 Sanctuary - A World Wide Panorama December 17-21, 2004 |
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Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary, Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, California, USA
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| Lat: 36° 37' 39" N |
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Long: 121° 56' 18" W |
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December 19, 2004, 9:03 AM local time |
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Equipment: Nikon 8700 with FC-E9 fisheye lens, suspended from a Sutton FlowForm 30 kite using my own BFKK radio-controlled aerial camera cradle. Two images were stitched at the horizon using PTMac and Photoshop CS, and the final movie was created using CubicConverter. |
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The Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary has a shoreline of 276 miles and contains 5,322 square miles of ocean, centered on the marine canyon of Monterey Bay. The canyon is more than 10,000 ft (3 km) deep a..
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| Photo: Brooks Leffler |
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Trabuco Canyon, California, USA
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| Lat: 33° 35' 42.36" N |
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Long: 117° 35' 44.88" W |
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| Date/Time: |
21 December 2004 12:15 local time |
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Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm fisheye, Manfrotto 303SPH, PTMac, Photoshop CS, CubicConverter, CubicConnector and a pot of coffee :) |
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Strybing Arboretum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 46' 0" N |
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Long: 122° 28' 10" W |
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December 19, 2004, 1:20pm local time |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)/ES-F, 18-55mm lens (at 18mm)
Tiltall tripod/modified Kaidan KIWI 260/265 pan head
Photoshop CS and QTVRAS software |
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Sacramento, California, USA
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| Lat: 38° 34' 4" N |
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Long: 121° 26' 2" W |
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December 21, 2004 12:22 PM |
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Equipment: Camera - Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35 Lens at 18mm with Really Right Stuff spherical bracket on a Manfrotto panorama head |
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Napa Valley, California, USA
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| Lat: 38° 30' 00" N |
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Long: 122° 23' 00" W |
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December 18, 2004 / 4:00 pm Pacific Standard Time |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 w/10.5mm lens. Kaidan QP IV panohead. Shooting Schedule: 6-around, 1 up, 2 down.
Macintosh OS X 10.3.7 workflow...
Pre-stitch work: PhotoShop CS w/Lensfix & defishing w/Panotools & Optipix "Refocus" plug-in. Stitched with Stitcher 4.0.2. Pano conversions done with CubicConverter 2.0. "Standard" pano: Hotspots laid in with CubicConnector 2.0. "Full Screen" Pano: Hotspot creation & interactive wiring w/LiveStage Pro 4.5 (QuickTime based authoring).
Napa Valley "location map" (in full-screen version) is based on downloaded digital 15' .DEM files from the USGS Web site (your tax dollars at work); rendered in Bryce 4.0; hand-tinted in PhotoShop.
Cigar during shoot: Hoya de Monterrey "Excaliber" - delicious. |
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Napa Valley is world famous for its wines & cuisine - but there is another side to Napa Valley that most visitors (and many locals) do not experience.
One such place...
Lake Hennessey, approximately 40 miles north of San Francisco (as the eagle flies), is ..
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| Photo: Jim Scott |
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Santa Clarita, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 22' 31.66" N |
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Long: 118° 25' 33.1" W |
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Dec. 21, about 12:30 PST. |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with Sigma 8mm fisheye lens; 4 frames. PTMac, Photoshop, CubicConverter, LiveStage Pro. |
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A sanctuary for dogs, birds, and other animals rescued from shelters or elsewhere: New Leash On Life's Education, Rehabilitation and Adoption (E.R.A.) Center.
Many of the animals taken in here come from shelters (where they were not adopted) because of..
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| Photo: Ken Stuart |
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Angeles National Forest, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 19' 52.86" N |
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Long: 118° 20' 40.16" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 19, 2004 11:00am PST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with Sigma 8mm fisheye lense and panorama rig. |
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The Wildlife WayStation is a nonprofit organization that operates a few miles from my home. They accept wild animals of all varieties, and provide them with a safe retirement or place them in..
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| Photo: Shelley Stuart |
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Denver, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 45' 0.59" N |
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Long: 104° 56' 56.12" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 18, 2004/1730 MST |
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Equipment: Nikon D100 camera, Nikon 10.5mm DX fisheye lens, Manfrotto 303 SPH spherical panorama head
Nikon View, Nikon Capture, PT Mac, RealViz Stitcher, and Adobe Photoshop CS software
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I consider the Denver Zoo to be a sanctuary for both the animals and for myself.
The animals, housed in a "man made" sanctuary, are protected from their predators.
My sanctuary away from home is tropical fish tanks at the "Tropical Discovery" exhibit hall. My ..
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| Photo: John Blake |
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Located on the East Slope of Lookout Mountain, Golden, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 42' 11.95" N |
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Long: 105° 13' 32.99" W |
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| Date/Time: |
03:10:30 PM 12/19/2004 |
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Equipment: D100 & Sigma 8mm.
Homemade pano head (ugly,) Monopod
Adobe Photoshop CS, PTGUI, PanoTools & PanoCube |
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America's First Catholic Saint
Mother Cabrini was born in Italy on July 15, 1850. Thirty years later, she founded the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. In the early 1900s she was sent to America by Pope Leo XIII, where she established her first school and o..
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| Photo: John Fellers |
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
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| Lat: 41° 11' 30" N |
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Long: 73° 12' 52" W |
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December 21, 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with Nikkor 10.5mm Lens - Manfrotto Tripod with Jasper Engineering Pano Head - Mac DP800 - Realviz Stitcher - Photoshop CS - CubicConverter |
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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| Lat: 38° 53' 21.79" N |
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Long: 77° 3' 0.1" W |
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December 18, 8:00 pm |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Kaidan panhead. |
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In the spirit of Sanctuary, I think that the Lincoln Memorial nicely represents the theme. I think of the memorial as both a physical and a spiritual santuary...
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| Photo: Erik Olsen |
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Mount Saint Albans, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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| Lat: 38° 55' 45" N |
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Long: 77° 4' 19" W |
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December 18, 2004 1:30 PM EST |
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Equipment: Panotools, Photoshop, Apple QuickTime VR, Canon Rebel, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan head, |
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The "Little Sanctuary," built in 1902, provides sanctuary at the family and community level. This small chapel holds services for the Saint Albans upper-school students (8th to 12th grades). Many graduates, including my father and I, come back to this chapel..
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| Photo: Skip Steuart |
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Point Washington State Forest, Northwest Florida, USA
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| Lat: 30° 18' 52" N |
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Long: 86° 05' 22" W |
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| Date/Time: |
19 December 2004 12:45 p.m. CST |
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Equipment: Canon 300D (Digital Rebel) digital SLR camera, 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 18mm (equivalent to 28mm film camera), ISO 400, RAW, f.8 at 1/200 second. Hand held. Stitched with Apple's QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 1.01. Graphic modifications in Adobe Photoshop CS. |
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 33° 48' 23" N |
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Long: 84° 8' 44" W |
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December 21st, 2004 17:52pm |
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Equipment: Dimage 7Raynox 180ProPanorama Tools |
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Winter Solstice on the top of Stone Mountain, Georgia USA.
Atlanta is known as the "City of Trees" but to many it might as well be the "City of Traffic".
Stone Mountain, is a sanctuary for hiking, bicycling, canoeing, grilling, or just enjoying the view.
Here..
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| Photo: Sacha Griffin |
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Clairmont Road, across from PDK Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 33° 52' 18" N |
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Long: 84° 18' 36" W |
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4:15pm on December 21, 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, 17-40L, Kaidan VR Arm for the Manfrotto VR Head, Stitcher 3.5, Make Cubic. |
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This is a park in DeKalb county for kids to find sanctuary from playing in the street. Birds and dogs are welcome and adults too. The pergola offers protection from the sun a feeling of being in a protected space...
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| Photo: Robert Thien |
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Near Picabo, Idaho, USA
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| Lat: 43° 18' 51" N |
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Long: 114° 9' 9" W |
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December 21st 2004 - 09:09 MST |
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Equipment: Canon D60, Eos 17-40 @ 17mm f/9 1/90, Kaidan Quickpan III, PTMac-Xpoints-Xblend, CubicConverter, QTVRAS |
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Silver Creek Preserve is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy of Idaho, a private non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and wat..
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| Photo: Jim Liesenfeld |
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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| Lat: 30° 0' 17.21" N |
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Long: 90° 6' 24.7" W |
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December 21, 2004 at about 5:30 pm |
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Equipment: D100, Sigma 14mm, PeaceRiver 3Sixty |
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Neutral Ground - Most cities call them medians. About two hundred years ago the US designated the median on Canal Street as a 'Neutral Ground' (a sort of sanctuary) where French & Spanish Catholic Creoles and American Protestant could meet in peace and con..
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| Photo: Ray Broussard |
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Rainbow's End Farm, Brooksville, Maine, USA
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| Lat: 44° 20' 45" N |
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Long: 68° 44' 45" W |
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| Date/Time: |
Dec 21 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon 990-- Kaidan 990 VR Mount-- PSCS -- VR Worx |
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A Mans House Is His Castle"... a haven of safety and privacy... protected by our constitution. Within the house is the most important room to family... The Kitchen... a sanctuary for modeling life skills on to our children... sharing meals & morals.. just ..
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| Photo: Larry Cassis |
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