Woah!!! Your 80 "best_of" pics are SO nice! And those "deep zoom panoramas" are something else -- especially on my 24" wide-screen monitor!
Couple of questions: You detoured to Rainbow Falls; how did you get back to the JMT?
Was Fish Valley a detour?
And how did you make that picture of the tent and the "JMT" letters in that first picture of the "best_of" 80 group of pictures?
see maps for each day linked from here
http://didnt.doit.wisc.edu/outdoor/Muir2009/calendar/log2010.htmlthe Fish Valley route reconnects just below Silver Pass if you can't take Goodale (was snowed in too much for my liking - steep long snow field compared to Silver, so we reconnected there, rather than after VVR on Bear Ridge as originally planned)
the JMT letters in the night shot were done with my headlight - 25 min exposure, but only a few seconds of writing letters with your headlight in the night sky while wondering how to stay warm as the temp kept dropping). The camera was totally wet from the dew that formed on it after dusk - took me half an hour to dry everything before I even started with these images.
re deep-zooms - I think I'll be purchasing one of those robotic tripod heads that now are much more affordable than I thought ($300), and much more portable than you may imagine, so next time I'll be doing some really deep deep zooms
http://www.thegadgetworks.com/forgot to add this - all the other Sierra Deep Zooms I have are here
http://didnt.doit.wisc.edu/outdoor/muir2009/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htmthose from 2009 are taken with the $100 Canon A590, so don't think you need the fancy gear for that. All you need to do is overlap the images real nice. My daughter shot the Donohue Pass deep zoom with that point and shoot this year, and I didn't even know she did that. Learned from observing, and her first one was a beauty.
The Palisade High Detail deep zooom is an example of how much better it can get if you use telephoto lenses and stitch together dozens of images, which with a robotic camera head gets you into the world of gigapixel images.
