This panorama opens looking at an Anasazi ruin where it sits atop a hill overlooking the Colorado River in the Unkar Delta-Cardenas Creek area.  This watch tower, for lack of a more knowledgeable description, had a quite a view for the people who lived along the river so many centuries ago.

This panorama was my first effort at producing a 360 spherical panorama and I did everything wrong in the capture!  I used a wobbly tripod, I had no panorama head, I shot horizontally instead of vertically, my frame overlap was guess work by viewing through the LED screen, I shot jpg instead of RAW, and I had no software able to stitch so many frames.  

I sent my files to Larry Wieland, owner of GCPano.org, whose site inspired me try to shoot 360 panos.  Using my poorly captured files Larry was able to produce a panorama very similar to this.  Larry liked my eye for the Grand Canyon and used his production of my pano files on GCPano.org in the South Rim section.  Larry invited my to contribute to GCPano.org and so I jumped in.  I purchased a decent hiking tripod, a panorama head, and all the software needed for good stitching and post production work.  

The panorama on this page is one I reconstructed after having my files sit in the hard drive for three years.  With having now learned the tips and tricks of how to properly produce a 360 spherical panorama, I was able to take my old frames and produce this pano.  It is a very close replication of the one Larry and I co-produced in 2015.