 
Urumqi Skyline
Taken from Red Hill Park, looking at the mountains.
To make this panorama I stitched five pictures together with Hugin, pulled the 280 MB file into Aperture for adjusting, exported the results as an 8-bit TIFF, compressed that with Photoshop, then pulled it back into Aperture again for storage. I've used the Shadows and Highlights sliders to pull out detail, as well as contrast and definition and (very) slight saturation boost.
It make the video I animated the original panorama in iMovie HD to make an H.264 QuickTime video. I used that in Abaltat Muse to compose the soundtrack, which I tweaked in GarageBand and saved into iTunes. I then pulled both video and soundtrack into iMovie 08, combined them, added titles, and exported as another H.264 file for uploading to Flickr.
Location: Red Hill Park (Hōngshān Gōngyuán, 红山公园), Ürümqi (ئۈرۈمچی, Wūlǔmùqí, 乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى, Xīnjiāng Wéiwú’ěr Zìzhìqū, 新疆维吾尔自治区), People’s Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, 中华人民共和国)
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Castle Mountain beyond the Bow River
En route to Banff there’s a little spot one can pull off the trans-Canada highway and admire the Bow Valley. The fence is new since I was last there (two decades ago!), and the ambiance is more truck-stop than national park, but the scenery is wonderful and gives a taste of what awaits further in the Rockies.
This panorama was stitched from five images using Hugin, and cleaned up in Aperture.
I've made an animated video of this panorama, if you want a closer look.
Location: Castle Mountain Lookout along the Trans-Canada Highway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Castle Mountain above Bow River
En route to Banff there’s a little spot one can pull off the trans-Canada highway and admire the Bow Valley. The fence is new since I was last there (two decades ago!), and the ambiance is more truck-stop than national park, but the scenery is wonderful and gives a taste of what awaits further in the Rockies.
This panorama was stitched from five images using Hugin, and cleaned up in Aperture.
To make this video I took the original panorama and imported it into iMovie HD, so I could animate it using Ken Burns effects. I exported the result as an H.264 QuickTime file. I used this file and Abaltat Muse to create a soundtrack, which I edited in GarageBand and saved in iTunes. I then used iMovie 08 to import the video file and soundtrack, as well as add titles, and exported the final cut as another H.264 QuickTime file for uploading to Flickr.
Location: Castle Mountain Lookout along the Trans-Canada Highway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Construction at the Forbidden CIty
In 2006 Beijing was getting ready for the Olympics. The Forbidden City was under massive reconstruction, and although they had made an effort to compensate with displays and decorated hoardings, it was still a bit disappointing.
This panorama is stitched from four JPEG images using Hugin, then cleaned up in Aperture.
To make the video I animated the panorama used the Ken Burns effects in iMovie HD and exported the result as an H.264 QuickTime file. I used that movie in Abaltat Muse to create the soundtrack, which I exported as a MIDI file and tweaked in GarageBand until it wasn't too bad, then sent to iTunes. Once that was done I imported the video into iMovie 08, added the music and titles, and exported the final cut as another H.264 QuickTime file for uploading to Flickr.
Location: Forbidden City (Zǐjìn Chéng, 紫禁城) now known as the Palace Museum (Gùgōng Bówùyùan, 故宫博物院), Beijing (Běijīng Shì (北京市), People’s Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, 中华人民共和国)
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Zhoukoudian — slow panorama
A panorama from the Peking Man Site. I think the town is Zhoukoudian, but I’m afraid my English-language sources aren’t clear on whether the site is named after the town, or if the town has another name.
This panorama was stitched from 13 images using Hugin, then cleaned up in Aperture.
To make the video I animated the panorama used the Ken Burns effects in iMovie HD and exported the result as an H.264 QuickTime file. I used that movie in Abaltat Muse to create the soundtrack, which I exported as a MIDI file and tweaked in GarageBand until it wasn't too bad, then sent to iTunes. Once that was done I imported the video into iMovie 08, added the music and titles, and exported the final cut as another H.264 QuickTime file for uploading to Flickr.
Location: Zhoukoudian (Zhōukǒudiàn, 周口店), Fangshan District, (Fángshān Qū, 房山区), Beijing (Běijīng Shì (北京市), People’s Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, 中华人民共和国)
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