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What's New - 2004 Archive |
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12/8/04 - Jamaica Images coming soon!We recently spent over a week on the island of Jamaica working with The Nature Conservancy and some Jamaican Protected Areas. Look for panoramas, video and images soon from this trip. |
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11/10/04 - New City of Rocks panoramaWe took a cubic panorama on top of Bath Rock at the City of Rocks National Reserve. |
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10/04 - International QuickTime Virtual Reality Association (IQTVRA)We recently attended the annual conference for this professional organization in Sedona, Arizona. Look for panoramas and still images from this picturesque area in the future. |
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10/11/04 - Bear Valley Creek restoration panoramaWe took a cubic panorama at one of the Bear Valley Creek restoration sites in the Boise National Forest as part of another project coordinated by Mary Dudley, Idaho Fish and Game Volunteer Coordinator. |
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8 & 9/04 - Nez Perce National Historic TrailWe spent two weeks photographing many locations along this trail from the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon through Idaho, Yellowstone and to the Bears Paw Mountains in northern Montana. We will be producing a Virtual Tour of this Historic Trail with panoramas, still images and video in the near future. |
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7/26/04 - Two New Panoramas from the Tules AreaWe've added two more full screen cubic panoramas from the Tules area of the Oywhee Canyonlands in southwest Idaho. These all have natural sound effects taken on location! |
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7/22/04 - Little Salmon River restoration panoramaWe participated in river restoration on the Little Salmon River as part of the projects developed by Mary Dudley, Idaho Fish and Game Volunteer Coordinator. The panorama taken here supplements an earlier one taken on Round Valley Creek, a tribultary to the Little Salmon River. |
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7/12/04 - Castle Rocks State Park and City of Rocks National ReserveWe recently visited the City of Rocks National Reserve and the newly established Castle Rocks State Park in South Central Idaho. We anticipate shooting a number of panoramas in this area in the future. For now you can view the recent cubic pan of Castle Rocks State Park. |
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7/6/04 - Summer Solstice 2004 World Wide Panorama World Heritage Shoot Goes LiveMountain Visions participated in this world wide project and submitted our nomination of the Tules Area in the Owyhee Canyonlands as a potential World Heritage site. More panoramas shot on June 20th from this amazing area in the Owyhee Canyonlands will be added to our existing collection soon. |
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6/24/04 - Mountain Visions interviewed live on The Wild Side News radio program hosted by Naturalist Sidney Wildesmith.(Look under "Photography" for the link to the interview)Sidney Wildesmith was interested in knowing more about how we produce and use the immersive, interactive 360 degree panoramas to help people learn about natural resource issues. Other interesting guests on this days' program included Mike Matz, with the Campaign for America's Wilderness who discussed their latest report on 12 wilderness treasures which are in trouble, and Cole Frates, who with the Hydrogen Car Company, has developed hydrogen powered vehicles using normal internal combustion engines. |
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6/20/04 - Mountain Visions participates in World Wide Panorama ShootPhotographers around the world are contributing to a VR photography event to celebrate the 2004 Solstice. Three days were allocated to photograph a UNESCO World Heritage Site or a place that could fit the theme of "World Heritage". We traveled to the Tules area of the Owyhee Canyonlands in southwest Idaho to photograph a number of panoramas. One of these will be submitted to the World Wide Panorama Shoot Project in the next few days. All of these new panoramas will be added to the Owyhee Canyonlands section of our Idaho Interactive Virtual Tours. |
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6/4/04 - Mountain Visions to present at the PlaNetwork Interactive 2004 Conference in San Fransicso, June 5-7.PlaNetwork illuminates the critical role that the conscious use of information technologies and the Internet can, and indeed must, play in creating a truly democratic, ecologically sane and socially just future.Our topic for presentation is InterActive InterNetworking for Ecological Commons. An abstract and description is available at this link. |
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6/4/04 - Tending Our Foothills in the Ridge to Rivers Trail SystemWe photographed and shot video footage on May 1 showing volunteer efforts to rehabilitate and maintain trails in the Boise footfhills. If possible, we will try to add this materials to the Ridge to River Trail System Web Site in the future. For now, you can view the full screen cubic panoramas from this day in our Boise Area section.
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6/3/04 - Hells Canyon Aridland Invasives WorkshopMay 18-20, we attended this workshop and photographed the trip up Hells Canyon to Garden Creek Ranch which is part of the Tri-State Demonstration Weed Management Area. We also visited the Nez Perce Bio-Control Center in Lapwai. View the full screen cubic panoramas which include video and audio clips; |
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6/2/04 - Idaho Governor's Conference on Recreation and TourismWe photographed some cubic panoramas while attending this conference, May 5-7 in Twin Falls. These full screen panoramas include audio and video clips;
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5/27/04 - More Full Screen Cubic PanoramasWe have added new full screen cubic panoramas from Idaho of;The following include "hot spots" which link to information and video clips.
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4/26/04 - High Resolution Zoomable Panoramas and ImagesWe have produced high resolution 360 degree panoramas and still images using the Zoomify technology. This allows high resolution images to be downloaded fast and be interactive on the web. The main feature is that the user can zoom from a wide view and see high resolution detail and close-up views. The cubic panoramas can be found at Goose Creek in the Kelly Creek Area of the Clearwater Forest in northern Idaho, at Ants Basin Divide in the 4th of July Lake Area of the Boulder White Cloud Mountains in central Idaho and in Boise of Our Front Garden.A few hi resolution Zoomify Images are available in the Photography Gallery. Zoomify's web site provides a free Zoomify QuickTime Component for viewing the panoramas and images that we have produced using QuickTime. |
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4/26/04 - New videos zoom and pan on close-up images and panoramas.Using several still images to create "Ken Burns" motion effect movies, we have produced some high quality Photos to Video of plants and flowers, some with identity captions. This technology might represent the next generation of interactive outdoor "field guides" for the Internet, computer kiosks and DVD's. Using a hi resolution panorama, we have created a similar Panorama to Video movie which pans and zooms from wide views to details. |
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4/22/04 - Mountain Visions to exhibit at the 2004 Idaho Governor's Conference on Recreation and Tourism, May 5-7, Twin Falls, idahoPhotographers and multimedia producers for over 30 years, Katy Flanagan and Gary O. Grimm of Mountain Visions has helped a wide variety of local, state and federal agencies and organizations fully produce tourism, recreational, cultural, historical and scientific educational programs in Idaho and other western states. For the past 10 years, we have specialized in creating immersive, interactive, 360 degree photographic and audio-visual "virtual tours" of outdoor landscapes. This material can be made readily available on the Internet, CD/DVD-ROM and computer kiosks. Experience our amazing full screen panoramas and Interactive Journeys at our exhibit booth. We look forward to meeting you! |
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3/23/04 - Interactive Watersheds Major Features Preview - Now Available OnlineWe have created an interactive online preview that highlights the major features included in the Interactive Watersheds web site projects. (See the November 6, 2003 News Release - 620k PDF file) We have used the Upper Sevier River Community Watershed Project web site as the example, however all these features are similar for the other four participating watershed web sites - Potomac Watershed Partnership, Conasauga River Alliance, Coalition for the Upper South Platte and Pit River Watershed Alliance. |
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1/26/04 - Mountain Visions Virtual Tour of Yellowstone Highlighted in San Francisco Chronicle ArticleAssociated Press writer Roger Petterson included our Interactive Virtual Tour of Yellowstone National Park in his article CYBERTRIPS: Get a Web heads-up before you head to Yellowstone, January 26, 2004. "Mountain Visions ... has put together stunning panoramic photos of the park's high points. Be sure your computer's speakers are turned on because as you pan the photos past geysers and waterfalls the natural sound effects move along in stereo." |
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