• By Adam Frucci
    Oct 1, 2009 2:40 PM 25,704
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    Custom Camera Rig Allows For a Stunning Vertical Panorama of a Giant Redwood

    Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols wanted to photograph a 300-foot-tall redwood in a dense forest with no clear lines of sight. So he built a custom camera rig to take tons of close-ups to stitch together.

    The result is a stunning composite of 83 different shots of this incredible tree. Look for a huge foldout of the image in the October issue of National Geographic, and here's a video of Nichols talking about the process of capturing the image.

    [NPR via Hack-a-Day via Make]


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