 Water - A World Wide Panorama June 16-21, 2005 |
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Sunol, Alameda County, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 35' 8.16" N |
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Long: 121° 53' 7.74" W |
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21 June 2005 - 13:23 PDT (20:23 UT) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop CS, Enblend, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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"To assume responsibility for the water supply of a metropolis is to acknowledge a solemn obligation, and to be clothed with a special dignity. Whatever expresses that obligation in terms of beauty enhances the dignity of the water company in the m..
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| Photo: Landis Bennett |
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Palmdale, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 36' 16.56" N |
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Long: 118° 11' 52.44" W |
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 8:05 PM PDT (June 22, 2005, 3:05 AM UTC) |
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Equipment: Canon PowerShot S230, PTMac 3.0 v52, enblend, Photoshop Elements 2.0, MakeCubic, Homemade Panoramic Tripod Head, PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz. |
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Pacific Coast, San Francisco, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 46' 45" N |
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Long: 122° 30' 52" W |
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June 17, 2005 at 8:39 p.m. UTC (1:39 p.m. local time) |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with 10.5 Nikkor lens and 360Precision head |
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Originally built at the end of the 19th century, the San Francisco Sutro Baths consisted of seven pools whose water circulation was serviced by waves from the Pacific Ocean. In addition to the pools, the baths consisted of an amphitheater, seating up to 3,700 ..
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| Photo: Jed Clark |
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Near Lee Vining, eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 57' 10" N |
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Long: 119° 04' 09" W |
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Sunday, June 19, 2005,10:30 am |
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Equipment: Canon G1, 35mm focal length, KiWi head, Photoshop and QTVRAS. |
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From 1941 until recently, water diversions by the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water has cause Mono Lake to drop by 40 feet. The tufa towers you see in this panorama formed underwater and are now exposed by the dropping lake level. In addition, the wate..
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| Photo: John Dotta |
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Mt. Baldy, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 16' 19" N |
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Long: 117° 38' 01" W |
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Sunday 19 June 2005, 5:50PM PDT |
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Equipment: Fuji S2 Pro, 10.5mm Nikkor lens, Custom Bogen Rotator, PTMac, XBlend, Photoshop CS, Optipix, Photomatix and Cubic Converter. |
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San Francisco Peninsula Watershed, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 29' 00" N |
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Long: 122° 19' 00" W |
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June 21, 2005 09:33 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, ISO200 RAW files, ultrawide lens, handmade panhead, Realviz Stitcher, Photoshop |
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Pulgas Water Temple is located within the San Francisco Peninsula Watershed, which contains 23,000 acres of coniferous forests, California coastal scrub and rare serpentine grasslands. The Watershed also includes San Francisco Public Utilities Commission reser..
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| Photo: Erik Goetze |
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San Francisco, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 49' 04" N |
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Long: 122° 25' 04" W |
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4PM Pacific Time, June 20th, 205 |
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Equipment: Eight Shots Taken hand held with Canon 20d and 10-20EFS lens
EXIF data: 10mm, 1/250sec, F9
Stitched with Realviz Stitcher and adjustments made in PSCS2
This was a hastily shot pano that I was not sure would come out well. I often shoot handheld shots but this one was taken at a location where I could not look through the camera or maintain my own position as I rotate the camera. I used a rust spot on the boat as a reference point. Boats present a few problems. One is that you really have two different horizons. The camera relative to the boat, and the camera relative to the world beyond the boat. What would be ideal is to take all of the shots with the boat at the same point in its rock, ideally when it is level. That is easier said than done. Even if you do this if the boat is moving forward then the scene is altered like with fast moving clouds. The extent of this depends on speed of the boat and proximity to objects outside the boat. Bright light is also good since you are moving and want to maintain a fast shutter speed to minimize motion blur.
Well I tried an experiment with the stitching of this pano and it seemed to work very well. I basically first did a version of the pano where I optimized the stitch locations for the boat. I then made a copy of that file and changed the optimization of the stitch for the distant horizon. I kept the horizon-free picture of the back of the boat as common reference location for each. I then loaded them both into Photoshop and blended them together. More than half of the scene has nothing from the boat crossing above the distant horizon. This let the water serve as the perfect camouflage to hide my the blending of the two panos. The result is what looks like a relatively ghost free pano. |
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My wife and I were lucky enough to be able to start off summer in Cool San Francisco where the high temperatures were around 70 degrees instead of Memphis where the highs were in the mid 90's. We wanted to go to Alcatraz on the morning of the 19th, but it ..
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| Photo: David Goldwasser |
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Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California, USA
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| Lat: 41° 23' 09" N |
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Long: 124° 01' 07" W |
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June 2005 |
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Equipment: CoolPix 995; 24mm lens; handheld; PTMac; Photoshop LE; QTVR Authoring Studio; QuickTime |
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Taken near Zigzag Trail. Set in ancient temperate rain forest. Some of the tallest trees in the world are here...
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| Photo: Stephen Hamilton |
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San Jose, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 19' 55" N |
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Long: 121° 53' 22" W |
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June 21, 2005, 2:30 PM |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Nikon 10.5mm, Photoshop CS2, PTMac & CubicConverter. |
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Cooling off a hot summer day. The fountains at the Ceasar Chavez Plaza, right in downtown San Jose, offer a fun option for children while adults take their breaks on the sideline...
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| Photo: Daniel Ho |
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Petaluma, California, USA
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| Lat: 38° 14' 4" N |
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Long: 122° 38' 22" W |
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20 June, 18:30 (6:30 local) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop CS, Enblend, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA
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| Lat: 36° 32' 18.61" N |
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Long: 121° 55' 38.3" W |
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June 17, 2005 - 18:17 PDT |
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Equipment: Nikon 8700 with FC-E9 fisheye adaptor, mounted on
Brooxes Flying Fisheye Platform, suspended from KAPilot 50 kite;
Radio-controlled shutter through gentLED serial trigger.
Image processed with PTMac 3.0, Photoshop CS with Noise Ninja plug-in, Pangea PanoPreviewer, and ClickHere Design's CubicConverter. |
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San Clemente, California, USA
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| Lat: 33° 25' 10.11" N |
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Long: 117° 37' 13" W |
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19 June, 2005 7:30am |
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Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm fisheye, Bogen/Manfrotto 303SPH, Photoshop CS, PTMac 3.0, Intellisharpen |
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Living in Southern California, a water theme should not have been an issue. For whatever reason, the pier at the beach I grew up at seemed to be the right picture to take. So on father's day, what better thing to do than take my oldest son and my father ou..
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| Photo: Mike Morper |
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Confluence of the Middle and North Forks, Northern California, USA
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| Lat: 38° 54' 55.29" N |
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Long: 121° 2' 14.73" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 18, 2005 21:08 PM (1:08 PM Local Time) |
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Equipment: Canon 1D Mk II with 15mm fisheye lens, Really Right Stuff panorama head, Manfrotto tripod, Adobe Photoshop CS2 using PTGui, Panorama Tools and PanoCube. |
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An angler tries his luck by fly fishing at the confluence of the North and Middle Forks of the American River, 34 miles upstream from Sacramento, California. To the angler's left is the Highway 49 Bridge. To the angler's right the New Foresthill Bridge..
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| Photo: Mike Posehn |
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Idaho Springs, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 44' 31.2" N |
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Long: 105° 30' 46.80" W |
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| Date/Time: |
Tuesday 6/21/2005 |
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Equipment: Nikon D100; Sigma 8mm; Bogan Tripod and 302 head; Photoshop CS; Panorama Tools; PTGUI; Panocube. All images shot in RAW format |
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Idaho Springs in located in Clear Creek County and is part of the Denver-Aurora metro area.
Bridal Veil Falls plunges behind the Charlie Taylor Waterwheel as rafters enjoy the Spring Runoff on Clear Creek. The Water wheel was built in the 1890's by gold mi..
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| Photo: John Fellers |
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Basalt, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 21' 45" N |
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Long: 106° 49' 21" W |
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10:45 a.m. June 18, 2005 |
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Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8, hand held |
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Reudi Reservoir, above Basalt, Colorado, is famous for its Mysis shrimp and their effect on trout in its Fryingpan River tailwater. The Fryingpan is classified as Gold Medal Water (catch-and-release waters designated by the Colorado Division of Wildlif..
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| Photo: Mark Pearson |
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Independence Pass, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 06' 32" N |
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Long: 106° 33' 48" W |
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| Date/Time: |
7:40pm June 21, 2005 |
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Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm, handheld, PTMac |
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This is a pond at the top of Independence Pass on the continental divide. From this point, water on the west flows into the Roaring Fork River then joins the Colorado River on its path to the Pacific Ocean. Water on the east side flows into the Arkansas River,..
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| Photo: Laura Pearson |
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Golden, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 45' 17" N |
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Long: 105° 12' 33" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 6th, 2005 1:30 PM MST |
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Equipment: Canon 20D
Sigma 8mm
Bogrn 303SPH
Cable Release |
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Darien, Connecticut, USA
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| Lat: 41° 05' 14" N |
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Long: 73° 30' 00" W |
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June 17, 2005 at 4:15 p.m. EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm Nikkor Fisheye lens, Manfrotto tripod with Jasper Pano Head II
Nikon Capture, Photoshop, Realviz Stitcher, CubicConverter, QTPro and VRPrep |
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