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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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Modern Water Wheel  
Freiburg, south west corner of Germany
Lat: 48° 0' 46.08" N Long: 7° 51' 13.32" E
Date/Time: September 22, 2005 - about 10:00 UTC (11:00 local time)
Equipment: EOS 600, Zenitar 16mm fisheye, shot on Fuji Reala at 1/10s f/5.6, Manfrotto 055CB tripod, self made pan tilt head. Stitched with PTGui, edited with Photoshop
Photo: Erik Krause
The Blacksmith  
Detmold, Germany
Lat: 51° 55' 02" N Long: 8° 52' 46" E
Date/Time: September 25, 2005 - 15:40 local time
Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm, Manfrotto Head and Tripod
I was thinking about the theme "Energy" and thought that my children sometimes have more energy than I wished... So I tried to get a nice picture of them haunting chicken in our garden.. but children and chicken were faster than me and my camera. Lat..
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Photo: Markus Krueger
Blast Furnace No. 5  
North Duisburg Landscape Park, Germany
Lat: 51° 28' 48.72" N Long: 6° 46' 46.56" E
Date/Time: September 23rd, 2005, 16:06 CEST
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 990, Fisheye FC-E8, Manfrotto QTVR Kit, PTMac, MakeCubic.
Blast Furnace No. 5 Blast Furnace No. 5 started running in 1973. It was in operation until 1985. The whole Meidenrich Ironworks was shut down in that year due to reduced steel quotas, set by the European Iron and Steel Community. The plant was preserved..
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Photo: Joakim Löber
Historic Hammer Mill (Outside)  
Bad Hindelang, Germany
Lat: 47° 29' 44.52" N Long: 10° 23' 15.36" E
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 - 8:45 UTC (10:45 local time)
Equipment: Camera: Konica Minolta Dynax 7D Lens: Sigma 3,5/18mm Mounting: Tripod with ball-head Software: Panotools, PTGui, Autopano, Enblend, Photoshop CS 2, Pano2QTVR Pictures: 36 pictures @ 6MP

Theme

The energy theme appears several times in the panorama you can see above:
  • The energy of flowing water is used to drive the water wheels of the hammer mill.
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Photo: Jürgen Matern
Historic Hammer Mill (Inside)  
Bad Hindelang, Germany
Lat: 47° 29' 44.52" N Long: 10° 23' 15.36" E
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 - 9:30 UTC (11:30 local time)
Equipment: Camera: Konica Minolta Dynax 7D Lens: Sigma 8mm Fisheye Mounting: Tripod with ball-head, and virtual tripod Software: Panotools, PTGui, Autopano, Smartblend, Gimp, Pano2QTVR Pictures: 8 pictures @ 45°, Zenith, Nadir

Theme

The energy theme appears several times in the panorama you can see above:
  • Energy in form of potential energy is used to transform a steel panel into a frying pan.
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Photo: Markus Matern
Top of a Wind Turbine  
Feldheim / Treuenbrietzen, Brandenburg, Germany
Lat: 51° 59' 48.55" N Long: 12° 49' 31.8" E
Date/Time: September 21, 2005 - 11:28 UTC (13:28 local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5mm, Sticher 4, Photoshop CS, ClickHere's CubicConverter
This Panorama was produced with the view through an open maintenance hatch in the engine pod of an Enercon E66 wind turbine at a height about 112 meter. The Enercon E66 18.70 has a hub height of approximately 110 meters and a rotor diameter of 35 meters with a..
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Photo: Joachim Nickel
High Voltage Transformer Station  
Duesseldorf, Germany
Lat: 51° 12' 21" N Long: 6° 50' 48" E
Date/Time: 2005-09-23 / 12:10 local time
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D70, 10.5mm fisheye, Manfrotto tripod 055PROB, Manfrotto pan head 303SPH... Software: Panotools, PTGui, Pano2QTVR...
In this panorama you can see the transmission plant Eller in Duesseldorf. This substation distributes a part of the electrical energie of the RWE-power grid to other substations within and around Duesseldorf. The shown location has a 220.000 Volt air-insulated..
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Photo: Oliver Rennen
Transmitter Hornisgrinde  
Hornisgrinde, Black Forest, Germany
Lat: 48° 36' 25" N Long: 8° 12' 9" E
Date/Time: September 24, 2005 - 16:45 UTC (17:45 local time)
Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 990, FC E-8 fisheye, zoomed in. Mounted on a selfmade VR-head. Software used for this panorama: NoiseRemove, Photoshop, Neat Image, PtGui with PanoTools, Enblend and Pano2QTVR.

Transmitter Hornisgrinde

On top of the Hornisgrinde is the Transmitter Hornisgrinde, a transmission facility for FM and TV in the Black Forest. There are two towers: a small steel framework tower (at the other end of the street), used for dir..
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Photo: Thomas Rist
High Energy - Oktoberfest 2005, Munich  
Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany
Lat: 48° 07' 55" N Long: 11° 32' 52" E
Date/Time: 05/09/23 07.30pm
Equipment: Nikon D-SLR, Nikkor 2.8/8mm, Manfrotto Monopod, Photoshop, PTMac, Cubic Converter
High Energy - One of some fabulous hellrides of Oktoberfest, - but definitely not my cup of tea and or after the pleasure of some "mass" (mugs) of Oktoberfestbeer...
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Photo: Mario W. Schild
Solar Energy Houses  
Freiburg, Germany
Lat: 47° 58' 30" N Long: 07° 49' 44" E
Date/Time: September 23, 10:15 local time
Equipment: Pentax IST Ds, Pentax 14mm, Kaidan Kiwi-L, Quicktime VR Authoring Tool
The "Solarsiedlung" in Freiburg is a suburban colony which consists of 58 houses and and one living and office block, the "Sonnenschiff". These houses are called Plus-Energy-Houses, since they produce more energy than they consume. Glass fr..
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Photo: Reinhard Schmolze
Steam Turbine  
Ulm, Germany
Lat: 48° 24' 17" N Long: 9° 57' 45" E
Date/Time: September, 25, 2005
Equipment: Canon 300D; Sigma 8mm
This is a steam turbine from the year 1945. It is located in a long-distance heating power station in our city. The turbine carries 8 MW out and runs after 270.000 operation hours still perfectly...
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Photo: Fritz Seyffert
Waste Combustion Power Plant  
Stuttgart Muenster, Germany
Lat: 48° 49' 00" N Long: 09° 13' 15" E
Date/Time: October, 6th 2005 - 17:15 UTC (19:15 local time)
Equipment: Canon EOS 10 D, Tokina 12-24 at 12 mm, Manfrotto 303, PanoramaStudio, Photoshop
As long as we will be produce garbage, I think it is better to burn it, recycle the energy and clean the off gas. Like this it is done in Stuttgart with quite a modern power plant. A railway bridge crosses the site from where one has a good overview. Only it s..
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Photo: Josh von Staudach
Water Power Station  
Dellmensingen, Germany
Lat: 48° 18' 02.22" N Long: 9° 56' 51.24" E
Date/Time: September 24th, 2005, 11.15am
Equipment: Canon EOS 350D / Sigma 8mm
The image shows a generator room of a small water power station situated near the river "Rot". Two generators with a total power of 110 kWh produce electricity. The power station was constructed 1905 and has been modernized 1975. Das Bild zeigt den G..
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Photo: Christian Stehle
Steam Engine from 1856 with 135 hp  
Berlin, Germany
Lat: 52° 29' 52.49" N Long: 13° 22' 33.79" E
Date/Time: 23rd september 2005, 08:49 UTC
Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm, Manfrotto 303 SPH; RAW, Photoshop CS, Photomatix Pro, PTGUI, CubicConverter/CubicConnector
While thinking about "energy" I first planned to shoot a power plant, a wind park or one of the numerous solar energy projects here around. But then I remembered those steam engines. Since that very special day of my childhood, when my father on Chri..
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Photo: Michael Stoss
Gas Station  
Near the center of Essen, NRW, Germany
Lat: 51° 27' 33" N Long: 6° 59' 47" E
Date/Time: September 22, 2005 - 17:53 UTC (19:53 local time)
Equipment: D20 with 8mm Sigma Multiexposure HDR Nodalpointadapter NA-IV
As I heard for the first time about the theme "Energy", I thought that a huge powerplant or a transformer station would be fine. But in the meantime some things happened. Due to the hurricandesaster (Katrina) in New Orleans even here in Germany the e..
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Photo: Tom! Striewisch
Renewable Energy  
About 10 Km southwest of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Lat: 54° 44' 28" N Long: 9° 16' 52" E
Date/Time: September 25th, 4:30 pm
Equipment: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 8mm
In 2004 33,4% of electricity consumption in Schleswig-Holstein, which amounts to 2174 MW (megawatts), was produced by wind power. All renewable sources together produced about 45% of the entire electricity consumption in Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1990 the wind..
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Photo: Alexander Thomsen
Historical Windmill  
Wengelsdorf, Saxonia-Anhalt, Germany
Lat: 51° 16' 39.33" N Long: 12° 2' 13.29" E
Date/Time: Sept. 25, 2005, 4:05 pm
Equipment: Canon EOS 300D with Peleng 8mm Fisheye, 8 images, Homemade panorama head Software used: Hugin/Panotools, Enblend, PS, PanoCube
This historical windmill is now the home of a family...
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Photo: Klaus Voigt
Brown Coal Power Plant  
Bergheim-Niederaußem, Germany
Lat: 50° 59' 30" N Long: 6° 40' 21" E
Date/Time: September, 23rd, 2005, 18:41 MESZ
Equipment: Nikon D70s, old Fisheye Sigma 16 mm, 1/100 sec. f8, Monopod, NA-IV panohead
Brown coal power plants are heat systems which work with steam and turbines: The hotter the steam comes into the turbine and the more cold it leaves, the more energy output you have. In Bergheim-Niederaussem, near Cologne, this technology was perfected: burned..
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Photo: Chris Witzani
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