The Bering Sea is not known for pleasant weather and flat seas. It's usually either windy, foggy, or both in the summer. So we took advantage of the perfect conditions we've been having and made the five mile trip south to Otter Island for a survey. While out on the boat, I snapped a long series of panoramic shots of St. Paul Island from the water. Whenever I make a panorama I always like to see what they look like as "tiny worlds". It only takes a few steps in Photoshop to wrap the image into a sphere. So here's what the continent of St. Paul would look like. A list of the dominate hills from west to east (top of the world going clockwise) are as follows: Rush, Ridge, Cone, Crater, Slope, Bogoslov, and Polovina - directly behind the two water tanks in town. The steep cliffs (dark patches on the coastline) are where we do the bulk of our seabird monitoring, and are listed clockwise as follows: High Bluffs (noon), Ridgewall (1 to 3 o'clock), Zapadni (5 o'clock), Tolstoi (9 o'clock), and Reef (11 o'clock).
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM +1.4x, ISO- 320 f/5.6 @ 1/3200 sec, 15 image panorama stitched and distorted in Photoshop CS.
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