 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Newtown, 28kms SW of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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| Lat: 37° 42' 30" S |
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Long: 143° 39' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18 Sept. 2004 4.30pm AustEST |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 8mm lens, Custom made panohead, Stitcher, Cubic Convertor |
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Nimons Bridge was part of the Ballarat to Skipton Railway line and is one of the largest timber trestle bridges in Victoria. The line was built to provide an important link to the gold mining areas of Smythesdale, Scarsdale and Linton and to service the exten..
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| Photo: Terry Kelly |
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Richmond, Tasmania, Australia
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| Lat: 42° 44' 0" S |
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Long: 147° 25' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10:00am EAST, 20 September, 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Canon 10D, 8mm Sigma fish, Kaidan rig, Apple 15" Albook
Software: PTMac 2.1 v38, XBlend 1.2, CubicConverter 2.0.5, Mac OS X, Time Out! 1.0 v1002, iTunes 4.6 (Etta James, Wilco, & Green Day) |
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The Richmond Bridge, built in 1823, is the oldest bridge in Australia still in use. Situated in Richmond, Tasmania, roughly 25kms from the state capital, Hobart, the Richmond Bridge spans the Coal River in the heart of a region known for it's boutique winerie..
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| Photo: Thomas Moore |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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| Lat: 33° 51' 15.88" S |
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Long: 151° 12' 34.25" E |
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| Date/Time: |
15:20pm Sydney Time, 21st September 2004 |
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Equipment: Leica 16mm fisheye lens; Leica M6TTL camera; Kodak Supra 200 film; stitched and extensively retouched by hand using PTools plug-ins and Photoshop CS |
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The view from the northeastern side of the South Pylon Lookout on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the tallest public lookout in Sydney for thirty years (1932-62).The bridge itself was built from Dec 1926 to ..
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| Photo: Andrew Nemeth |
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Canberra, ACT, Australia
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| Lat: 35° 17' 29.98" S |
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Long: 149° 7' 39.39" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2004:09:22 at 13:15 EST - Eastern Standard Time (UTC/GMT +10 hours) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon D70 digital SLR, AF-S 18-70 lens at 18mm (equivalent to 27mm), f14 at 1/160 second. Mounted on a Kaidan KIWI-L QTVR Pano Head. Stitched with RealViz Stitcher. |
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The Commonwealth Avenue Bridge was build in 1963. Along with the Kings Avenue Bridge, and the Constitution Avenue, they form the parliamentary equilateral triangle, the heart of Canberra, according to the towns' architect Burley Griffin. The triangle..
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| Photo: Pascal Vuylsteker |
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Straddles the Hume Weir between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
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| Lat: 36° 5' 16.5" S |
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Long: 147° 3' 19.2" E |
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| Date/Time: |
14:08 (2:08pm) Australian Eastern Standard Time, 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: The pano was shot with a Nikon D70 and Peleng 8mm fisheye lens, hand-held. Four shots around, plus zenith and nadir. Shots edited with the PanoTools Adjust Photoshop Elements plug-in and hand stitched. |
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The Bethanga Bridge is a 750meter long steel truss bridge built in 1930 to carry the Riverina Highway across the then newly constructed Hume Weir. It replaced two other bridges that were about to be submerged by the rising waters of the dam.
The rocks at the ..
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| Photo: Kathy Wheeler |
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Yarra River, Melbourne, Australia
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| Lat: 37° 49' 10.74" S |
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Long: 144° 57' 54.73" E |
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| Date/Time: |
Tuesday 21st September, 2004 |
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Equipment: Fuji S2Pro, Nikon 10.5mm Lens, Manfrotto Tripod and 303Plus Pano Head
Six Images stitched with PTGui and converted to .MOV with Panocube |
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I was briefly back in Melbourne for a few days during the period of the WWP Autumn Solstice event... as the Yarra River flows through the centre of the city, there are many bridges to choose from...
Looking North, you can see the main CBD buildings and in the..
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| Photo: Keith Wilson |
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"White brook valley", Austria
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| Lat: 47° 47' 40" N |
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Long: 13° 35' 41.6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18. Sept. 2004, 14:26 CEST |
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Equipment: Hardware setup: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm, Manfrotto Monopod with custom built L-Adapter
12 images = 2 panos á 4 images + zenith/nadir, (1st pano @ 1/15s F4, 2nd pano @ 1/15s F16). All images connected via autopano. Output as 2 panos (images connected via enblend). High and low version of panorama blended with Photoshop. |
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I found this abandoned bridge during a hike through the mountains in Upper Austria. It must have been built about 100 years ago for forestry purposes and given up because it no longer withstood the weight of the modern machines...
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| Photo: Bernhard Vogl |
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Avenue Emile Digneffe, Liège, Belgium
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| Lat: 50° 37' 14.9" N |
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Long: 5° 34' 40.8" E |
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| Date/Time: |
September 19th, 2004, at 03:40 PM (GMT + 1 hour) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Minolta Dimage 7Hi digital camera, 28-200 mm 2.8 lens at 28 mm (equiv. 135). Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan Spherical Arm on Manfrotto QTVR Kit 302 Head and Tripod. 64 (2x 32) images stitched with Realviz Stitcher 4.0.2 |
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Important notice : to perceive the surprising relief of this panorama, it is absolutely necessary to carry stereoscopic anaglyphic glasses (red and cyan glasses).
Inaugurated on July 26th, 1904, the «pont de Fragnée» is certainly the..
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| Photo: Alain Hamblenne |
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Larnaka, Cyprus
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| Lat: 34° 55' 9" N |
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Long: 33° 37' 43" E |
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| Date/Time: |
12:00 local time (=10:00 GMT) 19/09/04 |
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Equipment: Taken with a
Kodak DX3900, digital camera, at the equivalent of 35 mm.
Mounted on a tripod but without any pano-head. Stitched with VRWorx 2.5 |
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Kamares area on the Larnaka - Lemesos road.
A beautiful 18th century aqueduct which was built in 1745 in the Roman style to carry water from a source about 6 miles south of Larnaca into the town to provide Larnaca with water. It surfaces in a gully along the ..
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| Photo: Norma Boylan |
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Randers, Jutland, Denmark
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| Lat: 56° 27' 7" N |
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Long: 10° 3' 2" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2004-09-22T13:02:34 GMT+02:00 |
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Equipment: 8mm Handheld Nikon, PTMAC, Sound MiniDisk and MP4 (Requires Quicktime 6 or newer) |
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An old Steam-railway Bridge, connecting Randers town and "Gudenaa River". Now serving bikes and pedestrians. Once the River was famous Salmon waters and the history tells something like this: There was lots and lots of salmon, served every day for meals. Actu..
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| Photo: Birger Borgwardt |
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Langå, Jutland, Denmark
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| Lat: 56° 23' 42" N |
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Long: 9° 53' 33" E |
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| Date/Time: |
16.00 September 18 |
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Equipment: Canon 10D/Sigma 12-24mm/homemade panohead/Photovista 3.0 Mac/VRWorx for movie |
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At this place close to the village Langå the railway crosses the river Gudenåen, the longest river in Denmark. Actually it is the only water which can be called a river in Denmark.
The place has a part in the Danish history because it was here the..
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| Photo: Hans Nyberg |
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Iitti, Finland
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| Lat: 60° 56' 23" N |
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Long: 26° 25' 28" E |
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| Date/Time: |
13:15 EEST , 20 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Fuji S2Pro, modified 3Sixty, 10.5mm Nikkor, f11 at 1/90, PTMac. |
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The bridge over Kupparinoja was built in 1938. Kupparinoja runs between Urajärvi Lake and Kymi River in Kymenlaakso Region in southern Finland. The location can be seen on the frame E6 on - read more -
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| Photo: Juhani Laiho |
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Panelia in Satakunta, Finland
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| Lat: 64° 0' 0" N |
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Long: 26° 0' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
19.09.2004, time 15.40 local (+2 GMT) |
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Equipment: Nikon D2H, Nikon 10,5 mm fisheye, Gitzo monopod, 1/60 f9, Realviz Stitcher |
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Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France
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| Lat: 47° 19' 46" N |
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Long: 1° 3' 55" E |
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| Date/Time: |
16:00 UTC, Saturday 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5, Prototype Matthew head, PTMac, Cubic Converter |
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Chenonceau
This magnificent chateau has been heavily influenced by the fact that it has been under the control of some remarkable women - most notably, Catherine de' Medici.
It was rebuilt in Renaissance style between 1513 and 1521 by Catherine Briconnet and ..
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| Photo: Maryannik Barray |
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Louveciennes, Yvelines, France
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| Lat: 48° 52' 12" N |
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Long: 2° 7' 12" E |
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| Date/Time: |
08:00 PM UTC |
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Equipment: Taken with an Nikon Coolpix 8700 with WC-E63 wide angle, f.2.8 at 1/9 second. Mounted on a Manfrotto SP303PLUS Head. Stitched with Realviz. |
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To supply water for the garden and stepped cascades of the Versailles castle, the "Sun King" Louis XIV asked the french engineer Arnold de Ville to build the "machine" of Marly and the Louveciennes Aqueduct. Inaugurated in June 1684, the "machine" of Marly car..
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| Photo: Christian Braut |
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Le Bono, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
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| Lat: 47° 38' 28" N |
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Long: 2° 57' 13" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11h53 GMT +1 | 2004/09/18 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 + Sigma 8mm, monopod, PanoramaTools + PtGui |
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On this saturday morning, the gardeners are fussing over the gardens under a cloudy sky.
Two bridges cross this arm of the sea, but here, if mention is made about the Bono bridge, everybody's thought immediately goes to the Bono suspension bridge.
Today,..
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| Photo: Pierre Converset |
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Arlebosc, Ardèche, France
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| Lat: 45° 1' 37" N |
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Long: 4° 38' 59" E |
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| Date/Time: |
16:31 (UTC + 1), 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000 + WC-E68 wide angle, Manfrotto tripod and head, 8 vertical shots (RAW), Photoshop, PTgui, Panocube |
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The Viaduct of Banchet was Built between 1886 and 1891 for the railway line of Vivarais (Ardèche). This five arches viaduct crosses over the Doux river near the village of Arlebosc between Boucieux-le-Roi and Lamastre. The locomotive on this image ..
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| Photo: Guillaume Fulchiron |
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Near Millau, Aveyron, France
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| Lat: 44° 5' 0" N |
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Long: 3° 0' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10h15, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon 1D MarkII, 12-24 Sigma Lens @ 12mm f/11, Manfrotto panohead
Stitched with PanoTools/PTgui, 3 bracketed panoramas (-1.5, 0, 1.5 EV), HDRI + tone mapping with Photomatix |
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The Millau Viaduc reaches a height of 343 meters over the river Tarn, which makes it even higher than the Eiffel Tower.
The viaduct is currently under construction. It will be the highest bridge in the world once it is opened in January 2005. The search for a..
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| Photo: Jacques Joffre |
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