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Water - A World Wide Panorama June 16-21, 2005
Water - A World Wide Panorama June 16-21, 2005

During the week of the Solstice (June 21) over two hundred and fifty photographers created VR panoramas with the theme of water.

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Hourglass Lake Bridge  
Pop Century, Walt Disney World, Florida, USA
Lat: 28° 22' 28" N Long: 81° 30' 38" W
Date/Time: 6/21/05 9:00AM
Equipment: Olympus C-3020, Bogan monopod, 70nm IR filter and home brew panorama head.
Infrared Black & White Image. This is my first contribution. I shot this while on vacation in Florida at Walt Disney World at a resort called Pop Century. We had rain every day and I wanted to emphasize the dramatic sky. I also wanted to create an image wi..
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Photo: Eric Anderson
Wakulla Spring  
14 miles south of Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Lat: 30° 19' 12" N Long: 84° 18' 36" W
Date/Time: June 21 High Noon
Equipment: Nikon D70 Sigma 8mm KingPANO head Bogen tripod Software: PTMac Enblend PSCS
Located within Florida's Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, Wakulla Spring is among the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world. The links below provide more information about this fascinating aquatic wonderland and, in particular, what l..
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Photo: Larry Coltharp
Dissolving Earth and Sky  
Grayton Beach State Park, NW Florida, USA
Lat: 30° 19' 27" N Long: 86° 09' 09" W
Date/Time: 8:45, 16 June 2005
Equipment: Canon 300D (Digital Rebel) SLR camera, EF-S 10-22mm lens at 10mm (equivalent to 16mm film camera), ISO 200, RAW, f.14 at 1/100 second. Stitched with Apple's QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 1.01. Graphic modifications in Adobe Photoshop CS. Sound recorded with Canon GL2 miniDV camcorder. Edited in Final Cut Express, Audacity, Macromedia Flash, and QuickTime 7 Pro.
Photo: Caroling Geary
Forsyth Park  
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Lat: 32° 4' 6" N Long: 81° 5' 42" W
Date/Time: June 16, 2005
Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm
ENGLISH This panorama was taken in Forsyth Park, Savannah Georgia. This park is the largest in the city, the most active and is also distinguished for maintaining its original size, since it was created in 1851. The central point in this photography..
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Photo: Sacha Griffin
Night on the Snake River at Idaho Falls  
Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA
Lat: 43° 29' 47" N Long: 112° 02' 46" W
Date/Time: June 21, 2005 at 1 AM
Equipment: Canon 10D with Sigma 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye, defished in Photoshop CS2 and assembled in RealViz Stitcher on a Mac PB 17", on a Giottos Tripod with Markins Ballhead.
The Snake River has three modest impoundments for hydro power. The dam manages to preserve much of the original falls for which the town is named. The scene is taken at the river bank just beneath a hotel. Despite a modest urban area, my unexpected assistants ..
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Photo: Stephen DeNagy
Barber Pool Conservation Area  
Boise River, East of Boise, Idaho, USA
Lat: 43° 33' 12.96" N Long: 116° 6' 10.08" W
Date/Time: June 19, 2005 - 1:52 MDT
Equipment: Nikon D100 digital SLR, 17mm 3.5 lens, f11 at 1/250 - Kaidan QuickPan Spherical system. Produced with Realviz Stitcher 4.0.3, Photoshop CS, Cubic Converter 2.1 and Cubic Connector 2.0.6.
We hike along the Boise River and the wildlife habitat area nearby, where we often see an amazing number of waterfowl, song birds, birds of prey and many animal species. The Barber Pool Conservation Area (hereafter, BPCA) is located approximately 6 miles east ..
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Photo: Katy Flanagan
Little Redfish Lake  
Rocky Mountains, Idaho, USA
Lat: 44° 09' 50" N Long: 114° 54' 26" W
Date/Time: june 19th, 2005 7:28AM MDT
Equipment: Canon D60, 17-40mm@17, Kaidan QPIII, Photoshop CS, PTMac, CubicConverter
Perched 6493 feet above sea level, Little Redfish Lake was named for the masses of red-scaled salmon that returned there every year to spawn and renew the circle of life. As recently as 1955, more than 4,000 sockeye salmon made the annual pilgrimage from the ..
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Photo: Jim Liesenfeld
Musical Waters  
At the Water's Edge, Worth, Illinois, USA
Lat: 41° 40' 46.56" N Long: 87° 47' 40.2" W
Date/Time: June 21, 2005 7:30pm
Equipment: Hardware: Bogen Tripod w/Agnos MrotatorB head, Nikon Coolpix 8700 w/FC-E9 fisheye lens, two 1gig CF cards. Toshiba Laptop, 3.2 ghz, 1 gb of ram. Software: Panorama Tools, PT Gui, Quicktime Pro, Photoshop 7.
Hidden away in the South Suburbs of Chicago one can find a public park with the strange name of "the Harry 'Bus' Yourell Off-Stream Aeration Pool." While the name conjures up visions of stagnant waters rife with mosquitoes and algae, i..
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Photo: Richard C. Drew
The Crown Fountain  
Southwest Corner of Chicago's Millennium Park, Illinois, USA
Lat: 41° 52' 51.96" N Long: 87° 37' 26.04" W
Date/Time: June 21, 2005 - 10:45am CDT (15:45 UTC)
Equipment: This panorama was composed from a total of 42 images, taken with a Minolta A2 camera equipped with a Minolta ACW-100 20mm wide-angle lens, and mounted on a Nodal-Ninja SPH-1 spherical bracket. The images were stitched using PanoTools and PTGui, postprocessed with Enblend and Photoshop CS, and compiled into QTVR format using PanoCube.
Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, The Crown Fountain consists of two, 50-foot tall, glass block towers at each end of a long, shallow reflecting pool. Water cascades from the top of the towers while video images are displayed on LED screens embedded in ..
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Photo: Victor Zaveduk
Confluence of Kansas and Missouri Rivers  
Kaw Point, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Lat: 39° 06' 57" N Long: 94° 36' 37" W
Date/Time: June 17, 2005 7:30 a.m. local time
Equipment: Fuji S2 Nikkor 17-35m f2.8 (17mm). 125th sec @ f16. Bogen pan head. QTVRAS
Kaw Point is where the Kansas River and the Missouri River meet. In 1804, Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery stopped here for several days before continuing on their journey westward. Today the site is a historical park with landscaped walking trails..
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Photo: Dan Ruettimann
Golden Stairs Harbor  
Brooksville, on the coast of Maine, USA
Lat: 44° 20' 32" N Long: 68° 44' 27" W
Date/Time: June 20, 2005
Equipment: Nikon 990 with Kaidan 990vr Mount -- Photoshop CS -- VR Worx
This harbor was named Golden Stairs because of the granite blocks used to shore up the roadway at the turn of the (20th) century. Steamboats & sailing vessels would come up the coast from Boston & NY to exchange cargo and bring "vacationers"..
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Photo: Larry Cassis
Surfing with Dolphins  
Ocean City, Maryland, USA
Lat: 38° 22' 21" N Long: 75° 03' 55" W
Date/Time: June 16 - June 21, 2005
Equipment: Handheld pano made with a Pentax digital underwater camera. Processed on a Mac with Photoshop and Stitcher.
This panorama consists of 2 separate 360 degree cylindrical panos taken with an underwater camera from my surfboard in the Atlantic Ocean at 47th Street in Ocean City, Maryland. It also has an assortment of still images taken while I was surfing and just havin..
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Photo: Art Baltrotsky
The River Anna  
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lat: 39° 14' 24" N Long: 76° 32' 24" W
Date/Time: 19:30 PM EST/June 21, 2005
Equipment: Fuji S2 | Nikkor 8mm
Ever wonder why children are so drawn to water? Well, I stopped. But not before seeing my two year old wipe the entire house clean, wash her clothes without removing them from her body first and turn blue in her kiddie pool. Did I mention drowning the plants..
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Photo: András L. Frenyo
Bethesda Metro Center Fountain Court  
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Lat: 38° 59' 15" N Long: 77° 05' 55" W
Date/Time: June 21, 2005 - 7:30 PM
Equipment: Nikon D70 with Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye - 8 frames ISO 200, Aperture: f8, Shuttter: 1/30 Stitcher: PTMac3.0 with Enblend
This is one of the many water fountains in downtown Bethesda, Maryland, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. The open area court is surrounded by a skyline view of some of its downtown buildings including the Bethesda Metro Center complex and the Hyatt Regen..
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Photo: Jook Leung
Chesapeake Bay  
Breezy Point Beach, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, USA
Lat: 38° 37' 42" N Long: 76° 30' 53" W
Date/Time: June 20, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, Jasper Engineering Panohead, PTGui, Photoshop
Breezy Point Beach and Campground in Calvert County, MD is on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It offers swimming, fishing, camping, a bath house, a snack bar, a playground for children and shaded picnic areas. The Chesapeake Bay -- the largest estuary..
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Photo: Brian Raines
Venice Of America  
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Lat: 42° 38' 27" N Long: 71° 18' 14" W
Date/Time: June 17, 2005 / 10:30 AM
Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5 mm f/2.8 fisheye, Agno's MRotatorTCPShort panoramic head, Manfrotto 3001B tripod, Panoweaver 4.0 stitching software, Adobe Photoshop CS, and a bit of good luck.
The Pawtucket Canal was built in the 1790's and was the largest canal system in America at the time, thus earning the nickname "Venice of America" for the city of Lowell, MA. In the 1820's, the canal was greatly enlarged to serve as the main..
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Photo: Carlton SooHoo, Ph.D.
Historic Fishtown  
Leland, Michigan, USA
Lat: 45° 1' 27.7" N Long: 85° 45' 44.75" W
Date/Time: July 18th 2005, 12:30 pm EST
Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm Lens, custom built pan head. Stitched with REALVIZ Stitcher.
Historic Fishtown, Leland Michigan. Built of the banks of the Leland River between Lake Leelanau and Lake Michigan. For over 100 years Leland was a commerical fishing port. Now the weather beaten fish shacks house funky litte gifts shops and charter boats li..
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Photo: Mark Houston
Minneapolis - "City of Waters"  
Hovering over Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Lat: 44° 58' 41.88" N Long: 93° 15' 56.88" W
Date/Time: 06/18/2005 11:37 local time (CST)
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, Robinson R44 helicopter, Panorama Tools, PTGui, Enblend, PanoCube Plus, Photoshop. ISO 200, 1/800@f8, RAW
Photo: Edward S. Fink
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