I look at it, I could've accomplished the same thing by just cropping the top and bottom of the first shot, and saved myself all the aggravation.


Yep, I was right. Oh, well.