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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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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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Another version of the harbour festival in Bristol. Explore them all as they all differ. 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 taken at a different time at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29552 or http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29665 360 degree shot from 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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This small giglepan was taken when the clouds were scudding around so I decided to do it quickly by zooming out and taking fewer shots. If we get a clear sky I'll go for a really high res 270 degree version. Here is one http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27418 |