 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Paris, France
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| Lat: 48° 52' 0" N |
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Long: 2° 18' 0" E |
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20th September, 22:10 local time. |
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A view of the Eiffel Tower from the Pont de l'Alma, Paris...
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| Photo: Jeremy Kinnen |
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Pyrénées-Orientales, France
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| Lat: 42° 26' 40" N |
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Long: 2° 41' 16" E |
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Equipment: Nikon CP5000 (28 mm) for about thirty images, shot 'à la romaine' (with a plumb line). Stitcher and Photoshop. |
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Just large enough to let the passage of a man or a horse, this little bridge resisted to the tempestuous torrent. The roman part of the bridge is the one with the rounded arch, then the original drawbridge was substituted by the larger arch (foreground) at XIV..
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| Photo: Éric Lerch |
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Entrevaux, Alpes de Haute-Provence (04), France
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| Lat: 43° 56' 58.9" N |
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Long: 6° 48' 33.1" E |
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| Date/Time: |
3:00 pm GMT+1:00, 21 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000 / Wide Angle / Kiwi / REALVIZ Stitcher 4.0 |
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Entrevaux - Alpes de Haute-Provence (04) - FRANCE","Entrevaux was built at 11th century to protect against sarazin attack and against 'Le Var' flood.
Louis XIV decided to have a strategic place with Entrevaux and asked to Vauban to build a new fortification: ..
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| Photo: Alexandre Negri |
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Villeneuve-Loubet, Côte d'Azur, South of France
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| Lat: 43° 39' 25" N |
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Long: 7° 7' 16" E |
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| Date/Time: |
20, September 2004. 19:45 (GMT +1) |
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Equipment: Minolta A1, Panosaurus Head, Manfrotto 718SHB tripod, REALVIZ Stitcher 4, PhotoShop CS |
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The Villeneuve-Loubet village bridge was destroyed in 1846 after a
flood. It was rebuilt in 1880 and used by trains before being re-classified for cars. In 2000, the bridge has undergone a big face lift.
"Le Loup" river springs off in the mountain near Gourd..
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| Photo: Stéphane Negri |
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Echillais, Near Rochefort, Charente Maritime, France
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| Lat: 45° 54' 54" N |
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Long: 0° 57' 30" W |
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| Date/Time: |
12:30 UTC, Tuesday 21 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5, Prototype 'Matthew' head, PTMac, Cubic Converter. |
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Le Pont Transbordeur de Martrou
The eternal problem: How can a bridge cross a river without disrupting shipping?
This bridge solved it by moving a platform suspended by cables across the river!
It is the last Transporter Bridge in France and one of only four..
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| Photo: Brian O'Reilly |
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Le Pont Neuf, Paris, France
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| Lat: 48° 51' 23" N |
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Long: 2° 20' 25" E |
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| Date/Time: |
21.9.04 at 10.34pm UTC |
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Equipment: Taken with a Konica Minolta Dimage A2, f. 10, 2 to 5 seconds. Mounted on a Manfrotto 302 (head) + Manfrotto 190DB (foot). Stitched with RealViz Stitcher 4.02. |
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"Le Pont Neuf" (in english, this would sound like "The New Bridge") is the oldest bridge in Paris. The construction began in 1578, in the reign of Henri III and only ended in 1604, in the reign of Henri IV. The construction has been delayed beacuse of economic..
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| Photo: Benoit Pepermans |
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Square de Reuilly, Paris, France
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| Lat: 48° 52' 0" N |
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Long: 2° 18' 0" E |
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Equipment: Taken with a Konica Minolta Dimage A2, f.7.1, 1/3. Mounted on a Manfrotto 302 (head) + Manfrotto 190DB (foot). Stitched with RealViz Stitcher 4.02. |
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This lightweight footbridge, made of wood and metal, spans "le square de Reuilly", a cute round garden on the way of the "Promenade plantée". The "Promenade plantée" is a 2.5 miles strectch of parkland that runs along the top of a viaduct. The ol..
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| Photo: Adeline Pepermans |
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Bures sur Yvette - Essonne - France
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| Lat: 48° 41' 11" N |
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Long: 2° 8' 36" W |
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| Date/Time: |
17:30 GMT +1, 21 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Canon D60, 15mm sigma |
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built in1907, bombarded in 1944, rebuilt in 2004.
Old railway between Chartres and Paris
Big spot for climbing..
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| Photo: Christophe Peus |
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Illkirch, Alsace, France
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| Lat: 48° 32' 10" N |
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Long: 7° 42' 36" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18 sept 2004 - 22:20 (local time) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Fisheye fc-e8, manfrotto tripod, home made bracket. |
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This was a rainy day, and I had no chance to shoot any good pano before the evening. So we went to the cinema, and when we got out, there was a nice atmosphere with many heavy clouds. Everything had a kind of orange shade. So I deci..
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| Photo: Cédric Simon |
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Near Baziege, 25km SE of Toulouse, France
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| Lat: 43° 31' 8" N |
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Long: 1° 37' 26" E |
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| Date/Time: |
4:30pm Paris local time, 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Canon 300D Rebel, Sigma 8mm fisheye.
Software: Stiched in PTools/PTGui and edited with Adobe PhotoShop/PanoCube. |
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This bridge was erected in 1667. It is one the original 130 bridges that cross the Canal du Midi. It overlooks the locks of the Wild Boar that was one of the earliest to be built. Being so narrow, it barely lets motorcars to pass over.
The Canal du Midi is on..
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| Photo: Michel Thoby |
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Cintegabelle, Haute-Garonne, France
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| Lat: 43° 18' 38.9" N |
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Long: 1° 32' 3.8" E |
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| Date/Time: |
22 septembre 2004 - 17:25 (05:25pm) Local Time |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 8mm F4, home-made panoramic head, 6 images, PTGui, Photoshop CS |
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Frankly, on September 22 I didn't feel like taking photographs... So, I went for a bicycle ride, near my home along the river Ariège. Cintegabelle, my village, has a tormented history going back to the 10th century (960 exactly). This small city's apog..
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| Photo: Gilles Vidal |
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near Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, France
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| Lat: 49° 31' 14.5" N |
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Long: 0° 44' 50.3" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10:05 CEST, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Fujufilm FinePix S2Pro, Sigma 15-30mm, Manfrotto 303 pan head |
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The Pont de Brotonne is a cable-stayed bridge across the river Seine, connecting the department of Haute-Normandie with Seine-Maritime. It was completed in 1977, has a main span of 320m and a clearance of 50m.
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| Photo: Harald Walker |
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Near the northern industrial area of Amberg, Bavaria, Germany
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| Lat: 49° 29' 4.6" N |
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Long: 11° 53' 7.1" E |
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| Date/Time: |
Sept. 22, 2004 - 05:48 UTC (07:48 local time, UTC+1 + 1 hour of daylight saving time) |
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Equipment: Minolta Dimage 7 on Manfrotto 303SPH head, 32 pictures @ 28mm times 3 exposure values (of which the darkest was used for the clouds and the medium for the ground area), Stitcher 4, Photoshop 7, CubicConverter 2 |
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St. Agnes Bridge, Esslingen, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 44' 30" N |
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Long: 9° 18' 16" E |
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| Date/Time: |
September 18, 2004, 17.20 UTC |
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Equipment: Taken with an Canon EOS 1ds digital SLR, 8mm Sigma, f.8 at 160/sec. Mono pod. Stitched with PTmac. |
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"Troubled" only, because I was in it when I took the pano.
Esslingen has quite a few Bridges to offer. Bridges of all sizes and kinds. Old ones and new ones. Funny thing, it never occurred to me they could be an interesting subject to take a pano of. That is, ..
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| Photo: Milko Amorth |
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Hamburg, Germany
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| Lat: 53° 31' 57.8" N |
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Long: 9° 56' 16.3" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18.9.04 at 1:00 am UTC |
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Equipment: Nikon D100 digital SLR, Sigma 8mm fisheye, f9.0 at 1/250, mounted on custom-made adapter on a manfrotto 344BR, 43B platform and Proball 468RC2, stiched with ptgui 3.7beta1 / Autopano 1.03 enblend 1.3 ; PanoCube v 0.0292 |
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The Koehlbrand" is a channel of more than 400m width, connecting the southern and the northern part of the river Elbe. During the 14th and 15th century heavy storm tides divided the Elbe-Island "Gorieswerder" in two parts. The name "Koehlbrand" is the German..
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| Photo: Florian Bertzbach |
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Colgne, Germany
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| Lat: 50° 56' 32.3" N |
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Long: 6° 56' 5.6" E |
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Equipment: Canon G5
Manfrotto tripod
Software: Apple Quick Time Authoring Studio |
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Build 1913-1915 as the "Hindenburgbrücke". The bridge broke down in 1945, while it was repaired because of the bombardment in World War II. Rebuild between 1947 and 1948. Total lenght: 437 m. Nowadays used for cars and trams...
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| Photo: Holger Buhr |
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Heitersheim, southwestern Germany
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| Lat: 47° 54' 8.3" N |
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Long: 7° 35' 11" E |
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| Date/Time: |
09/21/2004, 4.49 pm GMT +1 |
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Equipment: SpheroCam, 16mm Nikkon Fisheye |
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Driving the national road "B3" heading southwest of Germany from Hamburg to Loerrach you will pass trough the City of Heitersheim, situated about 50 km north from the Swiss border in Basel. Heitersheim, a small town in the Markgraeflerland with around 5000 inh..
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| Photo: Mirek D. Duda |
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