Story Inn

For years I have heard people talk about the Story Inn ("One inconvenient location since 1851"), so I finally took my wife and found it.  It certainly is inconvenient but the drive was well worth it.  My guess is that you don't want to compete with the fall tourist crowds, but I highly recommend it for a tasty lunch.

There is a garden and other outbuildings adjacent to the inn, and while eating you can enjoy the interior decor.

Stonehead

I visited this place years ago and decided that I really should go back and take a picture.  It wasn't really exciting, but what did you expect!  If you want to know more simply Google "stonehead" + "Indiana".

Abstract Stereo Art

Now this is getting to be fun!  The top image started as a shot taken last winter in Providence combined with a photo of a butterfly taken in my garden last week.   By using various warp edits in Photo Shop it is possible to create a rather interesting 3D composite.

The side-by-side stereo is better resolution,

but the anaglyph is pretty good also!

West Baden Dome Panorama 2

I will leave West Baden after this one (I promise!).  I spent way too much time stitching this one in Hugin.  It consists of 52 photographs, all hand-held (no tripods allowed).  All together it took about 5 hours to find enough control points to create the nearly seamless panorama of 14000 x 3000 pixels.  Since it wouldn't fit on the blog, I converted it to a spherical panorama using the filter/distort/polar commands in Photo Shop.  This image has been reduced to 1500 pixels square from the original 4100.

West Baden Dome Panorama 1

This is a six shot stitched panorama inside the West Baden Hotel. I "squished" it a bit, so it doesn't look nearly as tall as it really is. 

Patterns in tiles

I liked the floor tiles in the West Baden Hotel, but the photos I took were all rather drab (bad lighting, bad photography).  I picked one and bounced it around in Photo Shop for a while and came up with this.

French Lick Bloomington Express

I am still in the process of working on the photos I took last weekend during our photo club outing.  I liked the old trains in French Lick so I decided to fire one up and have it go by in our back yard.