 Water - A World Wide Panorama June 16-21, 2005 |
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Wallenborn, Vulcano Eifel, Germany
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| Lat: 50° 9' 13.68" N |
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Long: 6° 43' 12.72" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 20th 2005, 15:56 CEST |
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Equipment: Coolpix 5000 with the fisheye FC-E8 set to full frame, Manfrotto QTVR Kit 302+, stiched with PTMac / XPoints / MakeCubic, Nadir inserted with PaintShopPro on a PC. |
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This type of geyser is unique in Europe. The water is cold, 15°C. This region used to be volcanically active. Brubbel is driven to erupt every 30 minutes by carbon-dioxide from a chamber 30 meters down.
In the cavern carbon-dioxide gets in solution in the wat..
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| Photo: Gabi Haindl |
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Halle (River Saale), Germany
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| Lat: 51° 28' 0" N |
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Long: 11° 58' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18.06.05 |
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Equipment: Fuji S2, Canon 350d, Sigma 8mm, Selfmade Panohead |
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This is a 78 year old leisure boat which has been travelling on the Saale for decades. The current captain has started working on this boat at age 16...
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| Photo: Christian Hüller |
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Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| Lat: 51° 25' 43" N |
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Long: 6° 58' 41" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 2005 |
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Equipment: FinePixS2Pro, Nikon Fisheye 10,5mm |
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The Grugapark, one of the largest parks in Germany is situated in the city of Essen. There you can visit greenhouses with exotic plants and you can find old trees, different gardens an..
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| Photo: Helmut Koelbach |
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Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 44' 12" N |
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Long: 9° 18' 41" E |
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| Date/Time: |
20.06.2005 16:30 |
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Equipment:
- Tripod: Kaidan QuickPan Spherical
- Software: Realviz Stitcher
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In the history of Esslingen water has always been of great importance. Founded more than a thousand years ago the city was built at a ford of the Neckar river, which then used to r..
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| Photo: Stefan Kokemueller |
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Weilburg, Hessen, Germany
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| Lat: 50° 28' 53.4" N |
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Long: 8° 15' 56.52" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 20th, 2005, 13:20 CEST |
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Equipment: Coolpix 5000 with the fisheye FC-E8 set to full frame, Manfrotto QTVR Kit 302+, stiched with PTMac / XPoints / MakeCubic. |
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It is the only Ship Tunnel in Germany and was built from 1844 to 1847 to make another part of the Lahn navigable. It's a shortcut to bypass an oxbow on the Lahn River which has banks of sand and rock barrages. It was only in use for ten years for commercia..
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| Photo: Joakim Löber |
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Near the City Centre, Munich, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 08' 36" N |
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Long: 11° 35' 16" E |
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June 19, 2005 - 10:50 UTC (12:50 local time) |
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Equipment: - Konica Minolta Dynax 7D with Sigma 8mm Fisheye
- PTGui, PanoTools, The Gimp, Panocube Plus
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Theme
The theme I have chosen for my panorama is water sport.
Surfing is a popular water sport you would not expect in Munich, hundreds of kilometers away from the next coast li..
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| Photo: Markus Matern |
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European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany
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| Lat: 49° 52' 17" N |
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Long: 8° 37' 24" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10:45 CEST, Thursday, 16th June, 2005 |
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Welcome to the Main Control Room at the European Space Agency (ESA)'s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.
Since its creation in 1967, ESOC has planned missions and operated more than 50 satellites including Mars Express, ESA's ..
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| Photo: Peter McCready |
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Berlin - Siemensstadt, Germany
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| Lat: 52° 31' 58.44" N |
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Long: 13° 16' 58.44" E |
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June 19, 2005 - 14:03 UTC |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5mm, Sticher 4, Photoshop CS, ClickHere's CubicConverter |
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Water as a life guard.
The "Berliner Feuerwehr" (Fire Department Berlin) organizes their yearly "Day of the open door" on June 19th 2005. This panorama was taken during a presentation called "Barrack on fire". Little water ..
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| Photo: Joachim Nickel |
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Duesseldorf, Germany
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| Lat: 51° 15' 27" N |
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Long: 6° 45' 03" E |
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| Date/Time: |
19.06.2005 @ 14:30 (UTC+1) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D70, 10.5mm fisheye, Manfrotto tripod 055PROB, Manfrotto pan head 303SPH...
Software: Panotools, PTGui, PanoCube Plus... |
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This panorama shows the fountain in the Nordpark in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is located close to the "Aquazoo" - a famous spot for tourists and school outings. The fountain consists of more than a hundred single fountains - a great sight, which attra..
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| Photo: Oliver Rennen |
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Höfen an der Enz, Black Forest, South-West corner of Germany
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| Lat: 48° 48' 09" N |
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Long: 8° 35' 18" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 20, 2005 - 05:15 UTC (07:15 MESZ = UTC + 2h) |
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Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 990, FC E-8 fisheye, zoomed in. Mounted on a selfmade VR-head.
Software used for this panorama:
NoiseRemove, Photoshop, Neat Image, PtGui with PanoTools, Enblend and PanoCUBE Plus. |
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Sliding Gate at the River Alster in Hamburg, Germany
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| Lat: 53° 40' 12" N |
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Long: 10° 05' 55" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2005-06-20 12:30 local time |
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Equipment: Fuji Finepix S2, Sigma 8mm, PanoTools with PTGui, Photoshop, PanoCube Plus. |
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The Alster is a 56 km long river in Northern Germany, which flows through the city of Hamburg. The Alster ends in the river Elbe. The Alster forms two artificial lakes within the city limits of Hamburg, called Außenalster (outer Alster) and Binnenalster (inne..
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| Photo: Kay-Uwe Rosseburg |
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Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany
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| Lat: 47° 36' 7.2" N |
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Long: 12° 55' 30" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2005-06-21 / 19:24 |
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Equipment: Canon EOS, Sigma 8mm, Manfrotto Tripod, selfbuild Panohead, PTMac, Photoshop |
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The Wimbachklamm is a small canyon in the Wimbach-Valley at the foot of the mountain Watzmann in the Berchtesgaden National Park...
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| Photo: Peter Scherbarth |
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Mühltal nearby Strasslach, Germany
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| Lat: 47° 59' 43" N |
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Long: 11° 29' 13" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June, 17th, 2005 - 01.30pm |
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Equipment: Nikon D-SLR, Fisheye, Manfrotto, Software |
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The raft slide Mühltal (nearby Strasslach) has a total length of approx. 345m and overcomes a difference in altitude of 18m. It is the longest raft slide of Europe.
Originally the rafts served as means of transportation for bulky goods.
Nowadays an Isar raft ..
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| Photo: Mario W. Schild |
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Walchensee Kraftwerk, Germany
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| Lat: 47° 37' 49.5" N |
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Long: 11° 20' 12.6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2005-06-18, 10:48 |
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Equipment: Canon PowerShot G2 - with very a primitive wooden bracket to be able to turn the camera close to the nodal point.
But what the heck, it works. :-)
PanaVue ImageAssembler 3 Enterprise Edition for stitching and QT conversion (Thanks to Gilbert Morin for an upgrade to the Enterprise Edition!) |
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This panorama is taken next to the historic, but still working Walchensee power plant.
The power plant was planned by Oskar von Miller at the end of the 19th century. He wanted to use..
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| Photo: Roland Schock |
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Mittlerer Schlossgarten, Stuttgart, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 47' 00" N |
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Long: 9° 11' 14" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 18, 2005 - 16:12 CET (local time) |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 10D with Sigma 8 mm Fisheye on Manfrotto 303 panhead on Slik tripod - placed directly in the fountain - covered camera with plastic bag, cause me and the tripod got completely wet! ;-) ... Thanks to Roberto Gomez Torres who again did a great PanoTools stitching job for me! |
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Flensburg, Northernmost Germany
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| Lat: 54° 47' 19" N |
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Long: 9° 25' 56" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 18th 2005, 14:50 local time |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D with Peleng 8mm, Manfrotto 303SHP Panohead, RAW, PTGui, PS CS, Cubic Converter/Cubic Connector |
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During a stay at my parents home on the German west coast, I took a chance on this sunny Saturday to shoot some panoramas in nearby Flensburg. This one was special, since the owner of the former traditional fishing vessel "Frieda von Hadersleben" agr..
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| Photo: Michael Stoss |
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Essen-Frohnhausen, Ruhrstadt, NRW, Germany
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| Lat: 51° 27' 05" N |
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Long: 6° 57' 42" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June 20, 20006 - 16:10 local time |
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Equipment: D20 with Sigma 8mm from Monopod with my Nodalpunktadapter |
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I had some luck, the temperatures were pretty high (near 30° C) so the children wanted and got some cooling.
And I got my chance for a waterpanorama...
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| Photo: Tom! Striewisch |
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Flensburg Harbor, Germany
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| Lat: 54° 47' 43" N |
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Long: 9° 25' 56" E |
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| Date/Time: |
June, 19th 4:15 am |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 8mm |
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