Fortress Hays

As the semester winds down things are getting plenty busy. I had hoped to post a couple pictures of the art students chalking the FHSU sidewalks, but I never got over to the quad to photograph them yesterday. Seems to be the story of my life these days.

So instead I’ll post a panorama I shot over by the Sternberg Museum over Spring Break. It’s not much of a “Where in Hays?” for the locals, so we’ll dedicate this one to the travellers passing on I-70. Who knows… maybe you’ll even recognize your car whizzing by.

I shot this panorama just a week or two ago, completely unaware that I was capturing a snapshot in time that would soon be altered. So while this is not very challenging as a “Where in Hays?” [at least, for those of us here on campus], a more interesting question is “What’s currently happening at Jellison Bridge?”

With a little imagination you can see the smoke coming from the smokestack of this Felten Sculpture of a 4-4-0 locomotive and train westbound into Hays. Taken on a morning a bit sunnier than today…

For fun, let’s make this edition of “Where in Hays?” one for Google Earth users. If you know where this is send me (admin@fortresshays.com) your answer as a Google Earth placemark. Toot-l-oo!

[Update: Reader Daniel Bernasconi found it first - here's his placemark.]

There’s no better way to get a sense of place than being there yourself. But maybe the next best thing (visually) is a spherical (technically cubic) panorama. The image below is produced by stitching together a number of still photographs and published in the Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) format. You can interact with the image by dragging to pan (left & right, up & down) and using the Shift and Ctrl keys to zoom in and out (respectively). This one was shot last summer. I’ll try to post a new QTVR panorama each week. This one’s too easy for a “Where in Hays?”… unless you’ve never been here! No guesses if you’re a local.

This is one of the many Felten Sculptures around town. Do you know where he is?

[Update 3/27/07: Congratulations Suzy! Here he is in a larger context:]