 Sanctuary - A World Wide Panorama December 17-21, 2004 |
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Assateague Island National Seashore, Berlin, Maryland, USA
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| Lat: 38° 12' 46" N |
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Long: 75° 8' 47" W |
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December 21, 2004, 7:20pm EST |
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Equipment: Canon digital EOS, Kaidan, Apple/Mac, Photoshop, Illustrator, Realviz, PanoTools, MakeCubic, revolVR, surfboard, winter jacket, hat, gloves & long underwear. |
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Surfing with dolphins and pelicans while the wild ponies and Sika deer graze the marsh makes Assateague Island National Seashore my personal sanctuary. This moonlit image was taken under a star-filled sky about an hour after sunset. I'm sitting next to my 6' 0..
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| Photo: Art Baltrotsky |
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Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland, USA
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| Lat: 38° 36' 0" N |
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Long: 76° 49' 41" W |
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07:36/12.21.2004 |
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Equipment: I photograph with a Kodak DX7440 and a Kodak Ektanar wide angle lens attachment. My tripod is a small Bogan 3001. I use a Kiadan 360 panoramic head and have attached a bubble level to it. My software is Photoshop Express, Archsoft PanoramaMaker, Apple's MakeCubic and QuickTime Pro. These run on my Apple QuickSilver G4 with 10.2.8. |
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My Winter Solstice Panorama shows my personal Sanctuary. The basement of my home was only concrete walls and floor with dark wood beams overhead when my wife and I began work to make it a useful, livable space. We planned and completed almost all the work ours..
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| Photo: Walter Sistrunk |
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Hackley Park, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
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| Lat: 43° 14' 2.1" N |
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Long: 86° 15' 7.7" W |
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December 21, 2004 11:05PM EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 - Nikon 10.5mm - Manfrotto 3224SPH Head w/ Level - Gossen Starlite meter |
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This is the manger scene at our local central park, Hackley Park in Muskegon, Michigan. The scene is representative of the time of year surrounding Winter Solstice and the religious holidays that follow. "The Crib" serves as a sanctuary to millions of people ..
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| Photo: K. Wayne Degner |
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Ferndale, Michigan, USA
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| Lat: 42° 27' 39.6" N |
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Long: 83° 8' 6.36" W |
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December 21, 2004. 8:00pm EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D1X, 10.5mm Lens, Custom Pan Head. Stitched with Stitcher 3.5 |
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Sanctuary is a big word, meaning many things to many people. To me Sanctuary is a place to escape the everyday grind, to just sit back and relax. So what could be more relaxing then spending a few hours with friends at your friendly neighborhood pub. In this c..
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| Photo: Mark Houston |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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| Lat: 44° 58' 38.93" N |
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Long: 93° 15' 36.97" W |
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12/21/2004 13:50 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III, Panorama Tools, PTGui, Enblend, Photoshop. |
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Como Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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| Lat: 44° 58' 48" N |
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Long: 93° 08' 59" W |
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December 19, 2004 - 03:00 UTC (09:00 CST) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 8700 with wide angle lens / Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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| Lat: 44° 58' 13" N |
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Long: 93° 17' 23" W |
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December 21, 2004 3PM |
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Equipment: NIkon D1x, 10.5 mm fisheye, 303 sph head, 6 images around, 1 up, 3 down. Once I had 8 solid images, I used Stitcher to stitch and to generate the QTVR. I also used Photowarp to generate the full screen pano. Maybe I could make my workflow more complicated! |
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This is the Cowles Conservatory at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was truly a sanctuary on December 21 as the temperature inside was around 70 degrees F (21C?) and the temp outside was about 0 degrees F. It is wonderful to be surrounded by flowers, t..
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| Photo: Scott Stillman |
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Valley Park, Missouri, USA
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| Lat: 38° 32' 0" N |
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Long: 90° 31' 56.53" W |
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December 18, 2004 - 14:01 UTC (8:01 AM local time) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4300, tripod, Panavue software |
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America's largest facilities for the conservation of birds.
World Bird Sanctuary's mission is to preserve the earth's biological diversity and to secure the future of threatened bird species in their natural environments. They fulfill that mission through educ..
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| Photo: David Diederich |
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North of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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| Lat: 32° 29' 1" N |
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Long: 106° 54' 45" W |
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December 19, 2004, 4:00 pm local |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 8 lens, Kaidan Kiwi+ pan head
Photoshop CS, Panorama Tools, PTMac |
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What remains of Fort Selden is located approximately 13 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. The post was established in 1865 to provide protection for settlers in the southern N..
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| Photo: John Mitchener |
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133 Canal Street and Manhattan Bridge Plaza, New York City, New York, USA
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| Lat: 40° 42' 59.99" N |
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Long: 73° 59' 43.03" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 21, 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 DSLR with
Nikkor 8mm/2.8 fisheye lens |
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The WWP December 2004 Sanctuary event gave me an opportunity to revisit the Mahayana Buddhist Temple in New York City. I've come here many times in the past usually after my elder sister has reminded me to do so to pay respects to my ancestors. We bring fruits..
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| Photo: Jook Leung |
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Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Lat: 39° 58' 7.26" N |
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Long: 75° 10' 19.19" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 21, 2004, 19:54 UTC, (13:54 EST) |
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Equipment: Canon 1Ds; Sigma 12-24mm lens, Bogen 3221 tripod with Manfrotto 438 levelling head and Jasper Pano head. |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Lat: 39° 56' 18.79" N |
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Long: 75° 9' 17.24" W |
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December 21, 2004 |
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A part of the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, a free art school and gallery in South Philadelphia, this literal sanctuary was originally the Episcopal Church of the Evangelists and was purchased by Mr. Fleisher in 1922 when the church closed down. The Memoria..
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| Photo: Yischon Liaw |
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Lat: 40° 37' 11.28" N |
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Long: 75° 22' 48.36" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 18, 2004 1:00pm EST |
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Equipment: Sony MVC-CD500 shooting for maximum dynamic range - 12 images f/8@250 and 12 images f/8@80. Merged images in Photoshop 6.0 using Fred Miranda DRI action. Resulting photos were stitched in PanaVue Image Assembler v2.12a. |
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The Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was founded by a group of Moravians, members of a church that traces its heritage to pre-Reformation fifteenth-century central Europe.
On April 2, 1741, William Allen deeded 500 acres at the junction of th..
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| Photo: Richard Wall |
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Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA
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| Lat: 41° 58' 9" N |
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Long: 71° 26' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 20, 2004 12:40 EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8 mm fisheye lens, Kaidan Universal head, 4 shots around 1 up. PTMac, Photoshop and CubicConverter |
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Providence Zen Center was founded in 1972 and is the head temple of the Kwan Um School of Zen. The Founding Teacher of this School is the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, who is called Dae Soen Sa Nim (Great Honored Zen Teacher) by his students. This is the Dharm..
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| Photo: Edward Huff |
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Congaree Swamp National Monument. South Carolina, USA
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| Lat: 33° 54' 15" N |
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Long: 80° 53' 11" W |
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| Date/Time: |
12/21/04 11:00 AM EST |
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Equipment: Coolpix 990 with EC-F9 fisheye. Kadian head. Panoweaver on Mac OS X to stitch. |
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This is a major biological sanctuary and a spiritual one for me, located 20 miles outside of the capital of South Carolina, Columbia. It is "the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States. It is a designate..
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| Photo: Don Barth |
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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| Lat: 35° 8' 53" N |
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Long: 90° 3' 3" W |
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| Date/Time: |
January 20, 2004 - 11:30am Local Time (CST) |
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Equipment: Canon 20d
Canon EFS 10-22 Lens
Shot using modified Spherical head on monopod
Three rows (4,8,4) along with nadir shot.
Raw Conversion with DXO
Stitching done with Realviz Stitcher
Hand Blended in Photoshop along with basic image adjustments |
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Fort Worth Botanic Garden Conservatory, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 32° 44' 24.65" N |
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Long: 97° 21' 48.67" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 21, 2004 0900 hrs GMT -6 |
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Equipment: Nikon 990 w/FC-E8 Fisheye, Kaidan Kiwi990, Panoweaver Pro, Panocube+ |
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Sanctuary "The Oasis" - Fort Worth Botanic Garden Conservatory
Luxuriant tropical foliage fills the 10,000 square foot (1,110 square meters) Conservatory. Explore the winding paths to discover a kaleidoscope of Orchids, bromeliads and exotic trees f..
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| Photo: Dave Albright |
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Texas Woman's University campus, Denton, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 33° 13' 46.23" N |
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Long: 97° 7' 43.04" W |
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| Date/Time: |
December 21, 2004 - 1:43 UTC (December 20, 17:43 CST) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995+Kiwi 995 with the Nikon FC-E8 fisheye lens. Stitching was done with PTGui + Meticulous tweaking in Photoshop due to the one-second exposure length and high winds (which don't play nicely together). |
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