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Çatalhöyük – Building 80 Equirectangular

Building 80 QTVR, originally uploaded by catalhoyuk. After posting a QTVR of Building 80 from this past summer’s excavation season to the Çatalhöyük website, I thought I’d also share the flattened equirectangular 360 image it was based upon.


Artifact Photo Scales

Scale Template

After coming across friend and colleague Colleen Morgan’s post about artifact photo scales, I thought I’d throw in my two cents on the subject. Scales in archaeological photography are an ongoing curiosity for me. As necessary as they are to give a sense of size to the photos’ subject, it so often appears that little attention is [...]


Ladder Assistance

Ladder Assistance, originally uploaded by jpquinlan. After much patience, waiting for the area to be cleaned and the osteology team to finish removing the child burial, we waited a little more for a passing cloud to diffuse my harsh shadow over the archaeology.


Testing SPi-V Panorama Viewer with Flickr

Giza Pyramids, originally uploaded by djsnapshot. Just discovered this great tool to render equirectangular photos much like Quicktime VR’s. I had been wondering if Flickr’s new ability to post photos might also enable the possibility to post QTVR’s directly within the site. That doesn’t seem to be the case, but SPi-V seems like a great [...]


Photo to Comic

Anies Photo Recording, originally uploaded by Miss_Colleen. Was surprised to see some of my photos being used for a comic! That’s brilliant! I kind of envisioned something like this when I took the shots, but never bothered to do anything with them myself. Glad to see they’ve been found and put to use!


Setting up QTVR rig in Ilyaslar, Turkey

Setting up QTVR rig in Ilyaslar, Turkey, originally uploaded by djsnapshot. I can’t believe this was already three years ago!