 World Heritage - a World Wide Panorama June 19-21, 2004 |
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Bellerivestrasse at Zurichhorn, Zurich, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 48' 0" N |
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Long: 8° 53' 0" E |
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15:30 PM local time GMT+1 |
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Equipment: SpheroCam, Nikon 16mm lens, Photoshop, LiveStage Pro |
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Sankt Gall, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 25' 24" N |
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Long: 9° 22' 38" E |
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2:35 pm GMT+1 |
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Equipment: Taken with an Roundshot 28/220 with a nikon 1.4/28mm lens, f.11 at 1/60. Handheld. |
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Lucerne, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 3' 40" N |
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Long: 8° 18' 21" E |
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06.21.2004 12:10 Central European Time |
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Equipment: Taken with a Canon G5, 7.19mm x wide convertor, equivalent to 27mm in portrait orientation, f.6.3 at 1/320 second. Mounted on a selfmade panohead. Stitched with PtGui/PanoTools/autopano converted with panocube pro. |
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View from the Rathaussteg to the old city of Lucerne, with the wooden Chapel Bridge at east, Lucerne Theater at south, Jesuit Church at south-west and at north the Town Hall from 1606. This are not World Heritage sites, but may be important enough...
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| Photo: Dani Fuchs |
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Canton des Grisons (Graubünden) Val Müstair, Switzerland
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| Lat: 46° 38' 0" N |
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Long: 10° 26' 0" E |
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13:00 to 14:30 MEZ (because of the bad weather I've needed a lot of shot for one pano) |
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Equipment: Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8700 - CubicConvertor for sizing - CubicConnector for autorotate |
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The Convent of Müstair, which stands in a valley in the Grisons, is a good example of Christian monastic renovation during the Carolingian period. It has Switzerland's greatest series of figurative murals, painted c. A.D. 800, along with Romanesque fresco..
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| Photo: Rolf Ris |
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York, England, UK
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| Lat: 53° 57' 34" N |
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Long: 1° 4' 48" W |
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6:00 AM GMT |
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Equipment: Panoscan/16 mm |
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Although not a World Heritage site, most of the buildings in The Shambles date to the 15th-17th Centuries. The street takes its name from the small "shammel" benches facing the street. Butchers would lay their meats on the shammels for shoppers to inspect. No ..
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| Photo: Ken Stuart |
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Greenwich, London, UK
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| Lat: 51° 28' 59" N |
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Long: 0° 0' 37" W |
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| Date/Time: |
13:01 UTC 19 June 2004 |
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Equipment: Kodak DC4800 with 18 mm wide angle adapter, Manfrotto MN 302 Plus VR head, Photoshop with PanoTools, QuickTime VR Authoring Studio |
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The clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton, Scotland on 22 November 1869. She was built to be the fastest ship in the annual race to bring home the first of the new season's tea from China. The ship's heyday was in the Australian wool trade,..
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| Photo: John Wilson |
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North Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 14' 25" N |
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Long: 6° 30' 44" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11:30 am GMT, Saturday, 19th June, 2004 |
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Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, Northern Ireland's top tourist attraction and only UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the North Antrim Coast, an extensive area of hard cliff along one of the most exposed coastlines in ..
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| Photo: Peter McCready |
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 55' 5.9" N |
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Long: 3° 15' 54" W |
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1445 GMT |
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Equipment: Taken with Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm Fisheye, handheld, 5 vertical shots, PanoTools, Photoshop. |
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The Old Town of historic Edinburgh, with its tall tenement blocks crowded together, was centered on the High Street or "Royal Mile" that ran between Edinburgh Castle and Holyroodhouse Palace. This was one of the first places in the world where people lived in ..
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| Photo: Bill Ward |
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 57' 17" N |
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Long: 3° 11' 3" W |
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| Date/Time: |
09:10 GMT 20 June 2004 |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5000 with Nikon's FC-E8 fisheye. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III. Stitched with PTMac. |
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Calton Hill with its volcanic rockbase, gorse-strewn hillface is one of Edinburgh's main hills, set right in the city centre. It is unmistakable with its Athenian acropolis rising above the skyline. The acropolis is in fact an unfinished monument - originally ..
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| Photo: Robin Wilson |
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10.000 feet over Reunion Island
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| Lat: 20° 57' 0" S |
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Long: 55° 22' 0" E |
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4:53 pm Local time. 12:53 am UTC |
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Equipment: Nikon D1x, Nikkor 8mm, ptmac, panotools, photoshop |
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No old cultural heritage in the small Reunion island as it has been only discovered since XVI'th century. No more natural, at least for Unesco, so I decided to make an image which can be made everywhere, or so, in the world. This image can be explained with fo..
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| Photo: Romuald Vareuse |
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Igreja Outeiro de Nossa Senhora da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| Lat: 22° 27' 0" S |
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Long: 42° 43' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
05:12 PM local time (-3 hours UTC/GMT)<br> Monday 21st, June, 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Fisheye Lens FC-E8, Handheld, 8 photos, fullframe fisheye2 mode, white balance manually preset to daylight, manual exposure = 1/125 f-10, ISO 100, stitched in Photovista 1.0.1, saved as jpeg, open in Photoshop CS, made adjustments in color, contrast, sharpness, saved as PSD and taken to QTVRAS 1.0.1. File size: 627kb , compression: 40% photo-jpeg, fast-start added, HQ enabled. For the FULLSCREEN movie infos are= movie box: 780 x 500 pixels, file size: 1.8 mb, compression: 40% photo-jpeg, fast-start added, HQ enabled. |
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This is one of the older churchs in Rio. It is sitting on 61m high, on top of a little hill in front of Flamengo Beach. It's construction begun in 1671. On that year, a portuguese man, named Antonio de Caminha, made a small "capela" on top of a hill in honor o..
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| Photo: AYRTON |
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Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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| Lat: 25° 25' 49.8" S |
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Long: 49° 17' 4.2" W |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500 + FC-E8, stitched with PTGui |
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This pano was made from the Marumby Station of one of the oldest railroads in Brazil. Open to be used in 1885, this 110Km line was for a long time the only connection between the agricultural production of Parana and the harbor of Paranagua. It's surrounded by..
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| Photo: Rodolpho Pajuaba |
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Ferrari High Road, Valparaiso Port City, Chile
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| Lat: 33° 1' 14.2" S |
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Long: 71° 33' 17.3" W |
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| Date/Time: |
13:25 Local Time, June 19, 2004 |
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Equipment: Take with an CP5000, Nikon Fisheye Converter, f7.2 at 1/250. Handheld Panorama, stitched with Panorama Tools |
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The Open Air Museum gathers a collection of murals painted on facades and concrete walls of houses. Murals painted by great artists like: Roberto Matta, Mario Carreño, Mario Toral, among others.
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| Photo: Patricio Armijo |
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Xochimilco, Sur de la Ciudad de México, México
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| Lat: 19° 15' 38" N |
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Long: 99° 5' 12" W |
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| Date/Time: |
14:50 PM local time CST |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500/Nikon Wide Converter WC-E63 0.63x/QuicklyQTcubic agno's head/Realviz Stitcher 3.5 - CubicConverter 2.0.4/Manfrotto 3021BPro tripod/1Gb Microdrive IBM/Apple Macintosh Powerbook G4 17" |
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Sistema de Chinampas y canales navegables que datan de la época de los Aztecas en la zona lacustre de la región de Xochimilco al sur de la Ciudad de México. Las Chinampas son islotes artificiales construidos sobre el agua para explotar se..
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| Photo: Luis Benitez |
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Templo Mayor, México Distrito Federal, México
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| Lat: 19° 24' 0" N |
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Long: 99° 9' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
10:00 a.m. (GMT -6:00) |
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Equipment: Sony DSC85 with Raynox DCR-FE 180 Pro adapter, handheld panorama stitched with PTMAC 2.0, retouched with Photoshop CS and converted with Cubic converter |
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Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec empire was founded in 1325. The "Templo Mayor" was the religious core of the city, it had twin buildings devoted to Tlaloc and to Huichilopochtli, the gods of rain and war.
In 1521 the aztecs were conquered by the s..
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| Photo: Aura Castro y Felipe González |
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Departamento de Colonia, Uruguay
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| Lat: 33° 0' 0" S |
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Long: 56° 0' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
10:00 am (21/6/2004) |
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Equipment: Camera: Sony Cybershot S70. Pan Head: Automatic rotating and shooting device I built in my home garage, using a BasicStamp 2, accelerometer, stepper motors, etc. Software: QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Quick Time for the Web |
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| Photo: Carlos de Mula Compte |
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