 Water - A World Wide Panorama June 16-21, 2005 |
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Trwynhwrddyn, Whitesands Bay, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
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| Lat: 51° 53' 53" N |
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Long: 5° 18' 00" W |
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| Date/Time: |
2pm 19th June 2005 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000, Kaidan Kiwi+ Head, Apple Quicktime Authoring Studio |
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Trwynhwrddyn promontory juts out into Whitesands Bay, one of the finest swimming and surfing beaches in the country. It was the site of St Patrick's Chapel (6th - 10th Century, no ruins survive) and the embarkation point for his journey to Ireland. Sea voy..
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| Photo: Steve Cole |
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Pilarzinho, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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| Lat: 25° 25' 08" S |
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Long: 49° 23' 52" W |
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18 de junho de 2005 |
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Equipment: Camera: Coolpix 4500+FC-E8 attachment, Manfrotto tripod, Manfrotto 302 head.
Software: PTGui+some minor editing in PSCS2 |
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Every day people come to this fountain to get some water to drink and to bring home, not only because it's free, but because it's believed that it's a purer water. You can see some bottles of water, some filled, some are being filled. Although it&#..
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| Photo: Rodolpho Pajuaba |
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Rancagua, VI Región, Chile
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| Lat: 34° 10' 47" S |
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Long: 70° 43' 15" W |
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June 21, 2005 - 13:14 local time (GMT-4:00) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon CP5000, Nikon Fisheye Converter, f7.8 at 1/4 second.
Mounted on Homemade panohead. Stitched with Panorama Tools, Jim Watters version. |
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Near Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica
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| Lat: 10° 34' 59.88" N |
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Long: 83° 31' 0.12" W |
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June 17, 2005. 11:30 a.m. Local Time |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000, Kaidan Kiwi+Spherical, Stitcher 4.01, Cubic Converter. |
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I decided to shoot this because the place is a special combination of man made water pool and a natural canal just half mile from Tortuguero National park.
During the summer months (July - September), thousands of turtles come ashore along these world-famous b..
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| Photo: Isaac Martinez |
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Ocho Rios, Central North Coast, Jamaica
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| Lat: 18° 25' 0.12" N |
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Long: 77° 7' 0.12" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 17, 2005 10:00 AM local time |
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Equipment: Canon Rebel 6MP camera, Sigma 8mm lens, Kaidan steel head, Panotools & PTMac 3.0v55, Photoshop CS, and Apple QTVR v 1.01 |
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No trip to Jamaica is complete without visiting its main attraction: Dunn's River Falls. Climbing the falls, which start at the ocean and rise about 600 feet, is invigorating and at times a little scary. Pictured in the falls are Steve and Emily S..
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| Photo: Skip Steuart |
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Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, México
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| Lat: 20° 43' 16" N |
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Long: 105° 18' 41" W |
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11:30 AM local time |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm, Agno's QuicklyQTcubic panohead, 3021BPRO Bogen-Manfrotto tripod, Stitcher 3.5, CubicConverter, CubicConnector, Photoshop CS, QuickTimePro 6.5, PowerBook G4 17". |
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El Agua siempre está presente en nuestras vidas, es simplemente un líquido vital para la sobrevivencia.
Para algunos es un medio de subsistencia que nutre sus cultivos, para otros es un medio lucrativo y la emplean en la industria, el transporte, el comercio..
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| Photo: Luis Benitez |
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Zirahuen, Estado de Michoacan, México
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| Lat: 19° 26' 25" N |
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Long: 101° 45' 18" W |
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June 19, 2005 - 14:11 Local Time |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon D70s Single Lens Reflex (SLR) digital camera and the Nikon full frame 10.5mm fisheye lens. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan Spherical Elevation Camera Bracket. Stitched using Nikon Capture software, Panotools, PTGui, AutoPano, Enblend and Adobe Photoshop CS2. Self made Windows software "Quicky Pano" for QuickTime VR conversion. |
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Bosque de Chapultepec, México
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| Lat: 19° 28' 46" N |
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Long: 99° 14' 18" W |
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10:30 am/June 18, 2005 |
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Equipment: Canon PowerShot G3, Apple iMac 17" Flat panel, Apple QTVRAS. |
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| Photo: Alfredo Mora Izaguirre |
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Park Beach, Bequia, St Vincent and the Grenadines
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| Lat: 13° 02' 01" N |
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Long: 61° 12' 24" W |
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10.00 am June 16th 2005 |
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Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 5000- Kiwi 990 pano head -PSCS -Pangea Previewer -Make Cubic |
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OldHegg is on Park Beach on the NE coast of Bequia, one of the islands making up St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Although only seven miles long and just half a mile wide Bequia is one of the most beautiful and attractive of the Caribbean islands. Visitor..
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| Photo: Bruce Hemming |
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Los Corales, Estado Vargas, Venezuela
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| Lat: 10° 37' 00" N |
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Long: 66° 52' 00" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 21, 2005 22:16 UTC (18:16 local time) |
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Equipment: Pentax istD, Sigma 8mm lens, Manfrotto 302 head. PTMac, Enblend, Photoshop CS, MakeCubic |
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In December of 1999 exceptional rains on the northern part of Venezuela triggered massive floods and landslides in the coastal state of Vargas, near Caracas.
Nearly 30,000 people died and 200,000 became homeless in what is considered the worst tragedy in the h..
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| Photo: Orlando Palencia |
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Merida, about 700 kmfrom Caracas, Western Venezuela
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| Lat: 8° 35' 52" N |
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Long: 71° 8' 42" W |
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June 18, 2:00 p.m. local time (18:00 U.T.) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000, Fisheye FC-E8, home made panohead. Software: PanoTools, Adobe Photoshop CS, PanoCube |
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Mezizim Beach, Tel Aviv, Israel
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| Lat: 32° 05' 45" N |
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Long: 34° 46' 11" E |
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June 18th, 2005 ; 06:37 Israel Time (UTC+2) |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm. |
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Oahu, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 18' 36" N |
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Long: 157° 39' 16" W |
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11:18 am local time |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm lens, five shots. |
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Oahu South Shore, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 16' 51.6" N |
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Long: 157° 40' 41.52" W |
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2:05 PM, 6/16/2005 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with 10.5mm on Bogen 3415 kit |
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Hawaii offers a plethora of natural wonders and spectacular visitor attractions, but a must-see when visiting the islands is the Halona Blowhole on Oahu. The blowhole is a natural occurrence formed by molten lava tubes from volcanic eruptions thousands of year..
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| Photo: Dean Karamehmedovic |
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Honolulu Shore, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 17' 27" N |
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Long: 157° 51' 31" W |
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20 June 2005, 4 pm |
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The Honolulu shoreline attracts plenty of surfers when the waves are right. A deep channel next to a coral reef makes for good swells when conditions are right. There are several surfers on the waves, but you can only make out the ones coming back in.
Looking ..
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| Photo: Pat Rooney |
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Kahana Valley on the windward side of Oahu, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 33' 20" N |
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Long: 157° 51' 20" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 21, 2005 3pm Hawaiian Time |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 w 18-70 zoom, Bogen 3414 Pano Head, stitched with QTVRAS, and adjusted with Photoshop. |
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Water from Kahana Stream makes its way to the ocean.
Kahana Valley, on the windward side of Oahu, faces into the trade winds and is one of the wettest parts of the island. In the back of the valley, along the crest of the Ko'olau Mountains, Kahana has an ..
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| Photo: Norman Shapiro |
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Southern Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 19° 29' 55.49" N |
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Long: 154° 49' 13.51" W |
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June 19, 3:07 pm local time (-11 GMT) |
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Equipment: Fuji FinePix S7000, 18 handheld horizontal shots at f/7.0 ISO 200 at 1/640 sec. Stitched in Photoshop CS, wrapped in PanaVue ImageAssembler and saved into QuickTime from there. |
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Normally I shoot panoramas with a fisheye lens on a Panoscan or Nikon D70, but for this theme I tried to get a fisheye view using cheap disposable underwater cameras.
Unfortunately, between difficult ocean surge, rough wave action, bad lighting, sharp lava roc..
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| Photo: Ken Stuart |
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Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
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| Lat: 48° 47' 48" N |
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Long: 123° 29' 32" W |
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| Date/Time: |
June 18, 2005 - 01:38 GMT |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens, home made wired remote control, Modified Panosaurus pano head. Adobe Photoshop, PTMac, Xblend, Cubic converter. |
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I built this little goldfish pond in our garden for my best friend, partner and wife, Susan Cogan. It's home to four goldfish, some aquatic plants, and an unknown number of smaller life forms. Birds like to bathe in it.
The terracota sculpture (no, it'..
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| Photo: Uri Cogan |
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