serpent mound

on april 27 the family went to the serpent mound in peebles, oh which turns out to be largest pre-columbian earthwork east of the mississippi. it was a glorius day and a great time was had by all. there is a very old steel tower on the site where one can gain a bird's eye view of the mound. this is required because the serpent mound is on the highest ground around. i took a series of images and stitched them together into a panoramic image of the entire mound.

before i decided i wanted to publish this image, i started investigating some of the various copyleft licenses i might use to assure my name accompanies any derivative works in perpetuity and i thought my head was going to explode. i have therefore decided to release this into the public domain. enjoy.

the image was photographed by dave shemano on may 27th 2008 from the steel tower at the serpent mound. it is comprised of 3 images stitched together with hugin. the result was then loaded into the gimp for perspective correction and a small patch of asphalt in the lower right corner of the image was made into grass. it was finally scaled to 2304x864 so that it could be used as my desktop wallpaper that spans two monitors at 1152x864.

peace