 Bridges - A World Wide Panorama September 18-22, 2004 |
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Canyon City, Colorado, USA
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| Lat: 38° 17' 39" N |
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Long: 105° 19' 32" W |
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| Date/Time: |
17:22 Mountain Standard Time 9/22/2004 |
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Equipment: Canon 10D/Sigma 8mm/Bogen 303 PanHead/PanoTools/PTGui |
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Royal Gorge Bridge and Park in Cañon City, Colorado
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Meriwether County, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 33° 8' 9" N |
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Long: 84° 33' 30" W |
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09/22/04 12:00 |
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Equipment: Dimage 7ug/panotools |
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The bridge was built in the 1840's by freed slave and noted bridge builder Horace King (1807-1885).
Contructed on the Town lattice design,the bridge's web of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles are fastened at each intersection with a tota..
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| Photo: Sacha Griffin |
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Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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| Lat: 33° 47' 20.1" N |
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Long: 84° 23' 31.3" W |
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3:30pm EST (+04 GMT) |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, 17-40L, 17mm, Digital, QTVRAS. |
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Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
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| Lat: 42° 36' 1" N |
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Long: 114° 27' 12" W |
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| Date/Time: |
20:33 UTC, 18th September 2004 |
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Equipment: Canon D60, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan Quickpan III, PhotoshopCS, PTGui, XBlend, CubicConverter, and thanks to Peter Nyfeler for mirror cap action. |
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The Perrine Memorial Bridge was completed in July, 1978. It is 1500 feet in length and approximately 480 feet above the Snake River.
The Perrine bridge is about a 70 mi. drive from my home in Hailey Idaho. It was a gray fall day, threatning rain for the bett..
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| Photo: Jim Liesenfeld |
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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| Lat: 41° 53' 21.1" N |
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Long: 87° 37' 27.5" W |
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| Date/Time: |
Monday, September 20, 2004 2 PM CST |
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Equipment: Taken with an Nikon CoolPix 950, wide angle lens and a Kaidan tripod head. Stitched with Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Studio. |
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I love this majestic bridge in Chicago lined with flags of the United States, Chicago and Illinois fluttering in the wind. The Michigan Avenue Bridge in Chicago, designated a Chicago landmark in 1991, is one of a series of many bridges along the Chicago River...
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| Photo: James Arthur |
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London Avenue Canal Bridge at Robert E. Lee, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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| Lat: 30° 1' 13" N |
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Long: 90° 7' 19" W |
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9/19/2004 about 7pm |
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Equipment: D100/14mm/3Sixty/QTVRAS |
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New Orleans has 325 miles of hurricane protection levees that are mostly 18 feet above sea level. Some of these levees border the many canals through our city. We have dozens of bridges that cross these canals. All of these type bridges are slowly being replac..
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| Photo: Ray Broussard |
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Savage, Maryland, USA
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| Lat: 39° 8' 4.9" N |
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Long: 76° 49' 29.1" W |
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| Date/Time: |
09/18/2004 6:30pm EST |
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Equipment: Fuji Pro S2, Nikkor 8mm, Monopod, Panorama Tools |
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This is the world's only surviving example of the distinctive iron truss system pioneered by the engineer Wendel Bollman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1850.
An unusual blend of cast-iron and wrought-iron bracing gives the two-span, 160-foot-long brid..
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| Photo: András L. Frenyo |
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Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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| Lat: 42° 28' 10" N |
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Long: 71° 21' 1" W |
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09/18/2004, 6:42 PM EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, f11 at .77 sec, Kaidan QuickPan III, Panorama Tools (Professor Dersch, you rock!), PTGui, Panocube Plus, Photoshop CS
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(Location suggested by my beautiful wife Mary Ann, the love of my life.)
On April 19, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to Concord to destroy American munitions there. Warned by Paul Revere and others, local militia and Minutemen watched silen..
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| Photo: Edward S. Fink |
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Grand Haven, Michigan, USA
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| Lat: 43° 4' 34.2" N |
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Long: 86° 13' 5.5" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9/18/04 2:30pm EST |
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Equipment: Camera: Nikon D70.
Lens: Sigma 12-24mm at 12mm.
Panoramic Head: Manfrotto 303sph.
Setup: 10 shots horizontal, 10 at 45°, 10 at -45°.
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS, PTgui, Panotools, Enblend. |
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This cubic VR was taken from the north side of the Grand River as it flows through Grand Haven, Michigan just before entering Lake Michigan. The bridge with the blue span is highway US 31. This drawbridge, during the summer, will stop traffic to open allowing ..
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| Photo: K. Wayne Degner |
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Mackinaw City, Michigan, USA
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| Lat: 45° 46' 53.8" N |
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Long: 84° 43' 40.1" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9/19/2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D1X, 10.5mm lens, custom panhead, Sticher 3.5 |
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Spanning the Straits of Mackinac, The Mackinac Bridge at 26,372 Ft. (five miles) it's the third longest suspension bridge in the USA. Connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsula. Open to traffic on November 1st 1957, by June 1998 the 100 millionths crossin..
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| Photo: Mark Houston |
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Intersection of Nicollet Mall and 6th Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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| Lat: 44° 58' 40" N |
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Long: 93° 16' 17" W |
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1:00 PM CDT (19:00UTC) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 8700, wide angle lens, Kaidan Quickpan III Spherical, Stitcher |
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The Nicollet Mall and the Minneapolis Skyway system both represent bridges.
Nicollet Mall is a 12 block long pedestrian thoroughfare between Washington Ave and 13th St. It was one of the first pedestrian malls when it was created in 1967. Open to - read more -
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| Photo: Grant Hermanson |
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Near Rincon, New Mexico, USA
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| Lat: 32° 40' 5" N |
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Long: 107° 7' 11" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 19, 2004 2015 UTC |
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Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 8mm lens, Manfrotto tripod, Kaidan Kiwi+ pano head. Photoshop CS and PTMac |
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This wonderful railroad bridge is located near the town of Hatch, New Mexico, home of the finest chile in the world. The bridge spans the Rio Grande River and we are fortunate to see that the river has water in it at this time of the year...
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| Photo: John Mitchener |
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New Rochelle, New York, USA
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| Lat: 40° 56' 25" N |
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Long: 73° 47' 17" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11:45am Eastern Standard Time, 20 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D70, 18-70mm Nikkor Lens, 512 CF, Jasper Engineering Pano Head, Bogen Tripod
Software: Photoshop CS, Panotools Plug-ins, Realviz Stitcher 3.5.1, Quicktime Pro |
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The "Bud" Winter Bridge awaits golfers as they tee off for the 12th hole at Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, New York. Walkers are treated to a scenic 75 yard (68.5 meter) walk across a deep hollow from tee to fairway. At the highest point golfers look ..
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| Photo: Elizabeth Gentile |
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New York City, New York, USA
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| Lat: 40° 51' 0" N |
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Long: 73° 56' 49" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 19, 2004, 3:30pm Eastern Daylight Time |
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Equipment: Nikon D-100, 8mm Sigma lens, Kaidan panoramic head. Stitched with PTGui/Panorama Tools, converted to QuickTimeVR with PanoCube. |
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The George Washington Bridge crosses the Hudson River between Fort Lee, NJ and Upper Manhattan in New York City. The bridge was designed by Swiss-American engineer Othmar H. Ammann, then-Chief Engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. ..
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| Photo: Ralph Greene |
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New York City, New York, USA
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| Lat: 40° 42' 23" N |
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Long: 73° 59' 55" W |
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| Date/Time: |
6:51pm Eastern Daylight Time, 19 September 2004 |
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Equipment: Hardware: Fuji S2 camera, Nikkor 8mm/2.8 lens. Exposure: f4 at 1/8 second, ISO 400.
Software: PTMac and Panorama Tools. Additional post-production with PhotoShop, CubicConverter and CubicConnecter. |
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The Brooklyn Bridge is the most famous of three bridges spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. It has probably the most traveled pedestrian traffic of any suspension bridge. The broad promenade above the roadway has lanes for walkers and biker..
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| Photo: Jook Leung |
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DUMBO area of New York City, New York, USA
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| Lat: 40° 42' 12.6" N |
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Long: 73° 59' 33.4" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 21, 2004 - 1 pm |
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Equipment: Nikon 5700, QTVRAS |
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When I heard about the bridges concept, I immediately thought of this park in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, where there is a great view of both the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges. This was the day after George Bush spoke at the United Nations to justify th..
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| Photo: Erik Olsen |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Lat: 39° 57' 14.35" N |
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Long: 75° 8' 23.05" W |
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Constructed from 1922 to 1926, the Delaware River Bridge opened on July 1, 1926 to span the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey as the world's longest suspension bridge. That record was surpassed 5 years later by the Geo..
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| Photo: Yischon Liaw |
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East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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| Lat: 41° 49' 6" N |
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Long: 71° 23' 9" W |
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| Date/Time: |
7:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, September 20, 2004 |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, 18-70 NIkon lens, Kaidan Universal head, 12 shots, Photoshop, VRWorks, QuickTime Pro |
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The Washington Bridge carries the lanes of I-195 over the Seekonk River. The Washington Bridge was constructed between 1928 and 1930 to replace an outmoded 1885 steel truss swing span bridge. Consulting engineer Clarence W. Hudson of New York completed the e..
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| Photo: Edward Huff |
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