waltersanford's photoblog

Showcasing some of my digital photography and videography.

Diptics: Henry Moore Sundial Sculpture

The following gallery of four-panel diptychs features several photos of the Henry Moore Sundial Sculpture, Sundial Plaza, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois USA. The sculpture is a type of sundial that is sometimes referred to as a "bowstring" equatorial sundial. See also an annotated photo of the sculpture that illustrates how a “bowstring” equatorial sundial is simply a reduced model of the Earth.

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Tech Tips: The preceding composite images were created using Apple "Aperture," Adobe "Photoshop," and "Diptic" app for Apple iOS mobile devices. For details, see "Advanced technique for creating Diptic 'photo tiles'" (one of my recent Posterous posts). The border is five (5) pixels wide, rather than my usual preference of 10 pixels.

Copyright © 2012 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved. www.wsanford.com

Diptics: University of Colorado Boulder

For more than a decade, I was actively involved with several K-13 education outreach initiatives of the American Meteorological Society. I was fortunate to be able to visit Boulder, Colorado USA for several in-service training workshops for science teachers. We stayed at Kittredge Complex, University of Colorado, for every workshop.

The following gallery of three-panel diptychs features several photos of the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Shown clockwise from the top: Kittredge Complex, with a spectacular view of the Flatirons in the background (part of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains); the John Garrey Tippit Memorial Sundial, an equatorial sundial; and the Colorado Scale Model Solar System (notice my reflection and the Fiske Planetarium and Science Center behind me).

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Tech Tips: The preceding composite images were created using Apple "Aperture," Adobe "Photoshop," and "Diptic" app for Apple iOS mobile devices. For details, see "Advanced technique for creating Diptic 'photo tiles'" (one of my recent Posterous posts). The border of Photos 1 and 3 is five (5) pixels; 10 pixels for Photos 2 and 4.

Copyright © 2012 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved. www.wsanford.com

Diptics: "Bowstring" equatorial sundials

The following gallery of four-panel diptychs features photos of two "bowstring" equatorial sundial sculptures: 1) the Robert Adzema Hyatt Regency Jersey City Sundial, Jersey City, New Jersey USA, a combination "bowstring" equatorial sundial, noon mark solar calendar, and horizontal sundial (shown in the two upper panels); and 2) the Henry Moore Sundial Sculpture, Sundial Plaza, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois USA (shown in the two lower panels).

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Tech Tips: The preceding composite images were created using Apple "Aperture," Adobe "Photoshop," and "Diptic" app for Apple iOS mobile devices. For details, see "Advanced technique for creating Diptic 'photo tiles'" (one of my recent Posterous posts). The border is five (5) pixels wide, rather than my usual preference of 10 pixels.

Photos © Copyright 2012 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved. www.wsanford.com