It was a splendid day in the Bay Area, cool, breezy and crystal clear. I set up my tripod at the Lawrence Hall of Science near the top of the Berkeley Hills and waited for the Campanile on campus below to chime the hour.
The view extends out over the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (the prominent domed structure is the historic cyclotron atom-smasher), and the University of California campus, to San Francisco across the bay, and out through the Golden Gate to the Farallon Islands. The sculpture to the left refracts light through prisms onto its shady side. The tall silver pipes down the hill are aeolian chimes -- as the wind blows past they make music, something between an organ and a humpback whale.
Visit my virtual reality panoramas collection, part of the Geo-Images Project, at http://WWW-GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/QTVR/QTVR.html.
