I make giant panoramic images with a Gigapan robotic camera mount. It automates the process of capturing multiple images to assemble into a panorama. My earlier panoaramas were typically composed of 24 pictures and contained about 70 megapixels. Now I am producing panoramas assembled from nearly 500 images and containing over two billion pixels. My Gigapan ID is GoletaBrian.

The next time you visit Google Earth, try clicking on the Gigapan Photos Layer. It's in the Gallery section.

Load my Arizona Gigapans on Google Earth. Then load the March 2009 Arizona Gigapan Tour. Playing the tour will take you to the locations of the fifteen Gigapans in the order that they were taken.

Red Rock Secret Wilderness Overlook, June 28, 2010

Looking down into Red Rock Secret Wilderness. The city of Sedona lies on the far side of Capitol Butte in the distance. Smoke from the Shultz Fire obscures the distant horizon.

Panorama size: 758 megapixels (29397 x 25802 pixels)
Input images: 252 (14 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 124.1 degrees wide by 108.9 degrees high (top=49.5, bottom=-59.4)

You can buy prints up to four feet by six feet or greeting cards of this photograph.

Looking down into Red Rock Secret Wilderness. The city of Sedona lies on the far side of Capitol Butte in the distance. Smoke from the Shultz Fire obscures the distant horizon.

Panorama size: 871 megapixels (33643 x 25898 pixels)
Input images: 288 (16 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 171.1 degrees wide by 131.7 degrees high (top=71.0, bottom=-60.7)

You can buy prints up to four feet by six feet or greeting cards of this photograph.

West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon from East Buzzard Point, June 25, 2010

Looking down into the west fork of Oak Creek Canyon from East Buzzard Point.

Panorama size: 1051 megapixels (45210 x 23257 pixels)
Input images: 352 (22 columns by 16 rows)
Field of view: 228.9 degrees wide by 117.7 degrees high (top=62.3, bottom=-55.4)

Red Rock Secret Wilderness Overlook, June 25, 2010

Looking down into Red Rock Secret Wilderness. The city of Sedona lies on the far side of Capitol Butte in the distance. Smoke from the Shultz Fire obscures the distant horizon.

Panorama size: 742 megapixels (28789 x 25785 pixels)
Input images: 234 (13 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 145.7 degrees wide by 130.5 degrees high (top=75.8, bottom=-54.7)

You can buy prints up to four feet by six feet or greeting cards of this photograph.

San Francisco Peaks and Shultz Fire, June 25, 2010

Smoke wafts from the Shultz Fire five days after it started burning.

Panorama size: 347 megapixels (21422 x 16231 pixels)
Input images: 110 (10 columns by 11 rows)
Field of view: 108.5 degrees wide by 82.2 degrees high (top=30.1, bottom=-52.0)

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Montezuma's Castle and Well, May 6, 2010

Montezuma's Castle was constructed by the Sinagua people starting in the 1100s. They departed in the 1300s for unknown reasons.

Panorama size: 771 megapixels (28236 x 27331 pixels)
Input images: 266 (14 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 124.1 degrees wide by 120.2 degrees high (top=68.6, bottom=-51.5)

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Montezuma's Well is a limestone sinkhole. It was an important source of water for the Sinagua people from the 100s to the 1300s. It is fed by a warm spring that produces 1.5 million gallons of water each day. The water has a high carbon dioxide content so fish cannot survive in the lake. The water drains through a swallet and emerges on the far side of the rock wall. The Sinagua people dug an irrigation ditch to direct the outflow to their croplands.

Panorama size: 1101 megapixels (42414 x 25972 pixels)
Input images: 380 (20 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 220.7 degrees wide by 135.1 degrees high (top=81.3, bottom=-53.9)

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Casa Grande Ruins, April 30, 2010

The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is located near the town of Coolidge, Arizona. The big house was constructed of caliche mud by the Hohokam people in the 1200s and 1300s. A culture of communal irrigation fed agriculture propsered in the area for many decades. The compound was abandoned for inknown reasons before the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s. The descendents of the Hohokam may be the Tohono O'odham people.

Panorama size: 613 megapixels (22565 x 27171 pixels)
Input images: 209 (11 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 114.6 degrees wide by 138.0 degrees high (top=87.5, bottom=-50.4)

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Panorama size: 884 megapixels (36208 x 24437 pixels)
Input images: 306 (18 columns by 17 rows)
Field of view: 183.0 degrees wide by 123.5 degrees high (top=75.3, bottom=-48.2)

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Panorama size: 513 megapixels (19929 x 25764 pixels)
Input images: 162 (9 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 99.5 degrees wide by 128.7 degrees high (top=75.6, bottom=-53.1)

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Salt River, Bulldog Canyon, April 29, 2010

The Salt River flows down from Roosevelt Lake through a series of reservoirs to and through the city of Phoenix. It is running very high this spring. It is seen here winding through Buldog Canyon below Stuart Mountain Dam and Saguaro Lake.

Panorama size: 803 megapixels (30367 x 26454 pixels)
Input images: 252 (14 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 154.7 degrees wide by 134.8 degrees high (top=81.2, bottom=-53.6)

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This is a popular spot for launching river rafts and floating on the river in inner tubes.

Panorama size: 819 megapixels (29899 x 27396 pixels)
Input images: 266 (14 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 128.0 degrees wide by 117.3 degrees high (top=73.3, bottom=-44.0)

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Coons Bluff is one of the landing spots for rafts and inner tube riders, just above the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers.

Panorama size: 973 megapixels (37805 x 25743 pixels)
Input images: 324 (18 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 192.0 degrees wide by 130.8 degrees high (top=73.9, bottom=-56.8)

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Saguaro National Park, Arizona, March 19, 2010

Ocotillo grow alongside Saguaros in Saguaro National Park in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains.

Panorama size: 796 megapixels (28709 x 27748 pixels)
Input images: 266 (14 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 106.4 degrees wide by 102.9 degrees high (top=64.5, bottom=-38.4)

Three Saguaros stand alongside a dry creek bed in Saguaro National Park in the foothills of the Rincin Mountains.

Panorama size: 816 megapixels (30776 x 26539 pixels)
Input images: 270 (15 columns by 18 rows)
Field of view: 114.6 degrees wide by 98.8 degrees high (top=58.6, bottom=-40.2)

A stand of Saguaros in the east section of Saguaro National Park in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains.

Panorama size: 865 megapixels (34410 x 25154 pixels)
Input images: 289 (17 columns by 17 rows)
Field of view: 127.7 degrees wide by 93.3 degrees high (top=45.6, bottom=-47.7)

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A skeleton is all that remains of a fallen Saguaro in Saguaro National park. The Rincon Mountains serve as a backdrop. A Mesquite Tree probably served a nurse plant for the Sagauro when it was very small.

Panorama size: 712 megapixels (32003 x 22278 pixels)
Input images: 240 (16 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 108.2 degrees wide by 75.3 degrees high (top=29.2, bottom=-46.1)

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Papago Buttes, Arizona, February 4, 2010

Papago Buttes from the Eliot Ramada in the west half of Papgo Park, about two miles from my new home.

Panorama size: 788 megapixels (29006 x 27168 pixels)
Input images: 266 (14 columns by 19 rows)
Field of view: 147.3 degrees wide by 138.0 degrees high

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Papago Buttes, Arizona, January 29, 2010

Papago Buttes are a familiar landmark to residents of Phoenix, Arizona. They straddle McDowell Road. The plants are Creosote, Sage, and Palo Verde Trees.

Panorama size: 780 megapixels (28491 x 27410 pixels)
Input images: 204 (12 columns by 17 rows)
Field of view: 145.1 degrees wide by 139.6 degrees high

Snow on Four Peaks, Arizona, January 25, 2010

After a recent winter storm, I drove east out of Scottsdale to Four Peaks to shoot a couple of new Gigapans.

Panorama size: 1066 megapixels (38689 x 27555 pixels)
Input images: 289 (17 columns by 17 rows)
Field of view: 196.6 degrees wide by 140.0 degrees high

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Four Peaks is blanketed in snow from a recent winter storm as the sun sets. Saguaro, Cholla and Prickly Pear Cacti dominate the landscape,

Panorama size: 914 megapixels (33409 x 27360 pixels)
Input images: 238 (14 columns by 17 rows)
Field of view: 168.8 degrees wide by 138.3 degrees high

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Sunset Crater from southeast, Arizona, March 17, 2009

Sunset Crater is a cinder cone that erupted about 1,000 years ago. This view shows the southeast side of the cinder cone

Panorama size: 1270 megapixels (44136 x 28786 pixels)
Input images: 240 (16 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 222.1 degrees wide by 144.9 degrees high (top=90.0, bottom=-54.9)

Sunset Crater from south, Arizona, March 17, 2009

This view shows the south side of the cinder cone

Panorama size: 1186 megapixels (43563 x 27245 pixels)
Input images: 224 (16 columns by 14 rows)
Field of view: 219.2 degrees wide by 137.1 degrees high (top=83.9, bottom=-53.2)

Sunset Crater from Lava Flow Trail, Arizona, March 16, 2009

This view was taken along the Lava Flow Trail on the west side of the crater.

Panorama size: 987 megapixels (35109 x 28119 pixels)
Input images: 195 (13 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 177.8 degrees wide by 142.4 degrees high (top=85.6, bottom=-56.7)

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

Meteor Crater, Arizona, March 16, 2009

Barringer Crater, more popularly known as Meteor Crater, was created by the impact of a meteorite about 50,000 years ago.

Panorama size: 1998 megapixels (71402 x 27984 pixels)
Input images: 392 (28 columns by 14 rows)
Field of view: 360.0 degrees wide by 141.1 degrees high (top=87.2, bottom=-53.9)

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Superstition Mountains, Arizona, March 13, 2009

Late afternoon view of the Superstition Mountains from Lost Dutchman Park

Panorama size: 1222 megapixels (43110 x 28367 pixels)
Input images: 240 (16 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 218.2 degrees wide by 143.6 degrees high (top=86.4, bottom=-57.2)

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

Apache Lake, Apache Trail, Arizona, March 13, 2009

Apache Lake is just below Roosevelt Lake along the Apache Trail. It is as full as it has ever been.

Panorama size: 1988 megapixels (71358 x 27861 pixels)
Input images: 378 (27 columns by 14 rows)
Field of view: 360.0 degrees wide by 140.6 degrees high (top=86.9, bottom=-53.6)

Roosevelt Dam, Apache Trail, Arizona, March 13, 2009

Roosevelt Dam is at the upper end of the Apache Trail.

Panorama size: 1062 megapixels (38326 x 27731 pixels)
Input images: 210 (14 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 193.1 degrees wide by 139.7 degrees high (top=87.4, bottom=-52.3)

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You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

Roosevelt Lake Bridge, Arizona, March 13, 2009

Roosevelt Lake Bridge was built in the early 1990s when the height of Roosevelt Dam was increased. Roosevelt Lake has never contained more water.

Panorama size: 1157 megapixels (41589 x 27822 pixels)
Input images: 225 (15 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 208.5 degrees wide by 139.5 degrees high (top=87.3, bottom=-52.2)

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

You can buy framed prints of this photograph.

Fish Creek Canyon, Apache Trail, Arizona, March 13, 2009

The Apache Trail makes a precipitous descent into Fish Creek Canyon between Canyon Lake and Apache Lake.

Panorama size: 1975 megapixels (71452 x 27650 pixels)
Input images: 406 (29 columns by 14 rows)
Field of view: 360.0 degrees wide by 139.3 degrees high (top=89.5, bottom=-49.9)

Fish-eye view

Little planet

Super Guppy, Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona, March 12, 2009

The Super Guppy was modified from a turbo-prop equipped YC-97J to carry large Saturn rocket stages for the Apollo Program.

Panorama size: 896 megapixels (29197 x 30719 pixels)
Input images: 160 (10 columns by 16 rows)
Field of view: 120.6 degrees wide by 126.9 degrees high (top=69.1, bottom=-57.9)

C-97G, KB-50J, KC-97G, C-135A, Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona, March 12, 2009

This view of the Pima Air Museum features a Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter, KB-50J Superfortress tankjer, KC-97G Stratotanker, and NASA C-135A Stratofreighter.

Panorama size: 1239 megapixels (43993 x 28173 pixels)
Input images: 255 (17 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 222.0 degrees wide by 142.2 degrees high (top=85.8, bottom=-56.4)

C-124, C-117, and C-133, Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona, March 12, 2009

The Pima Air Museum is one of the most comprehensive in the United States. This view features a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, a Douglas C-117 Skytrain, and a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster.

Panorama size: 1243 megapixels (44015 x 28244 pixels)
Input images: 240 (16 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 222.2 degrees wide by 142.6 degrees high (top=85.9, bottom=-56.7)

Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress Mothership, Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona, March 12, 2009

The Boeing NB-52A Superfortress Mothership launched three X-15s and three lifting bodies from 1959 to 1969,

Panorama size: 923 megapixels (39532 x 23364 pixels)
Input images: 180 (15 columns by 12 rows)
Field of view: 198.5 degrees wide by 117.3 degrees high (top=64.7, bottom=-52.5)

Dry Wash, Saguaro National Park, Arizona, March 12, 2009

Saguaros take 150 to 200 years to reach full growth.

Panorama size: 1565 megapixels (55282 x 28327 pixels)
Input images: 234 (18 columns by 13 rows)
Field of view: 277.9 degrees wide by 142.4 degrees high (top=87.5, bottom=-54.9)

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Kinney Road, Saguaro National Park, Arizona, March 12, 2009

Saguaros, Prickly Pear, and Cholla cacti on a hillside in Saguaro National Park.

Panorama size: 1191 megapixels (41205 x 28910 pixels)
Input images: 225 (15 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 207.3 degrees wide by 145.5 degrees high (top=90.0, bottom=-55.5)

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Saguaro Lake overlook, Apache Trail, Arizona, December 26, 2008

360-degree panorama overlooking an arm of Saguaro Lake. An ephemeral waterfall plunges into the lake as a flock of ducks floats nearby.

Panorama size: 1853 megapixels (71258 x 26014 pixels)
Input images: 495 (33 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 360.0 degrees wide by 131.4 degrees high (top=77.0, bottom=-54.4)

Saguaro Lake overlook little planet.

Giant Prints

My giant photographs are now available as framed prints, gallery wrapped canvas prints, rolled prints, and greeting cards. They are prepared by Fine Art America. Select from thousands of frames, mats, and wrap combinations and receive your fine art prints within one week! No PayPal account is necessary.

These are intricately detailed, wide-angle images created with a Gigapan robotic camera mount and Stittcher software. Most photos are available in a variety of sizes as large as 48" x 78". Some photos are available as large as 48" x 84".

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Wide Open Spaces of Arizona

2011 Calendar

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You can buy a 2011 Calendar featuring my very wide angle photographs of Arizona landmarks.

A dozen very wide angle 9-1/2" x 13-1/2" photographs of Arizona landmarks.

Roosevelt Dam
Superstition Mountains
Meteor Crater
Sunset Crater
Four Peaks
Papago Butttes
Saguaro National Park
Bulldog Canyon
Salt River
Casa Grande
Montezuma's Castle
Montezuma's Well

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