 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Sweden/Denmark
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| Lat: 56° 1' 9.8" N |
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Long: 12° 45' 7.6" E |
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| Date/Time: |
2004-09-20 11.15 CET |
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Equipment: Canon 300D + PanoTools |
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The Øresund Bridge is a bridge joining Sweden and Denmark.
From both sides of Øresund, the Øresund Bridge is a striking spectacle. The 204m high pylons with their harp-shaped stay cables are visible from Falsterbo in the south to Glumsl&o..
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| Photo: Mats Persson |
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Bridge over the river Muota, Brunnen, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 0' 42" N |
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Long: 8° 37' 21" E |
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| Date/Time: |
september 19, 2004, 10:00 Central European Time |
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Equipment: Taken with a Canon G5, 7.19mm x wide convertor, equivalent to 27mm in portrait orientation. Mounted on a selfmade panohead. Stitched with PtGui/PanoTools/autopano converted with panocube pro. |
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The steel bridge over the river Muota is part of the Gotthard railway across the alps, it connects northern and southern Europe..
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| Photo: Dani Fuchs |
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Between Schiers and Schuders, Graubuenden, Switzerland
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| Lat: 46° 58' 49.8" N |
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Long: 9° 42' 50.4" E |
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| Date/Time: |
September 18, 2004 (GMT +01:00) 3:41 pm |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 with Nikkor 10.5 mm, Monopod with ballhead and selfmade panohead, PTGui 3.7 with autopano, Photoshop CS and PanoCube Plus |
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Viewed today as an architectural jewel, this Maillart Bridge was built because it was the least expensive at that time. There was a large choice: Two months after the invitation to tender for its construction, in the summer of 1928, the cantonal building autho..
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| Photo: Peter Nyfeler |
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Old Mt Rigi railway track, next to Berghaus Unterstetten, Kanton Schwyz, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 2' 12" N |
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Long: 8° 29' 1" E |
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| Date/Time: |
19.09.2004 10.42 am UTC |
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Equipment: Canon Powershot Pro 1, Manfrotto, Stitcher 4 |
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Mount Rigi is in the central part of Switzerland and has been a destination of choice for tourists and hikers for many many years. There are several cable cars which access the Rigi from the surrounding towns and villages. A sprocket train services it from Vit..
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| Photo: Tobias Port |
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4600 Olten, Switzerland
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| Lat: 47° 20' 53.5" N |
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Long: 7° 54' 20.2" E |
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13:15 MEZ |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 / 18 mm / homemade pan head / QTVRAS-Photoshop-CubicConvertor |
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You can see the combination of a railroad-briges with a pedestrian-bridge over the river of Aare in Olten. That bridge is not the biggest, not the most important, not the most beautiful and also not the oldest bridge in the world. It is just a usefull bridge f..
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| Photo: Rolf Ris |
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Zermatt, Switzerland
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| Lat: 46° 1' 8" N |
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Long: 7° 44' 53.2" E |
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September 18th, at 07:08am MEZ |
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Zermatt/Switzerland, September 18th, at 07:08am: The first sunrays touch and color the summit of the world famous Matterhorn in red colors. Below you, the water of the "Matter-Vispe" rushes straight from the bottom of glaciers. You are standing on the "Kirchbr..
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| Photo: Matthias Taugwalder |
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
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| Lat: 53° 23' 16.8" N |
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Long: 1° 27' 36.4" W |
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| Date/Time: |
22 Sept 2004, 18:00 BST |
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Equipment: Canon digital camera, custom made pano head, Realviz Stitcher, Photoshop, Panocube |
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The Cobweb Bridge near Sheffield City Centre fitted the WWP brief perfectly - a bridge under a bridge.
It is an example of some clever engineering and its unique design makes it very photogenic.
The Cobweb Bridge was the solution to a difficult design proble..
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| Photo: Nick Crossland |
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Postbridge, Devon, UK
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| Lat: 50° 35' 36" N |
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Long: 3° 54' 41" W |
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11:30am GMT |
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Equipment: Taken with a Canon 10D, 8mm 1.8 Simga lens. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III Pro. Stitched with REALVIZ Stitcher 3.5. |
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Postbridge's clapper bridge is the finest example of a clapper bridge in the United Kingdom. The clapper bridge straddles the East Dart River, just twenty meters from the main road bridge (built in the 1780's), and is clearly visible as you drive through the v..
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| Photo: Darrell Goss |
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Oxford, UK
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| Lat: 51° 45' 16.2" N |
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Long: 1° 15' 12.2" W |
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| Date/Time: |
4.30pm GMT 22nd September 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 8mm Lens, Kaidan Spherical QuickPan III, Defish, RealViz Stitcher, Cubic Converter. |
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Bridge of Sighs
The "Bridge of Sighs" was built in 1913 and designed by TG Jackson, the bridge is a corridor linking the main buildings of Hertford College with the newer buildings of the north quad. It is named after the "Bridge of sighs", or "Ponte d..
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| Photo: Karl Harrison |
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Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, UK
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| Lat: 50° 56' 25.4" N |
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Long: 0° 21' 57.6" E |
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10.00 am GMT |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon CP5K, WC-E68 wa adaptor, KW 990 panohead
Software: PTMac2.1v38 |
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In the 1920's Alan Alexander Milne bought a holiday cottage in Hartfield Village on the edge of Ashdown Forest. Christopher Robin, his son, was then four and a half years old and his father invented a make believe world inspired by the rural landscape to enter..
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| Photo: Bruce Hemming |
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Manchester, UK
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| Lat: 53° 28' 45.5" N |
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Long: 2° 14' 52.4" W |
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| Date/Time: |
21/09/04 at 3pm |
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Equipment: Nikon coolpix 4500, WC-24 Wide Angle |
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Castlefield is Manchester's regenerated canalside district. Not so long ago, it was a derelict and abandoned no-go area, now it mixes the old and the new, its views over shimmering water, its bridges, viaducts and walkways and its proximity to the city centre ..
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| Photo: Barthelemy Izoard |
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River Windrush, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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| Lat: 51° 52' 0" N |
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Long: 1° 45' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
20 September 2004 17:39 GMT |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 8mm, f8 1/10 second, PTGui, Photoshop, CubicConvertor, CubicConnector. |
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The River Windrush is a trout stream the rises from aquifers in the Cotswolds, and flows through Bourton on the Water, The Barringtons, Burford and Whitney before joining the River Thames before Oxford. The river is a natural breeding ground for both brown and..
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| Photo: Tudor Jenkins |
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London, England, UK
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| Lat: 51° 30' 31" N |
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Long: 0° 7' 35" W |
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| Date/Time: |
17.30 approx BST, 18th September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon 5400 with WC-E80 wide converter (approx 22 degrees equivalent). Adapted Jasper Engineering Pano-Head 2. Realviz Sitcher 4, Photoshop 7. |
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It had been raining most of the day, with very overcast skies. I had been photographing at the Millenium Bridge and Tate Modern Gallery, but wasn't optimistic about the results, and so I decided to walk on to Tower Bridge. As I reached London Bridge the skies ..
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| Photo: Joe King |
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Lairdside Maritime Centre (Part of Liverpool John Moores University), Birkenhead, England, UK
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| Lat: 53° 22' 48" N |
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Long: 3° 0' 42" W |
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| Date/Time: |
12:30pm GMT, 22 September 2004 |
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Virtual Reality within Virtual Reality courtesy of the view from Bridge 1 at the Lairdside Maritime Centre, the UK's most advanced 360-degree Ships Bridge Simulator suite.
Incorporating two similarly equipped secondary bridges for simultaneous interactive sin..
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| Photo: Peter McCready |
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Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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| Lat: 54° 0' 43.2" N |
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Long: 1° 27' 28.8" W |
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Equipment: Canon 15mm fisheye, kaidan quickpan 3 spherical, 8 detent disk |
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This preamble has almost nothing ot do with this pano, but non-the-less...
I took a trip home to Yorkshire with the intention of photographing the "Crimple Valley Viaduct". However, things didn't go as planned. After walking cross country for ..
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| Photo: David Spencer |
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Derry, N Ireland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 1' 3" N |
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Long: 7° 17' 43.4" W |
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| Date/Time: |
15:00 GMT (16:00 BST) 18th September 2004 |
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Equipment: Taken with a Minolta DImage 7 digital camera, with a 7.2-50.8 mm 2.8 lens at 7.2 (equivalent to 28mm). Mounted on a Kaidan Kiwi-L pano-head. Stitched with VRWorx 2.5 |
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Foyle Bridge, taken from madams bank, near Derry N.Ireland.
There is a small oil tanker passing by and under the bridge. (Yes it is the same one three times!) I was just about to finish and leave the sand bank for dry land, when the tanker lef..
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| Photo: George Row |
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Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 57° 10' 38.8" N |
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Long: 2° 5' 52.7" W |
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| Date/Time: |
4:50pm British Summer Time, 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Canon EOS 10D, Sigma 8mm Fisheye, Manfrotto 303SPH panhead
Software: Photoshop CS, PTMac, CubicConverter |
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The Brig o'Balgownie is one of the oldest bridges in the UK and crosses a gorge on the River Don on the edge of Old Aberdeen.
The building of the Brig o'Balgownie that started c.1290 was completed c.1320 thanks to King Robert the Bruce, after delays caused by..
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| Photo: Phil Marston |
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Kingston Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 51' 15.1" N |
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Long: 4° 16' 7.7" W |
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| Date/Time: |
18th September 2004, 3pm GMT |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, handheld, stitched with PTGui. |
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The Kingston Bridge opened in 1969 and the ten-lanes (five in each direction) have made it Europe's busiest road bridge, with 180,000 vehicles a day using it. The bridge links the eastern M8 motorway with the western M8 motorway and lies within the city centre..
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| Photo: Bill Ward |
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