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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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Power  
Eltham, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lat: 37° 41' 46" S Long: 145° 10' 02" E
Date/Time: 6:00pm 21st September 2005
Equipment: Ricoh Caplio GX, Home-made pano head, Corel Photo Paint 12, Stitcher 4
Near my house these powerlines carry electricity around the city of Melbourne. The powerlines run at 500kV from one sub station to the next. Unfortunately most of the electricity for Melbourne is generated by coal, although some is generated by hydro, wind and..
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Photo: Nick Milligan
Starfish Hill Wind Farm  
Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Lat: 35° 34' 44.94" S Long: 138° 7' 43.32" E
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 15:49 local time
Equipment: Nikon D70s Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye Custom pano head PTMac 3.1 www.kekus.com Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Compressed RAW (12-bit) 1/320 sec - F/8
Starfish Hill is South Australia's first wind farm, located at the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. There are 23 turbines, each capable of producing 1.5MW in a particularly stiff breeze. Th..
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Photo: Ben Nelson
Untapped Child Labour  
Lake Ginninderra, Canberra, Australia
Lat: 35° 14' 8" S Long: 149° 4' 31" E
Date/Time: 3:15 PM - 24 September 2005
Equipment: Canon EOS 20D digital camera. Sigma 8mm fisheye lens. Kaidan QuickPan Panorama head. Multiple images touched up and combined with Photoshop prior to stitching. Stitching done with Panorama Tools, PTGUI, and Enblend. QuickTime generated with PanoCube.
In combining multiple exposures of a child at play, this panorama gives an impression of the energy poured over play equipment in the course of an afternoon. The difficulty in attempting this sort of time lapse sequence is that lighting conditions change makin..
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Photo: Andrew Novinc
The Insatiable Energy of a Lightning Strike  
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia
Lat: 35° 19' 13" S Long: 149° 00' 25" E
Date/Time: 17.40 / 24 September 2005
Equipment: Canon 10D mounted vertically on a tripod, 18 mm lens, manual focus and exposure. Stitched with PTGUI 4.1, converted to spherical QTVR with PanoCube. The panorama is a composite of 44 images.
Photo: Norman Peters
The Data Center  
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lat: 31° 58' 39.5" S Long: 115° 48' 58.14" E
Date/Time: 23 September 3am UTC
Equipment: Canon, Manfrotto, Realviz.
Energy comes in many different forms. Obviously one can see a Data Center as a large consumer of energy - it requires great amounts of electricity to power the equipment. The equipment in turn generates large amounts of thermal energy, which needs to be displa..
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Photo: Tobias Port
Snowy Mountains Scheme: Tumut 3 Power Station  
Talbingo, Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Lat: 35° 36' 36.75" S Long: 148° 17' 26.75" E
Date/Time: September 23, 2005 - 02:25 UTC (12:25 local time)
Equipment:
HARDWARE
Canon EOS 350D Digital (Digital Rebel XT) Camera
Canon BG-E3 Battery Grip
Canon RS-60E3 Remote Switch
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens
Canon EW-83E Lens Hood
Peace River Studios 3Sixty Panoramic Camera Mount
Manfrotto 338 Levelling Base
Acratech Universal Cork Top Quick Release Camera Plate
Acratech Ultimate Ballhead Tripod Head
Gitzo G1227MK2 Mountaineer Carbon Fibre Tripod
Inca Hotshoe-mount Dual Spirit Level
SanDisk Extreme III 1GB CompactFlash Memory Card
NextoDI Nexto-CF ND-2500 60GB Portable Storage Device
Garmin eTrex Vista C GPS Receiver
Burton Snowboards F-Stop Camera Backpack

SOFTWARE
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (RAW Conversion, Image Editing and Adjustments)
Kekus Digital PTMac (Pano Stitching)
Helmut Dersch's Panotools (Pano Stitching)
Kekus Digital XBlend (Pano Blending)
Andrew Mihal's Enblend (Pano Blending)
Thomas Rauscher's Pano2QTVR (Stitched Pano Image to QTVR Movie Conversion)

Photo: Simon Wheaton
Brooklyn Wind Turbine  
Wellington, New Zealand
Lat: 41° 18' 18" S Long: 174° 45' 25.2" E
Date/Time: September 22, 2005, 11 AM
Equipment: I shot this photo using a Nikon Coolpix 8400 8-megapixel digital camera with a Nikon FC-E9 183.5 degree FOV fisheye lens attached. I used Philo's two-shot stitching method to create the QTVR Panorama. The camera was lofted via kite, using a hand-built rig.
The Brooklyn wind turbine is situated atop a hill in Brooklyn, on the outskirts of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. From the hilltop, one can peer out on the horizon for an impressive view of the harbor and city center. Installed in 1993 as part of ..
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Photo: Scott Haefner
Turbine 1  
Danube power plant "Freudenau", Vienna, Austria
Lat: 48° 10' 34" N Long: 16° 28' 49" E
Date/Time: September 23, 2005 -- 16:15 MEST
Equipment: Nikon E4500, WC-E63, Manfrotto 028, Manfrotto 303SPH, Stitcher 5.0.1 & Inrfan-View

Freudenau Power Plant

Danube-river at river kilometer 1321.05 This power plant, completed in 1998, is the world’s first big run-of-river power station located in a city of over two million inhabitants. It was built directly in the river (wet constr..
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Photo: Clemens Pfeiffer
Cup of Coffee  
Mocca Club, Naschmarkt, Vienna, Austria
Lat: 48° 11' 59.54" N Long: 16° 21' 53.3" E
Date/Time: September 22th, 2005 16:45 local time (14:45 UTC)
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Peleng 8mm Fisheye PtGui, Pano2QTVR pro Mocca Club - Espresso No.III: Der Pate
Coffee is my primary source of energy. Excerpt from wikipedia: Coffee contains caffeine, which acts as a stimulant. For this reason, it is often consumed in the morning, and during working hours. Recent research has uncovered additional stimulating effects of..
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Photo: Thomas Rauscher
For How Long?  
Lobau, Vienna, Austria
Lat: 48° 11' 19.61" N Long: 16° 28' 30.04" E
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 - 11:40 UTC (13:40 local time)
Equipment: Canon EOS 10D, Sigma 8mm, custom made pano head, 6+2 photos. Stitched with PTGUI and Panotools. QTVR: PanoCubePlus
Oil today is still the primary source of energy for the world (particularly for the western industrialized countries). Both within the range of the economy and within the private sector we deal very carelessly and wastefully with the raw material oil. The old..
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Photo: Helmut Schierer
Paddle Steamer Gisela  
Lake Traunsee, Gmunden, Austria
Lat: 47° 54' 39.14" N Long: 13° 47' 41.42" E
Date/Time: Sept. 25, 2005 - 15:10 local time
Equipment: Image recording: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm Fisheye Automatic panohead on a boom stand (see http://dativ.at/motorhead ) Audio recording: Sony MZ-NH700 and MS907 microphone Post Processing: 3-bracket-shot, stitched with PTGui Some areas blended with Photomatrix, some areas manually blended Final movie creation with Pano2QTVR Audio edited with Cool Edit 2000
Photo: Bernhard Vogl
Preetjes Molen  
Heule Kortrijk, Belgium
Lat: 50° 50' 37" N Long: 3° 14' 51" E
Date/Time: 22-09-2005 13:00
Equipment: Hardware:
  • Panasonic FZ10
  • 0.42x wide angle adaptor
  • home made panohead (setup)
Software:
  • GTGUI
  • Autopano
  • smartblend
  • Paint Shop Pro X
  • PhotoShop CS2
  • Pano2QTVR Gui
  • autostitch
6 roundshots, 1 up and 3 down
Preetjes Molen, or the windmill "Deprez" at Heule (near Kortrijk) is an important landmark of the industrial history of the South of West-Flanders, Belgium. Because it was (and is) solely used for flax scutching, it is exceptional if not unique in th..
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Photo: Erik Van den Broeck
Feeding the Human Powerplant  
Roeselare, Belgium
Lat: 50° 55' 39" N Long: 3° 08' 30" E
Date/Time: September 22, 2005 - 11am (GMT+1)
Equipment: Nikon D100 - Sigma 8mm - Kaidan VR Head - PTMac - Photoshop CS2- CubicConvertor
Photo: Bruno Vandermarliere
Energy - Fuel - Street Lights  
Reet, Antwerp, Belgium
Lat: 51° 6' 3" N Long: 4° 23' 20" E
Date/Time: September 23, 2005 - 19:46 UTC (20:46 local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70 10.5mm 360Precision Head PTMac CubicConverter
Just a view of two fuel stations, road works and the amazing street lights here in Belgium... Have a look at the high fuel price (in euro/liter)... Still a lot of fuel is waste because of traffic jams, badly planned road works etc. Belgium is also the only cou..
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Photo: Koen Verschaeren
Sun and Wind Power  
Voroklini, Cyprus.
Lat: 34° 58' 0" N Long: 33° 39' 30" E
Date/Time: September 23rd 2005 10.00 BST
Equipment: Taken with a Kodak DX3900, digital camera, at the equivalent of 35 mm. Mounted on a tripod but without any pano-head. Stitched with Realviz Stitcher 3.1
The panorama opens looking out over the roof tops of Voroklini village where washing dries in the breeze and each home has solar panels for water heating. The dark wedge shapes are the panels, the white bulbous tanks carry the water. In the background the..
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Photo: Norma Boylan
Cement Plant and the Quarry  
Prachovice, Czech Republic
Lat: 49° 53' 21" N Long: 15° 38' 19" E
Date/Time: September 21, 2005 (11:39 local time)
Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 5400+FC-E9 on Agnos MRotatorB. SW - Panoweaver 3.1 Pro + Photoshop CS2
Over 50 years a man uses so much ENERGY to mine stones in this location in order to produce such a strategic material as cement. Cement is everywhere around us - it is in our houses, gardens , swimming pools, highways, runways, bridges, skyscrapers, boats and ..
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Photo: Martin Hrdlicka
Nuclear Waterfall  
Temelin (Southern Bohemia), Czech Republic
Lat: 49° 12' 0" N Long: 14° 24' 0" E
Date/Time: 9:17am, Thursday, September 22, 2005
Equipment: Canon Eos 300D Sigma 8mm fisheye 4 shots / 90 Degrees iso 100 bracketed +/- 2 stops Adobe RAW conversion PTGui / Enblend 3 images combined into a Tonemapped HDR
This image took lots of energy to make...!

The Power Plant

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Photo: Jeffrey S. Martin
Watermill  
Moesgaard, Aarhus, Denmark
Lat: 56° 5' 3.48" N Long: 10° 14' 8.16" E
Date/Time: 25/09/05 - 11:53
Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5 fisheye and 360precision.
This 153 year old watermill is located at Moesgaard outside Aarhus. The ENERGY created by the water passing the mill was used to grind corn and saw timber. The mill is still running and grinding and is open for visitors. Inside the mill you can see all the old..
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Photo: Finn Brose
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