 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Maximiliansbrücke, Munich, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 8' 13.4" N |
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Long: 11° 35' 25.3" E |
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9:30am Middle European Summer Time, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Voigtländer Bessa-L with 15 mm rectilinear lens, mounted on a monopod with custom made L bracket, about 8 frames on Fuji Reala film, stitched with PTMac. |
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The Berlin Airlift Memorial, Platz der Luftbrücke, Berlin-Tempelhof, Germany
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| Lat: 52° 29' 5" N |
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Long: 13° 23' 24" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2004-09-21, 10:35 MEZ |
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Equipment: Taken with a Seitz Roundshot Super 220 VR, Schneider PC-Super-Angulon 2,8/28mm, f.22 at 1/60 second, Kodak Portra 800, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Player |
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My pano shows a memorial that commemorates a bridge, figuratively speaking. In german, the term "airlift" is called "Luftbrücke" (literally: air bridge).
The memorial is a monument to the Berlin Airlift by which the protective powers supplied the two mill..
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| Photo: Martin Frech |
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Bremen, Germany
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| Lat: 53° 3' 32" N |
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Long: 8° 52' 22" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18.09.2004 , 13:00 , MEST |
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Equipment: Leica Digilux 1 (33mm) Monfrotto panohead |
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This picture is of the the "Weserwehr" bridge that crosses the river Weser upstream of the City of Bremen. It is the first water regulation and the downstream side gets tidel influence whereas a constant level is maintained on the upstream side. It is a r..
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| Photo: Bernd Gitte |
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Odenwald Railroad, South of Erbach, Odenwald, Germany
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| Lat: 49° 36' 10.9" N |
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Long: 8° 59' 34.1" E |
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| Date/Time: |
5:04 pm CEST, 18 September 2004 |
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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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The Himbächel Viaduct:
It's a single-track bridge on the Odenwald railroad. From hill to hill, It spans a distance of 250 meters, and a height of 40 meters. It has ten spans made of sandstone collected from local quarries, and concrete foundations for ea..
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| Photo: Gabi Haindl |
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Randersacker, Landkreis Wuerzburg, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany
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| Lat: 49° 45' 14" N |
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Long: 9° 58' 51" E |
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| Date/Time: |
14:30 MET (GMT+2), Sept. 18, 2004 |
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Equipment: 4 Pictures Taken with Fuji FinePix S2Pro, Sigma 8mm Fisheye, a Gitzo TriPod and my good old Peaceriver 360 Head (as you can see if you tilt down). Then Adobe Photoshop / PTMac |
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It was that beatiful sky on the first day of this wwp shoot period. I had planned to go to this bridge.This kind of Gates you find about very 5 Kilometers here at the Main River. These always have public Bridges with these ugly, mesh-type flooring. These Bridg..
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| Photo: Tilman Hampl |
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The Harbour of Luebeck, Germany
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| Lat: 53° 52' 10.6" N |
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Long: 10° 41' 15.4" E |
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| Date/Time: |
03.30 MET +1 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500 with WC-E63 Wide Converter
Manfrotto 303 QTVR Head mounted on Linhof Porta Pro tripod
Stitched and wrapped in Apple QTVR Authoring Studio |
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Die Hubbruecke (The Lift Bridge) was built about 1900 and is still in use, being one of the most important traffic nodes in the town. It is one of 11 bridges connecting the Old Town Island of Lübeck with "the rest of the world". The Lift Bridge contains o..
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| Photo: Alexander "aljen" Jensko |
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Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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| Lat: 49° 27' 11" N |
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Long: 11° 4' 23" E |
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September 2004 |
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The Henkersteg bridge in Nuremberg was build in 1595 after the former bridge had been damaged by a flood of the river Pegnitz. The bridge consists of wooden beams and a roof wit..
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| Photo: Helmut Koelbach |
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Spree, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
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| Lat: 52° 30' 48.6" N |
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Long: 13° 24' 6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
09/22/2004, 7:00 pm, CEST |
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This bridge was built in 1689. The folding mechanism was added 1798. Once, this bridge was connected to the streets of the old Berlin. Now it looks a little bit lost between the monumental building of the Reichsbank - built in the "Third Reich" - and an even m..
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| Photo: Oliver Mann |
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Pforzheim, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 53' 24" N |
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Long: 8° 42' 12" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10:30am MiddleEuropeanSummerTime, 22 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Sigma SD9; Sigma 20mm f/1.8 EX ASP DG RF; Manfrotto 303SPH;
Software: SigmaPhotoPro 2.1, Realviz Stitcher; CubicConverter |
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The Gernika Bridge is dedicated to the city, people and victims of Gernika, Basque country, Spain, which was destroyed by a German bombercommand during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. As another sign of respect, the bridge is spelled in the letters of the Basqu..
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| Photo: Thomas Mottl |
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St. Nikolaus Bridge across the river Nagold, Calw, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 42' 49" N |
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Long: 8° 44' 28" E |
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| Date/Time: |
September 21, 2004 18:42 local time (17:39 UTC) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990, FC E-8 fisheye, zoomed in. Mounted on a selfmade VR-head. Four shot round plus bracketing. Software used for this panorama: Photoshop, PtGui with PanoTools, Autopano, Enblend and PanoCUBE Plus. |
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Constructed around 1400, Gothic bridge with chapel of St.Nikolaus. This is the oldest stone bridge across the river Nagold. The chapel is decorated with figures of a cloth-worker and raftsman representing the former most important trades of the town; since 192..
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| Photo: Thomas Rist |
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Muenchen, Germany
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| Lat: 48° 8' 30" N |
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Long: 11° 32' 54" E |
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| Date/Time: |
Monday,September 20, 2004, at 15:05:00 PM CEST |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, 10.5mm, Manfrotto 303SPH, Stitcher 4 |
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Essen, NRW, Germany
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| Lat: 51° 26' 33" N |
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Long: 7° 0' 20" E |
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| Date/Time: |
Sept 21 18:30 (GMT +02:00) |
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Equipment: Made with Canon D60, Sigma 8mm, selfbuild Nodalpointadapter |
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Bridges most of the time connect people, but also they
divide the ones walking on them from the ones living under them.
This small new bridge in Essen that I choose as my subject
provides (as a lot of other bridges do) a home for the homeless.
The bridge itsel..
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| Photo: Tom! Striewisch |
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Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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| Lat: 54° 18' 13.7" N |
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Long: 9° 40' 11.6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
19. September 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D, 8mm Sigma Fisheye, PtMac, Panorama Tools, Photoshop |
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The "Rendsburger Hochbruecke", a railway bridge made of steel, 2500 meters in length and 41 meters height, was built between 1911 and 1913.
Several kilometers long ramps were needed to achieve the height of 41 meters. The length of the complete construction is..
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| Photo: Alexander Thomsen |
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Cologne, Germany
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| Lat: 50° 56' 28" N |
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Long: 6° 58' 6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
18:00pm MESZ, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon F3, Sigma 16mm full-frame fisheye, ISO 200 negative film, f8, 1/250s, Nikon LS-30 scans, Panotools |
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The Hohenzollern Bridge is one of the eight bridges in Cologne crossing the river rhine. It is the most central bridge and one of the two railway bridges in Cologne leading from the central railway station near the cologne cathedral (Kölner Dom) to Deutz ..
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| Photo: Chris Witzani |
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Northern Peloponnese, Greece
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| Lat: 38° 19' 57" N |
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Long: 21° 45' 42.1" E |
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7:35PM (GMT +02:00)Athens |
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Equipment: Cannon eos1/Sigma lens/Fuji slide film, 200Asa/Authoring with photoshop-Panotools |
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The bridge of Rio - Antirio connects Peloponnese with the Western Sterea Hellas and is found in the junction of two big national road axes: P.A.TH.E., the highway connecting the three biggest Greek cities: Patras, Athens, Thessalonica, and that of the Ionian R..
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| Photo: George Kountouris |
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Town of Veszprem, Veszprem County, Hungary
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| Lat: 47° 5' 49.7" N |
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Long: 17° 53' 45.49" E |
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| Date/Time: |
September 18, 2004 16:40 local time |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Manfrotto pan head, PTools and PanaVue for the fullscreen cylindrical. |
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Veszprém is an old historical town, located about 110 km south-west of the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The town is surrounded by the Bakony Hills to the north and Lake Balaton to the south. This picturesque town, rich in historical buildings and monum..
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| Photo: Tamas D.Varga |
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Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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| Lat: 44° 50' 16" N |
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Long: 11° 37' 9" E |
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| Date/Time: |
11:25 am Rome |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Zoom 12-24 Dx, Agnos Quickly QT Cubic Pano Head, Sticher 3,5, Photoshop |
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The Ferrara "Estense" Castle is one of the most important monuments in Europe (and Unesco property) and its history reflects in this way the history of Ferrara itself (and, in part of Europe), from the early Middle Ages when it functioned as the city's main de..
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| Photo: Martino Agnoletto |
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Scigliano, Calabria, Italy
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| Lat: 39° 8' 5.6" N |
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Long: 16° 16' 59.2" E |
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| Date/Time: |
4:11pm Local Time, 21 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 5000, Nikon FC-E8.
Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III CS. Stitched with PTMac, QTVR with MakeCubic |
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"Annibale's Bridge" is also known as "The Bridge of Saint Angelo"
and is regarded as a national monument. It's located in Scigliano in Calabria (South of Italy)
The first name of the bridge ..
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| Photo: Fiore Cappone |
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