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The National Park Desierto de los Leones was the fitst National Park decreed in Mexico (1917), but well before that was home of monks, who built the Monastery which garden is shown in this picture.
The panoramic is composed of 752 pictures taken by a Canon 50D and 70-200 mm zoom (at 200) on a Automate panoramic robot. It took me 2 hours to complet the shots, partly because of the Automate lost communication with the remote often, when I stopped the pano to repeat a skipped picture (because of unability to focus in the set time or because of a person crossing), causing a 5 or so minute delay every time I had to reset the PDA that acts as a remote control, and partly because I had to wait for people to move before continuing with the pictures, but despite that there are some incomplete persons and a "twin". The PSD file is 4.5 gigabites, but when converted to 72 dpi JPG became less than 1 GB. A drawback of using a SLR is that the depth of field is much reduced as compared to the small sensor of a point and shoot. Because of that there are pictures of in focus objects in the foreground and a halo of blurr in the background, surrounded by sharp areas, which give the impression of badly pasted images. This problem is particularly bad in a picture like this one, where there are many objects at different distances, both close and far. Because of the long time it took to complete the pictures on a partly cloudy day there were many changes in lighting conditions, which is particularly noticeable in the trunk of the trees in the middle of the image. The parameters I used were an overlap of 50% horizontally and 30% vertically. The time to half-press the shutter of 1 sec; time to hold the shutter open 1 sec; time to save image to card 1 sec; delay to move shutter after shutter press 0.5 sec; settleing time before firing shutter 1 sec. I need to check how long to extend the half-press time, in order to reduce the number of skipped pictures because of the camera failing to focus, which was the most recurrent problem during the pano. |
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Tibidabo Monastery at Tibidabo mountain. Amusement park.
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Guartse Tibetan buddhist monastery, overlooking Chukoo township in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province, China. This monastery was recently restored with funding from the Dutch embassy in China, and labour supplied by entire village. |
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Tibidabo Monastery. Barcelona, Spain.
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Tibidabo Monastery. Barcelona, Spain.
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The Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov is one of the oldest monasteries of the Premonstratensian Order in the world. It has been a working monastery practically ever since it was founded in 1143. Fire, the Hussite Wars, religious wars, and the Communists all failed to shut down this institution. Even when the members of the monastery were unable to live within its walls, they gathered wherever they could and nurtured the spirit of their House until they were able to return to the monastery complex.
The Premonstratensians are an order of canons regular founded in 1120 by St Norbert. They are an integral part of the Roman Catholic Church, not only as an organizational, legal, and independent unit, but also, and especially, they are an integral spiritual element of the Church. Ever since their establishment, a move seen as an attempt to reform canonical and clerical life, the Premonstratensians have tried to live in the spirit of their order's five ends: the singing of the Divine Office, the spirit of habitual penance, a special devotion to the Holy Eucharist, a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and zeal for the salvation of souls. Strahov Abbey and its members also pursue this way of life. The solemn liturgy which takes place at the Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady every day, a profound experience of devotion to the Holy Eucharist and to the Blessed Virgin connected with the formation of our own guilt, forms the basis for a life of saving souls, i.e. spreading the Gospel. The Strahov Premonstratensians carry out their work in the parishes entrusted to the abbey and in the parishes of various dioceses in Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. The source and centre of the life of the Strahov Premonstratensians is the convent at Strahov, where novices and clerics are brought up and trained, and where the abbot resides along with other representants of the canonry. The current abbot, the seventieth so far, is Michael Josef Pojezdný. He is assisted in the direction of the monastery by a prior, subprior, and provisor. The instruction and upbringing of the younger generation is in the competence of the master of novices and the master of clerics. Currently, Strahov Abbey numbers 80 members. Besides its spiritual services and abbey life, Strahov Abbey also plays a role in the cultural life of society. The famous Strahov Library and the reopened Strahov Picture Gallery are cultural institutions proving to the world that the Strahov Premonstratensians have always cared for the development of culture and education. |
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Tibidabo Monastery Barcelona, Catalunya SAIN.
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