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Barcelona's Montjuïc is a broad shallow hill with a relatively flat top overlooking the harbour, to the southeast of the city centre. The eastern side of the hill is almost a sheer cliff, giving it a commanding view over the city's harbour immediately below. The top of the hill (a height of 173 metres) was the site of several fortifications, the latest of which (the Castell de Montjuïc) remains today.
The Port of Barcelona has a 2000-year history and a great contemporary commercial importance. It is Europe's ninth largest container port, with a trade volume of 2.3 million TEU's in 2006. The port is managed by the Port Authority of Barcelona. Its 7.86 km2 (3 sq mi) are divided into three zones: Port Vell (the Old Port), the commercial port and the logistics port (Barcelona Free Port). The port is undergoing an enlargement that will double its size thanks to diverting the mouth of the Llobregat river 2 km (1¼ mi) to the south. The Port Vell (old port) area also houses the Maremagnum (a commercial mall), a multiplex cinema, the IMAX Port Vell and an aquarium. |
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A view of Downtown Hong Kong from the much-visited Peak in Central District. Taken with a D700 on a tripod mount. |
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This large gigglepan is what I call a superpan with over 800 images making it up. It's well worth exploring. This is called "the floating harbour" because the water is held in by lock gates. Otherwise the boats would all end up resting on the mud at low tide twice each day. The SS Great Britain, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the first ever iron hulled, screw propellor driven liner and was the largest in the world when it was built. it was brought back to the dock in which it was built to be restored in the 1970s and is now an award winning museum. Moored next to it is a replica of The Matthew: the little wooden ship in which John Cabot sailed from Bristol in 1495 to discover the North American mainland (Newfoundland). This replica, also built in Bristol, retraced that journey on the 500th anniversary of the original voyage in 1995. See also http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27492 and see this viewpoint on Bristol Harbour Festival at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29552 |
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A shot on an overcast day of Bristol floating harbour, looking down on The SS Great Britain (The first iron hulled, screw propellor driven liner) designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Next to it is the Matthew, a replica of the ship in which John Cabot sailed on his discovery of North America in 1497. The harbour is called the "floating harbour" because the river here is tidal and the water is held in by locks. I forgot to set this to save as a tiff so that I could make adjustments and it took so long to stitch that it will have to wait. This shot is 600 superfine, large JPEGs and took 15 hours to stitch. I seem to be getting better and working at the lowest iso rating with no image stabilisation has greatly improved the definition. A shot twice as wide, taking in much more of the harbour, is in the offing when we get the next sunny day!! Here is the first attempt http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27418 |
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Walking east from Poole Quay past the marina, this boulder field is looking toward Baiter Park.
Many periwinkles and a mixture of alga to be seen. Not bad for a first attempt at Gigapan on a cloudy and gusty day! |
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This 1.3Gpx image is a composite of 220 10Mpx 8-second exposures with a 200mm lens at f/8 and ISO 200. All the gory details of its creation are detailed here:
http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/11/how-to-create-gigapixel-images |
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The harbour festival in Bristol. for a reciprocal view see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27418 and Kilgore's shot of the same harbour at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7449 and another version of this at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29604. One week later is the balloon festival see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30205 View from the Wills tower is at http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/33892/
90 shots at 150mm with a Canon SX1 IS camera on manual settings. Polarizing filter to help with the water. |
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View from our hotel room at the Regent Hotel Bal Harbour, Miami Beach, FL. Unfortunately it was a very rainy and windy day when I took this pano and somehow I forgot to re-do it on one of the nicer days after that. Oh well. You are looking out on Haulover Park, Haulover Beach. In the distance you see the city of Sunny Isles and the tall buildings are the new Trump tower residences. Get your own place on the beach starting at $2 million. Yikes. In this economy. Good luck. I actually took a wider pano of this scene but am missing some frames somewhere. Will have to dissect this to figure out what happened. Canon SX110 is and Gigapan Epic. |
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Panorama of Coffs Harbour Jetty Beach and Jetty. The Marina with Mutton Bird Island.
The Beach (at low tide), was used as a landing strip for Avro 504 and Bristol Bi-Planes in the 1920's. There seem to be a few faults with the stitching on the horizon of the panorama. Will try to figure out how to correct this in the future....Could it possibly be the software.....? |