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Energy - a World Wide Panorama

During the days following the Equinox (the date when day and night are of equal length) more than 200 photographers located around the globe produced panoramic photographs with the theme of "Energy". These amazing digital images give you the ability to look around in all directions from each unique location.

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WWP 304 - Marketplace | WWP 604 - World Heritage | WWP 904 - Bridges | WWP 1204 - Sanctuary | WWP 305 - Marketplace | WWP 605 - Water | WWP 905 - Energy | WWP 1205 - Best of 2005

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Laser  
Trois-Rivières Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Lat: 46° 20' 48.12" N Long: 72° 32' 36.96" W
Date/Time: 16-September-2005 9:00 AM
Equipment:
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
Laser is one of the most fascinating forms of energy. A concentrated beam of light. Invented at Bell Laboratories in 1958, th..
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Photo: Yuval Levy
Moulin Seigneurial  
Pointe-du-Lac, Québec, Canada
Lat: 46° 17' 11.4" N Long: 72° 41' 24" W
Date/Time: 23.09.05, 16:00
Equipment: Thanks to Yuval Levy that i could use it. Camera and Tripod Panotools 2.7.0.10 Thanks Jim Watters PT Gui 5.1 Thanks Joost Nieuwenhuijse Enblend 2.3 Thanks Andrew Mihal Panorama Tools Plug-Ins (16-bit) Thanks Thomas Niemann Pano2QTVRThanks Thomas Rauscher Adobe Photoshop
This Mill was used to grind flour and is one of the oldest in Québec. As Energy Source water was used to turn the wheels. It's really interesting how the whole thing is working with all these gear wheels. This is my first Contribution and it should rememb..
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Photo: Christoph Tobler
Rushlake Creek Wind Power Site  
25 Kilometers southeast of Swift Creek, Saskacthewan, Canada
Lat: 50° 10' 8.76" N Long: 107° 27' 32.4" W
Date/Time: September 23, 2005 4:09PM (22:09 UTC)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, FC-E8 Fisheye Lens, Custom tripod head, PTMac to stitch, 6 shots (North, South, East, West, Zenith, Nadir) using "panorama assist", landscape mode. Photos: 2272x1704.
Saskatchewan is a province of wide open spaces, and there are many opportunities for harvesting the enormous power which is held in the wind as it passes over the fields of wheat, flax and canola. Before the Rushlake project, Sasktchewan was generating 22 meg..
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Photo: David Gerhard
Desert Windmills  
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Array, near Palm Springs, California, USA
Lat: 33° 55' 39" N Long: 116° 36' 44" W
Date/Time: 9/24/05 07:00
Equipment: I am using a Canon 20D and my new Tamron 11-18 zoom with a Bogen 303SPH head.
I went to the Southern California desert area near Palm Springs and shot some of the many electric power generating windmills. This is a morning shot about 7:00 AM. It was very windy, warm and a beautiful fall day. I left the image overlap of the windmill blad..
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Photo: Eric Anderson
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power  
Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA
Lat: 34° 3' 24.29" N Long: 118° 14' 58.81" W
Date/Time: Sunday, September 25th, 2005 | 3:04 PM PDT
Equipment: Minolta Dimage Z1 (3.2 megapixel camera with a 28mm equivalent wide angle adaptor) sitting on a custom made pano bracket which sits on my 30 year old Vivitar 2200 tripod which has a broken foot. PTgui used for stitching, Photoshop 6 used for tweaking, MakeCubic used for conversion to QTVR.
This is home of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the nation's largest municipal utility, established more than 100 years ago to deliver reliable, safe water and electricity to some 3.8 million residents and businesses in Los Angeles. ..
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Photo: Bryant Arnett
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
Berkeley, California, USA
Lat: 37° 52' 36" N Long: 122° 14' 42" W
Date/Time: September 25, 2005 4 pm
Equipment: Photographed with an Olympus E-1, 14-54mm lens at 14mm (28mm film equivalent), mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III, Acratech Ultimate Ballhead, and Velbon tripod. Stitched with Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, edited with Adobe Photoshop CS, on a Macintosh G5.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has played a leading role in furthering mankind's understanding of energy and matter. It was founded in 1931 by E.O. Lawrence for experiments in high-energy physics..
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Photo: G. Donald Bain
Progressive Energy  
Petaluma, California, USA
Lat: 38° 13' 54.84" N Long: 122° 38' 11.76" W
Date/Time: 25 January 2005 around 4:00 pm
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop CS, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep
This is not a protest. It is a political festival held yearly in Petaluma in the park at the end of my driveway. As the website for the Progressive Festival proclaims, "The Petaluma Progressi..
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Photo: Kat Bennett
Big Geysers (Calpine 13) Geothermal Power Plant  
The Geysers, Lake and Sonoma Counties, California, USA
Lat: 38° 46' 19.75" N Long: 122° 43' 41.25" W
Date/Time: 09:32 PDT, 21 September 2005
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop CS, Enblend, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep
Photo: Landis Bennett
The Energy of Love and Friendship  
Griffith Woods, near Santa Rosa, California, USA
Lat: 38° 27' 43" N Long: 122° 51' 11" W
Date/Time: September 22, 2005
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100 (?), Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical (?) [I was using Landis's rig :)] Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, REALVIZ Stitcher, Photoshop, CubicConverter, deliVRator
I got to spend the Autumnal Equinox with some wonderful folks, in a very beautiful part of California -- and we were all there to witness and celebrate the union in marriage of two very cool people -- Kat Kalamaras and Landis Bennett. :) Don Bain..
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Photo: Patrick Cheatham
Hunters Point Power Plant  
San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 44' 10.32" N Long: 122° 22' 33.6" W
Date/Time: September 22, 3:43 p.m. UTC (8:43 a.m. local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm Nikkor lens, 360 Precision head, PTMac and CubicConverter
Hunters Point Power Plant is located on the bank of the San Francisco Bay between Herons Head Wetland Park and the India Basin Shoreline Park in San Francisco. Operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the aging power plant has been under environmental..
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Photo: Jed Clark
Sunrise from Strawberry Rock  
Trinidad, California, USA
Lat: 41° 5' 2.36" N Long: 124° 8' 1.68" W
Date/Time: September 25, 07:30 PST
Equipment: CoolPix995, handheld
The sun is a primary source of energy. In this view from Strawberry Rock one is overlooking the beginning of a day abundant in photosynthesis. About Strawberry Rock: When I first moved to Trinidad I heard two things that fit nicely together. The first is that..
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Photo: Stephen Hamilton
The Energetic Exchange of Ideas  
Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA
Lat: 34° 2' 40.2" N Long: 118° 15' 14.4" W
Date/Time: September 24, 2005, 13:41:30-07:00
Equipment: Canon EOS-20D, Sigma 8mm, Manfrotto tripod and pano head. Six shots @ ISO100, f/8, 1/200s.
On September 24, 2005, thousands gathered in Downtown Los Angeles to protest the ongoing war in Iraq. I doubt there was more energy anywhere else that day in Los Angeles, all along Broadway up to the Federal Building and City Hall...
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Photo: Roger Howard
Cottonwood's Marvelous Methane Machine  
Joseph Farms' Cottonwood Dairy, Atwater, California, USA
Lat: 37° 17' 44" N Long: 120° 39' 58" W
Date/Time: September 21, 2005, 2:34 pm local time
Equipment: Nikon D50, Sigma 8mm lens, home-built panorama head on 3-meter pole, triggered by the gentLED infrared shutter switch. Four portrait images stitched with PTMac, blended with Enblend, and tweaked in Photoshop CS with Noise Ninja.
Joseph Gallo’s Cottonwood Farm near Merced, in California’s central valley, is home to 5000 milk cows, and processes 900,000 pounds (408,000 kg) of cheese each day. But the most impressive thing about Cottonwood is that each year, it generates 2.5 million..
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Photo: Brooks Leffler
Historical Oil Rig  
Taft, Kern County, California, USA
Lat: 35° 7' 59" N Long: 119° 26' 52" W
Date/Time: September 25 2005 13:30 Pacific Time
Equipment: Canon Pro1 with FC-E9 fisheye lens - Mounted on my travle bracket and stitched using PT-gui 4.1
Today’s love affair with huge SUV's is fueled by petroleum products. We simply are not driving anywhere without gas delivering the energy to move our vehicles. Kern County is central to this production in the United States, and I chose to photograph my ..
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Photo: Bo Lorentzen
Altamont Pass Wind Farm - Renewable Energy Resource  
Altamont Pass, California, USA
Lat: 37° 44' 39" N Long: 121° 38' 10" W
Date/Time: September 23, 2005, 11:12 am local time
Equipment: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)/ES-F, 18-55mm lens (at 18mm) Tiltall tripod/modified Kaidan KIWI 260/265 pan head Photoshop CS and QTVRAS software
While electric generating windfarms such as the Altamont Pass Wind Farm — about 40 miles west of San Francisco, California — are a relatively recent phenomenon the use of windmills to co..
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Photo: Lee Nelson
California ISO Control Center  
Folsom, California, USA
Lat: 38° 39' 8.28" N Long: 121° 11' 5.28" W
Date/Time: September 21, 2005 - 9:45 AM Local time
Equipment: Canon 1DsMkII with 15mm fisheye lens mounted on a Really Right Stuff spherical bracket and a Manfrotto panorama head.
The Control Center for the California ISO (Independent System Operator) is the high-tech electricity traffic controller for 75 percent of the state, directing some 200 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to utilities that serve an estimated 30 milli..
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Photo: Mike Posehn
Rock Concert at Hollywood's Whisky A Go-Go  
Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, USA
Lat: 34° 5' 54.12" N Long: 118° 24' 23.64" W
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 11:00pm PST
Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, PTMac, MakeCubic
WWP: Energy - What's more energetic than a lightning storm? - the Energy of a rock concert exists on many levels. LA locals Paperback Hero rocks the house at the Whisky a Go-Go. KSLX had a birthday bash at the Whisky A Go-Go, and I had an in, so the inter..
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Photo: John E Schwarzell
150,000 Calories  
San Fernando Valley, California, USA
Lat: 34° 14' 10.5" N Long: 118° 31' 55.77" W
Date/Time: September 24, 8:00 am PDT
Equipment: Shot with a Nikon D70 with 10.5 mm lens mounted on a Precision360 head, using 6 shots around, one up and one down. Stitched with PTMac 3.x and Enblend, converted to cubic format with CubicConverter. Edited with Photoshop CS. Set to open to a random starting point and automatically rotate with LiveStage Pro.
Every weekend the members of the San Fernando Valley Bicycling Club ride together on various local routes ranging from 30 to 100 miles. Some riders are more intense than others, but all burn off quite a few calories as they ride. Calories are a measure of heat..
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Photo: Ken Stuart
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