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Weatherford, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 32° 41' 11" N |
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Long: 97° 48' 14" W |
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September 24, 2005 0940am (GMT -6) |
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Equipment: Canon XT Rebel (350d), Sigma 8, Manfrotto 742B digi tripod, Kaidan Kiwi990 Panhead, 4 +0 RAW images, PhotoShop CS2, Panoweaver4, PTgui 4.1, Audio toolbar FlashMX, and Pano2QTVR. Freeware music loop by Nemo. |
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Power Storage
This energy collection farm contains two wind generators and two solar arrays that generate and supply the storage batteries.
These four banks of batteries each store 360 ampere hours of power. Total capacity of 1,440 ampere hours direct current..
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| Photo: Pat Albright |
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Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 27° 36' 04" N |
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Long: 97° 12' 35" W |
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07H30 / Saturday 24 September 2005 |
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Equipment: Nikkor 10.5mm lens
Manfrotto 303sph pano head
Photoshop CS2, PTGui, pano2qtvr |
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Today is September 24, 2005. It's 7:30 AM Saturday morning, about 15 minutes after sunrise. It is very different from any other Texas coastline morning because today Hurricane Rita, the 3rd most powerful hurricane in history is making landfall in Texas.
It..
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| Photo: Patrick Born |
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Sugar Land, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 29° 35' 29.92" N |
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Long: 95° 35' 36.39" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9/23/2005 7:24 PM CST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70 w Nikon 10.5mm lens
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Kingwood, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 30° 2' 28.32" N |
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Long: 95° 9' 18" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9/25/2005 19:36 local time |
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Equipment: 1DsmkII, 15mm F2.8 full frame fisheye.
exp: ISO400, 4sec, F11 |
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This Panorama was taken.
41 hours after our electricity when off.
37 hours after Rita's land fall in Louisiana some 95 miles to our east southeast.
21 hours after our electricity came back on.
There was a lot of energy used and wasted before and after R..
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| Photo: Robert S. Haan |
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Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
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| Lat: 31° 34' 10" N |
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Long: 94° 29' 20" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 25 ,2005 5:15pm Local time |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, 20MM 2.8,
PTMac 3.1Beta, nona, enblend,
Mac G5 Dual 1.8 |
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This panorama event came when East Texas was preparing for a massive display of nature's energy. Luckily, a lot of that energy was lost by the time it got up to my house. Still, an incredible amount of force is necessary to split a tree in two different ..
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| Photo: Christopher K. Talbot |
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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| Lat: 40° 45' 31" N |
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Long: 111° 52' 11" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 25, 2005 - 8:00 AM MST |
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Equipment: Sony Cybershot F717, Raynox FE180Pro lens, Kaidan QuickPan spherical head, Hakuba 504-MX tripod. Composed with Stitcher 4 on a PowerBook G4. |
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Gilgal Garden
This perplexing Mormon sculpture garden is perhaps Salt Lake City's most bizarre landmark. It features a self-portrait of the original sculptor wearing some stylish brick pants, dozens of stepping stones engraved with LDS poems and sc..
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| Photo: Scott Doenges |
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Weybridge, Vermont, USA
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| Lat: 44° 04' 16" N |
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Long: 73° 11' 39" W |
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September, 22nd, 2005 at 12 noon (Eastern Standard Time) |
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Equipment: Nikon - D70 / Sigma - 8mm |
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Couldn't resist shooting this literal translation of energy after seeing
the hydroelectric power generation facility on Otter Creek
at Huntington Falls in Weybridge VT.
Seen here are 2, 800kw turbines installed at this site in the early 1900's.
I was t..
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| Photo: Tom Pollak |
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Wakefield Park, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
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| Lat: 38° 49' 15" N |
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Long: 77° 13' 28" W |
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September 24, 2005 - 11:35 AM EST |
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Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 8mm 2.8f fisheye lense at f8, Kaidan spherical head w/leveler, Gitzo tripod, mountain bike - processed four raw files in Photoshop with Jook Leung's HDR action, stitched with EasyPano 4.0, zenith/nader touch-up in Photoshop, CubicConverter to create mov files. |
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I shot this same image on the Saturday before as a test and got good results. Unfortunately, the day of the shoot was heavily overcast and I just completed the shots when drops of rain started falling. I only had about half an hour availabe to shoot because I ..
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| Photo: K. Wayne Heil |
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Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center, Loudoun County, Purcellville, Virginia, USA
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| Lat: 39° 7' 0" N |
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Long: 77° 44' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
September 21, 2005 noon |
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Equipment: Canon Rebel XT 8MP camera,
Sigma 8mm lens,
Kaidan steel head,
Panotools & PTMac 3.0v55,
Photoshop CS2 with 32-bit HDR,
Cubic Converter 2.1 |
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Inspiring to some, depressing to others
How can you not be inspired by free energy from the sun? Rising fuel costs and recent disasters illustrate the importance of renewable, decentralized energy systems like this. Located just outside of Washingto..
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| Photo: Skip Steuart |
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Near Kennewick, Washington, USA
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| Lat: 46° 06' 35" N |
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Long: 119° 04' 17" W |
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| Date/Time: |
09/24/05, 3:30 PM PDT |
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Equipment: Canon D60 with Sigma 8mm on Kaidan Kiwi pano head + (old blue) leveler, Gitzo tripod
ISO 100
f16/125
2048 x 3072 jpegs
Graphic Converter 5.7.1 + PanoTools plugins (Kekus)
Kekus PTMac 3.0 + XBlend 1.2, to 6160 x 3180 final tiff file
Mac OS .4 on GigEther G4, 1.5Gig RAM +Sonnet Encore Duet |
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Nine Canyon Wind Project
Near Kennewick, Washington, this is one of the largest public power owned wind projects in the nation. The total potential generating capacity of Nine Canyon is ~63.7 megawatts.
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| Photo: John Dobbins |
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