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New user? QuickTime VR Panoramas
To view these files, you will need to have QuickTime VR installed, which is a standard feature of QuickTime. If your version of QuickTime doesn't have QuickTime VR support, or you don't have QuickTime installed at all <gasp!>, you can get it at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/.Eventually I hope to have a dedicated page for each panorama with better descriptions. But this will do for now... :-)
July 1, 1999 - atop Mount Douglas on Canada Day: download - 682067 bytes
This is the first QuickTimeVR movie I ever made. It's a really nice view. You can see Victoria, BC, as well as the ocean. Lots of trees and such. My friend Alex Wadsworth helped me set up this shoot.
July 2, 1999 - my messy office in the basement: download - 647045 bytes
This room is where have browser, will travel was created! The walls were pink before I lived here, and yes, I wish they weren't.
Update: July 5, 2000: That house has now been completely renovated (by my father's renovation company actually). The area I took that picture in no longer exists in that form.
July 2, 1999 - my office at work (CEISS): download - 658477 bytes
This is my office at a previous job, at CEISS. You can see my task list on the whiteboard.
February 26, 2000 - Whitewater creek in Koksilah River Provincial Park on Vancouver Island: download - 289369 bytes
Taken with a smallish digital camera, but an admirable job considering the light conditions weren't too good.
July 1, 2000 - The Gorge Waterway, via the Kinsmen Gorge Park, on Canada Day: download - 836644 bytes
QTVR panoramas with Alex are a Canada Day tradition now. This year, Justin Louie joined us! I spent a lot of time in this park between the ages of 12 and 16, when I lived one block away.
July 1, 2000 - The Gorge Waterway, via the Selkirk Trestle Bridge, on Canada Day: download - 1034584 bytes
The Selkirk Trestle used to be a vital artery of the railway system on Vancouver island until the 1930s (don't quote me on the date though). If I remember correctly, there was a major disaster with this bridge, a passenger train derailed and people died. Now it's part of the Galloping Goose trail, which is part of the Canada Trail, a trail which goes all the way across Canada -- the longest continuous trail in the world. (of course, the trail portion on Vancouver Island doesn't count towards the continuous portion of the trail, being on an island and all. ;-))
Update: July 5, 2000, from Andrew Jung: "Actually Jim, no one died on the Selkirk trestle... at least not the one you are thinking of. The one that you are thinking of is down the way in your picture. Where the now Bay Street or Point Ellis Bridge now stands. This used to be a trolley route and the trolley was carrying too many people and the bridge collapsed killing people as you say. The Selkirk testle was in use until 1989."
July 2, 2000 - Saxe Point, on the rocks: download - 839906 bytes
Saxe Point is a beautiful park in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Esquimalt is a municipality in the Greater Victoria Capital District, where I live at the time this panorama was taken.
July 2, 2000 - Saxe Point, near the Arbutus trees: download - 839858 bytes
Another panorama from Saxe Point. This one was taken maybe 50 meters from the first pano, and is close to 2 very nice Arbutus trees, as the title implies.
July 2, 2000 - 90mm Anti-Aircraft gun at Fort Rodd Hill National Park: download - 846976 bytes
The first of three panos around this 90mm AA gun, in the parking lot of this historical military site.
July 3, 2000 - The Kinsol Trestle, along the Koksilah River: download - 1410498 bytes
The Kinsol Trestle (info page, scroll down half way), is just breathtaking. No picture can do justice to the size of this structure. This panorama is larger than previous panoramas (it's over 1.3 MB) because it was shot with a better camera than previous panoramas.
