Category Archives: landscapes

Going to Tristan the T. rex’s dig site

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

I guess it was kinda hard to miss that the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin is getting a real Tyrannosaurus rex. I’ll have much to say about the beast here on dinosaurpalaeo over the course of the next few years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aves, Botany, Dinosauria, historical buildings etc., insects, landscapes, Mammal pic, Maniraptora, non-palaeo, photography, Theropoda, Travels, Tristan, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus | 7 Comments

Zion National Park part 2

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Before I get this post about my Zion NP visit started let me first link a few very handy sites for the park. Here is the National Park Service homepage for Zion NP, on which you can find all you … Continue reading →

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On the way to Zion National Park

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, I am interrupting the irregular series of posts on the Posidonia Shale for a few photos from last summer’s work trip to Utah. For one thing I need a break from all the Urweltmuseum Hauff stuff. Another reason is … Continue reading →

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Using Hugin part 2: medium

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Last time, I told you how to use the fully-automatic mode of hugin, and how to make a few minor corrections to improve results. Today, we will look at more complex panoramas, and some more manual work in the program. … Continue reading →

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Using Hugin part 1: easy!

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

I’ve previously described how I use the panorama stitching program hugin – in my opinion the best program out there. It is free, it can be extremely easy to use, and it gives you the opportunity to do every step … Continue reading →

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Zion National Park preview

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Just a preview of many more posts to come: a sunset in Zion National Park (wiki). The weather was not optimal, as it was extremely hazy. Still, HDR allowed some nice pictures to come out of this 🙂 more on … Continue reading →

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Theropod Thursday 26: more raven

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Just now I posted my recent shots of a wild raven, in Berlin of all places. Just for fun, here are my until-then only wild raven photos from Rügen.

Posted in Aves, Dinopics, Dinosauria, landscapes, Maniraptora, non-palaeo, plants, Theropoda | 3 Comments

Holiday post: S’more Baltic Sea impressions

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

I am currently on holiday at the Baltic sea, and only back in Berlin for one evening. Internet access is terribly slow on my USB stick, thus I wasn’t able to post the last few days. Before, I attended a … Continue reading →

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EAVP 2012 dinosaur track field trip

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Yesterday, I went on the 1st Field Trip to various dinosaur track sites. It was a very nicely organized trip, and I’d like to thank the organizers Alberto Cobos, Rafael Royo-Torres and Francisco ‘Paco’ Gascó (and anyone else I missed) … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Dinosauria, EAVP 2012, landscapes, photogrammetry, plants, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Travels | 3 Comments

EAVP part 4

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Today is the last day with talks at EAVP 2012, including mine. It’s going to be a rather boring affair, as I will talk about the problems with range of motion analyses on fossils.The rest of the session and the … Continue reading →

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Holiday post: more Baltic Sea impressions

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

The Baltic Sea coast in Germany makes for a surprisingly varied landscape – if you can call anything that doesn’t get any higher than 30 or 40 m above sea level “varied”. In any case, there’s a  lot of beautiful … Continue reading →

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Theropod Thursday 13

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Back from a very (too) short holiday at the Baltic Sea, and ready to resume blogging. However, there’s too much on my plate tonight for a long post, so I’ll simply throw a theropod photo your way that I took … Continue reading →

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Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 6: Dinosaur National Monument

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

My big 2003 trip around the Central US (previous posts AMNH 1, AMNH 2, Salt Lake City, Denver 1, Denver 2, SMA dig 1 and SMA dig 2) also took me to the Dinosaur National Monument. That place has changed … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, DNM, landscapes, non-palaeo, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Travels | 5 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 4: The SMA’s dig in Wyoming 1

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

During my great US trip in 2003 I visited many museums and spent a lot of time camping in the Rockies, Shoshone National Forest, Yellowstone, and many other places. The highlight, however, was volunteering at the dinosaur dig of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, Dinosauria, landscapes, non-palaeo, Ornithischa, Sauriermuseum Aathal, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus, Theropoda, Travels | 7 Comments

How to…….. 2.1: Panorama images 1

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

I’ve been fooling around with panorama images for a while now. There’s simply too many things in the world that do not fit well on a standard photograph. The front of a palace, a ship, a bridge, cliffs – many … Continue reading →

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