 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
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| Lat: 45° 20' 8" N |
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Long: 76° 17' 11" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11:30 AM ET 22/09/04 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 950, WC -E24 wide converter, Kaidan KIWI 900-950 head, tripod |
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The Pakenham Stone Bridge built in 1901 crosses the Mississippi River at the Village of Pakenham in the Municipality of Mississippi Mills in Ontario, Canada. This bridge is the only 5 arch masonry stone bridge on the North American continent. The bridge measur..
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| Photo: Robert Agnel |
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Pakenham, Ontario, Canada
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| Lat: 45° 20' 8" N |
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Long: 76° 17' 13" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 19, 2004, ~6:30 pm EST |
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Equipment: Nikon F-90X with Sigma fisheye 2.8/15mm, Velbon CX-480 tripod with custom camera mount, film - Kodak Supra 200, film scanner - Minolta Dimage Scan Dual, software - Photovista Panorama 3.0, PanoTools, Photoshop 5LE, PanoCube Plus. |
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The bridge was built in 1901 over Missisipi river (Canadian Missisipi river, not the Yellow River!) at the small town of Pakenham, Ontario. It is (as stated at the memorial plate) "the only stone arch bridge in North America having 5 masonry arches". The bridg..
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| Photo: Alex Makienko |
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West Montrose, Ontario, Canada
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| Lat: 43° 35' 12" N |
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Long: 80° 28' 57" W |
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Sunday, September 19th, 2 PM, EST |
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Equipment: Canon Powershot A70, standard lens, no pano-head, Velbon CX440 tripod.
Hugin, autopano, panotools, enblend, PanoCube. |
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Saint-Placide, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
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| Lat: 47° 25' .1" N |
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Long: 70° 37' 59.9" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 22th, 2004, at 14h PM (GMT-05) |
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Equipment: Taken with a sigma 8mm and canon EOS300D. |
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The covered bridge in Saint-Placide was built in 1926 to span the river of the Bras du Nord-Ouest (Northwest arm). Its "town québécois" architectural style is the last of its kind in the greater Quebec City region ! The covered structure is to pr..
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| Photo: Arnaud Guyomard |
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| Lat: 45° 29' 33" N |
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Long: 73° 31' 0" W |
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The St-Lambert lock system is one of the giant locks of the St-Lawrence Seaway. The St-Lawrence Seaway connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. The waterway was a project jointly run by the United States of America and Canada. Its construction lasted fr..
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| Photo: Yann Leroy |
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Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada
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| Lat: 50° 25' 21.9" N |
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Long: 103° 16' 25" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 21, 12:33 am CST |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 with FC-E8 fisheye converter, mounted on home-made cubic pano head. 6 shots, shutter: 1/493, aperture: f7.1, focal length: 12.90 mm, ISO 100. |
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The town of Wolseley, SK was established on the Canadian Pacific railway line in 1882. Wolf creek flows north through the town and drains into the Qu'appelle river, 15 kilometers north of town. in 1902, the railway dammed the creek, creating a man-made lake t..
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| Photo: David Gerhard |
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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
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| Lat: 37° 46' 14.9" N |
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Long: 122° 28' 2.3" W |
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3 pm PDT |
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Equipment: Olympus E-1 with an Olympus 14-108mm lens at 14 mm (equivalent to 28mm), mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III. |
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The famous Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park dates back to 1894. It began as the Japanese village display at the Midwinter Fair, then was relocated and expanded, to its present size of 5 acres. It was designed and maintained by Makoto Hag..
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| Photo: G. Donald Bain |
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 49' 39" N |
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Long: 122° 28' 54" W |
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| Date/Time: |
20:40 pm PDT, 20 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 18mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: QuickTime VR Authoring Studio (QTVRAS), Photoshop CS, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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The Golden Gate Bridge is truly a world renowned landmark. It's arguably not only the symbol of California, but of the American West itself. Built in 1937 to span the Golden Gate Strait and connect Marin County and the rural north to San Francisco, the Br..
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| Photo: Landis Bennett |
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Roberts Ferry, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 38' 9" N |
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Long: 120° 37' 6" W |
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| Date/Time: |
5pm Pacific Daylight Time, 21 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Sony DSC-F707 and Bogen Tripod
Software: Apple QTVRAS V.1 |
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One of the most important stopping places on the Stockton/Mariposa Road, the first Tuolumne River Ferry was established 3/8 mile downstream from here by Alden Jackson and Dr. Benjamin Horr in 1850. Dr Horr, who came to California in 1849 for the Gold Rush, was..
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| Photo: Chuck Denny |
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 6' 20" N |
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Long: 118° 16' 46" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 21, 2004 1PM PDT |
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Equipment: Shot with Fuji S2Pro with a Sigma 8mm Fisheye lens on a Bogen 3415 customized Pano Head. Stitched with PTMac, processed with XBlend, Photoshop CS and Cubic Converter 2.0.4. |
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The Shakespeare Bridge was built in 1926 in Franklin Heights just east of Hollywood near the Silverlake Reservoir. The bridge is very heavily traveled and I'm sure most who cross it don't realize its there. The ravine it crosses is full of houses and the neigh..
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| Photo: Robert C. Fisher |
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Yolo County, California, USA
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| Lat: 38° 40' 16" N |
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Long: 121° 37' 31" W |
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| Date/Time: |
10:50 am PDT, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: D100, Nikkor 18mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: PTMac, XBlend, CubicConverter, Photoshop 7.0, QT Player Pro |
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge spans the Sacramento River on Interstate-5, connecting Yolo and Sacramento counties (to the west and east, respectively). This is a view from atop a levee to the south of the bridge. Unlike many bridges near the Sacramento..
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| Photo: Ryan E. Galt |
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Pasadena, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 8' 39" N |
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Long: 118° 9' 59" W |
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| Date/Time: |
4:28PM Pacific Daylight Time, 19 September, 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon EOS-20D, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QPIII; RAW processed in Photoshop CS with LensFix, stitched in PTMac, exposure blended in Photoshop CS, converted in CubicConverter |
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The Colorado Street Bridge was completed in 1913 to span Arroyo Seco, a gorge carved out of the San Gabriel Mountain Range. Now part of Pasadena, California, a beautiful town in Southern California near Los Angeles, Arroyo Seco was once a naturalists paradise,..
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| Photo: Roger Howard |
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Lat: 34° 6' 29" N |
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Long: 118° 15' 18" W |
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| Date/Time: |
6:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5400 with FC-E9 Fisheye lens - using travle bracket for the FC-E9 - Stitched 3D-Vista stitcher Post in Photoshop, output using PanoCube. |
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The Fletcher Drive Bridge over the Los Angeles River, completed in 1927. The trees are part of the Egret Park which runs along the Los Angeles river, this park have materialized in the concrete path of the Los Angeles river and is now home to a great diversit..
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| Photo: Bo Lorentzen |
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San Francisco, California, USA
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| Lat: 37° 48' 30" N |
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Long: 122° 26' 24" W |
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| Date/Time: |
8:30am Pacific Daylight Time, 18 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)/ES-F 18-55 lens (at 18mm)/Tiltall tripod/modified Kaidan KIWI 260/265 pan head/Photoshop CS and QTVRAS software. |
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Big Boats Race from the Golden Gate Bridge to Treasure Island in San Francisco.
The 40th Annual St. Francis Perpetual Trophy Regatta, better known as the Big Boat Series, was held on San Francisco Bay from September 16-19. This panorama was shot from the end ..
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| Photo: Lee Nelson |
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Long Beach, California, USA
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| Lat: 33° 45' 8.6" N |
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Long: 118° 11' 21.5" W |
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| Date/Time: |
About 1:00 pm PDT |
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Equipment: Panoscan with 16mm lens; PanoPost, CubicConverter, Neat Image, Photoshop, LiveStage Pro |
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Prior to the advent of air travel, ships provided the only bridges between continents. Some luxury liners, such as the Queen Mary, also became virtual bridges between times of war and peace when they served as troop transports in WW II.
As a historical..
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| Photo: Ken Stuart |
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Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 38° 17' 45" N |
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Long: 105° 19' 29" W |
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Equipment: Nikon D100 digital camera, Nikkor 10.5mm DX fisheye lens, Manfrotto 303SPH spherical panorama head, Nikon Capture and Realviz Stitcher software. |
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The Royal Gorge is the highest suspension bridge in the world. Built in 1929 at a cost of $350.00, it is 1053 feet above the Arkansas River. The bridge is 1,260 feet long and 18'
wide. Each of the two suspension cables consist of 2100 strands of wire. Each str..
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| Photo: John Blake |
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Curecanti National Recreation Area, about 20 Miles East of Montrose, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 38° 27' 6" N |
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Long: 107° 32' 59" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 19, 2004 1240 PM MDT |
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Equipment: Canon G5 digital camera, WC-DC58N Wide Converter, CRW original capture, Photoshop CS, Stiched in QTVRAS, Quicktime Pro forfinal preparation. |
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Curecanti National Recreation Area Colorado is located East of Montrose in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, USA. This is a very deep natural canyon formed out of volcanic eruptions 30 million years ago. The Gunnison River cut through the volcani..
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| Photo: Charles Carstensen |
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Denver, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 39° 44' 17.9" N |
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Long: 104° 59' 16.8" W |
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| Date/Time: |
09:15:54 Mountain Time |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, Bogan 302, Photoshop CS, PTGUI/PanoTools and Panocube |
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Three Centuries of Denver Architecture
[Denver, Colorado, USA] By European standards Denver is not an 'old' city, yet three centuries of architecture are represented in this panorama. The red brick mansion is known as the Byers-Evans House and was built..
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| Photo: John Fellers |
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