 World Heritage - a World Wide Panorama June 19-21, 2004 |
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Golan Heights, Israel
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| Lat: 32° 0' 0" N |
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Long: 35° 0' 0" E |
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05:49 (UTC +2) |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, Handheld! |
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Discovered by Israeli archeologists in a survey after the Six Day War in 1967, the phenomenon labeled Rujum el-Hiri means "cat's foot" in Arabic; in Hebrew the site is known as Galgal Refaim (Giants' Circles). According to the Bible there were giants in the Go..
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| Photo: Andy Alpern |
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Jerusalem, Israel
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| Lat: 31° 47' 0" N |
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Long: 35° 13' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 20, 2004 :: 11:30 a.m. Israel Time (UTC +2) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm Lens. Software: Custom Photoshop stitching/blending action using Kekus Panotools plugin |
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Schoolchildren from Ashkelon take part in an interactive puppet show/history lesson in the Old City of Jerusalem. "Reishit Yerushelayim," an organization which presents educational workshops, employs props such as the vintage clothing seen here, worn by 19th c..
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| Photo: Michael Fankhauser |
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 18' 18.4" N |
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Long: 157° 51' 29.5" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 19/2004 8:00AM (UTC/GMT -10) |
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Equipment: Sony F717, lens x0.7 VCL-MHG07, Bogen 3415 Pano head |
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'Iolani Palace' was the official residence of King Kalakaua and his Queen, Kapi`olani, from 1882 until the King's death in 1891.
The Palace also served as official residence for Kalakaua's sister and successor,
Queen Lili`uokalani, until the Hawaiian monarchy..
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| Photo: Dean Karamehmedovic |
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Near the town of Wahiawa, island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 29' 48.5" N |
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Long: 158° 1' 38.6" W |
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| Date/Time: |
around noon HST |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon F3 w/motor, 20mm lens, Fuji color negative film, homemade camera mount on Bogen #3414 Panoramic Head on Bogen #3502 Leveller, stitched with QTVRAS. |
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Beginning with the birth of Kapawa in the 1300's, or possibly earlier, Kukaniloko became recognized as the royal birthsite on O'ahu. Birth at Kukaniloko assured a child highranking status and the privileges of this status. It also maintained the purity of th..
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| Photo: Norman Shapiro |
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Banff National Park, Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, Alberta, Canada.
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| Lat: 52° 10' 52.4" N |
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Long: 117° 3' 29.2" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, June 20, 2004 |
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Equipment: Fuji S2 Pro, Nikkor 10.5, homemade head, PTGui, Picture Window Pro, Photoshop, PanoCube Plus |
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Panther Falls is a spectacular, but little-known waterfall. Perhaps this is good, because it is a very dangerous place. One stumble over a slippery rock and you can fall 100 metres to the rocks below. At first I tried to photograph the panorama from below, but..
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| Photo: Scott Rowed |
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Savage Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
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| Lat: 51° 19' 59.9" N |
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Long: 56° 42' 0" W |
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June 19, 2004 - noon |
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The Viking Trail in Newfoundland Island, North-Eastern Canada, is a 400+ kms road along which you can find 2 World Heritage Sites : Gros Morne National Park and l'Anse aux Meadows with a reproduction of a Viking Village at the exact place where they settled do..
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| Photo: Tito Dupret |
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Jones Falls on the Rideau Canal, Ontario, Canada
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| Lat: 44° 32' 45" N |
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Long: 76° 14' 2" W |
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3:30 PM EST |
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Equipment: Nikon 995 with Fisheye(FC-E8) / Custom L bracket on 14 foot pole / 6 images 20 deg down 4 images 20 deg up plus 1 down / PTGui with PanoramaTools & Photoshop |
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The Rideau Canal joins Kingston and Ottawa Ontario with a series of scenic lakes, rivers, and canals. Conceived after the War of 1812, in case America tries to invade Canada again, to be a war-time supply route to Kingston and the Great Lakes from..
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| Photo: Jim Watters |
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| Lat: 45° 30' 31.7" N |
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Long: 73° 33' 14.8" W |
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The railway car "SASKATCHEWAN" was built in Dayton (USA:OH):
* It was specifically built for Sir William C. Van Horne (General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway project) and served as his business..
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| Photo: Yann Leroy |
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Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada
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| Lat: 45° 17' 45.6" N |
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Long: 74° 10' 41.9" W |
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~6:30 pm |
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Equipment: Nikon F90X with Sigma 2.8/15mm fisheye. Film - Kodak Supra 200.
Film scanner - Minolta Dimage Scan Dual.
Stitching software - Photovista Panorama 3.0, Panorama Tools and PanoCube.
Tripod - Velbon CX-480 with custom L-mount.Mbr |
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Coteau-du-Lac is a small town at the South-West of Quebec at the shore of St Lawrence River. By the end of 18th century the locked canal and the fort to protect the waterway had been built here to let the boats to bypass the rapids. This canal construction wor..
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| Photo: Alex Makienko |
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Bright Angel Point (near Lodge), North Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
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| Lat: 36° 12' 47" N |
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Long: 112° 3' 42" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9:00 am Mountain Standard time |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)/ES-F 18-55 lens (at 18mm)/modified Kaidan KIWI 260/265 pan head/Photoshop CS and QTVRAS software. |
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On the Boy Scout Tree Trail, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park (Redwood National and State Parks), near Crescent City, California, USA
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| Lat: 41° 46' 0" N |
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Long: 124° 7' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11 am Pacific Daylight Time, June 20, 2004 |
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Equipment: Olympus E-1 (digital SLR), 14-54mm Zuiko lens at 14mm, Kaidan QuickPan III with spherical bracket, Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, Adobe Photoshop CS, Macintosh G5. |
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| Redwood National Park was created to protect the tallest trees on earth, the coast redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens. Old growth forests here contain many trees over 300 feet (100 meters) tall, and 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter. The park stretches for ..
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| Photo: G. Donald Bain |
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Yosemite National Park, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 43' 22.2" N |
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Long: 119° 38' 15.6" W |
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| Date/Time: |
20 June 2004 - 17:57 PDT (00:57 UTC - 21 June) - The Solstice! |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 18mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: Kekus PanoTools/XPoints/PTMac/XBlend, Photoshop, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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Yosemite National Park is one of the crown jewels of the US National Park System and an official UNESCO World Heritage Site (Inscribed 1984). Located in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains the park is 1,200 square miles (3,000 square kilometers), and one ..
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| Photo: Landis Bennett |
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Death Valley National Park (248 feet below sea level), California, USA
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| Lat: 36° 17' 5" N |
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Long: 116° 49' 35" W |
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| Date/Time: |
4:06 PM |
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The Death Valley saltpan is one of the largest saltpans in North America. The bizarre terrain of an evaporated lake contains crystals of almost pure salt, the kind you know from the dining table The craggy lake bottom is complex and intricate with crystals in ..
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| Photo: Bo Lorentzen |
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA
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| Lat: 33° 0' 15" N |
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Long: 116° 27' 12" W |
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8:40am Pacific Time |
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Equipment: Photographed on a Nikon D100 with a Sigma 8mm Fisheye and QuickPanIII panohead at 3 degrees up, ISO 200 for 1/30s to 1/800s @ f/11 in the NEF image format. The images were processed for vignetting and were stitched with PTMac, edited and layered with Photoshop 5.5 and 7.0 and processed with MakeCubic & QuickTimePro. Sprites were added for the Full Size mov format and for automatic panning written by Steven Gulie at Quick Time for the Web. |
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On the Solstice I drove down to Box Canyon in the early morning to catch some light that would make the Teddy-Bear Chollas glow in the long shadows. I decided to "hand-tint" the image after treating it with a sepia process to emphasize the beautiful chollas an..
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| Photo: John E Schwarzell |
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Savannah, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 32° 4' 51.2" N |
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Long: 81° 5' 28.3" W |
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Equipment: Dimage 7ug/28mm/Panosaurus/PanoTools |
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Mid-day festivities on River Street. The Savannah Historical District is on the UNESCO tentative list...
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| Photo: Sacha Griffin |
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Warm Springs, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 32° 53' 24" N |
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Long: 84° 40' 51.6" W |
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10:40am EST (+05 GMT) June 21, 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, 17-40L, 17mm, Digital, Stitcher 3.1, VR Worx 2.1 |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt built the Little White House in 1932 while governor of New York, prior to being inaugurated as president in 1933. He first came to Warm Springs in 1924 hoping to find a cure for the infantile paralysis (polio) which had struck him in ..
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| Photo: Robert Thien |
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The Tules area of the Owyhee River, Owyhee Canyonlands, Southwest Idaho, USA
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| Lat: 42° 12' 37" N |
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Long: 116° 30' 6" W |
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| Date/Time: |
1:40pm MDT, June 20, 2004 |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon D100 digital SLR, 17mm 3.5 lens, f 22 at 1/60 sec., Kaidan Quickpan Spherical Bracket. Stitched with Realviz Stitcher 4.0.1 |
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The Owyhee Canyonlands are located in three states, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and are a national treasure that has often been considered for National Park or Monument status. Sections of it are now being considered for Wilderness preservation. The spectacular v..
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| Photo: Katy Flanagan |
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Michigan Ave. at Congress, Chicago, IL USA
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| Lat: 41° 52' 33" N |
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Long: 87° 37' 29" W |
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4:35 PM CST (UTC -6) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 950, wide angle lens, Kaidan tripod head |
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I chose the Auditorium Building, a National Hisoric Landmark designed by the architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, because of its beauty and also because my wife is on the faculty at Roosevelt University, resident owners of the building. It was designed..
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| Photo: James Arthur |
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