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Re: approaching limits!
Viktor Balogh 2011-Mar-29 12:47:00
Hello All,
We have reached the "limits" of the shooting period. I want to share my
panorama with all of you who have not already managed to get the
stitching done. You have some 18 hours to edit so hurry up!
About my contribution: I almost missed the event again because the lack
of ideas, but finally the earth-hour saved me this equinox:
<http://vrphoto.hu/2011/03/27/earth-hour-2011/>
Regards,
Viktor
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT), Bostjan Burger wrote:
> I had a problem what to document for the »Limits« event. As I live
> in a tiny
> country the west, south, east or north most wouldn't be a challenge.
> As we have
> one of the deepest caves of the world (?ehi 2) the bottom of that
> cave would be
> a challenge but impossible at the moment. My project of documenting
> the methane
> - coalmine was just published, there I was all the time with the
> limits of the
> photography? but it was out of the time frame and I had already
> published one
> location in the Best of 2010. The next idea was to document the
> Noordungs home
> place. Herman Poto?nik ? Noordung was the pioneer of the space
> orbital stations:
> »Poto?nik's "Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraumswas" was the
> first book to
> devote most of its pages to space stations. In the book he proposed
> the
> inhabitable wheel design. This strongly influenced the work of
> technicians and
> researchers, as well as of science fiction authors. It inspired many
> space
> station designs during the 1950s, even those appearing in 2001: A
> Space Odyssey
> and in a Russian movie Doroga k zvezdam.?
>
> I was very enthusiastic with Herman Poto?nik but unfortunately the
> housekeeper
> of the memorial room didn?t have time for my idea as he ?was very
> busy?.
> What now? I had a lack of the ideas but then I realized that I found
> the limits
> within my regular documentary work. Not so worldwide famous as
> Noordung but
> important to display the Slovenian mentality. In the middle of the
> terror of the
> WW2 thousands of women dared to gather on the main street of
> Ljubljana and
> demonstrate against the fascism and Nazism. In the same time painter
> Tone Kralj
> went over the limits of the threat and the terror and had painted
> the
> church of
> St. Martin in Slivje with the symbols against the fascism and
> Nazism.
> The
> symbols are well hidden but on the other side obvious when looking
> at
> the
> frescoes and the sculptures. My participation seems as ordinary
> church pano but
> it is with the ?strong? background story.
>
> Bo?tjan
>
> ________________________________
> From: Don Bain
> To: #removed# [2]
> Sent: Sat, March 26, 2011 8:07:11 PM
> Subject: approaching limits!
>
> Just a reminder that this weekend is the last time to shoot for the
> event
> "Limits".
>
> I was getting a bit anxious myself - with a long series of storms
> moving through
> California it just had not been pleasant conditions for pano
> shooting. And
> despite having thrown out a lot of suggestions for how to handle
> this
> theme, I
> did not have a good solid idea for my own.
>
> But Thursday night, reading local weather news, it occurred to me
> that the
> state's rivers and reservoirs were reaching the limits of their
> capacity and
> starting to overflow.
>
> So I set off yesterday morning for Sacramento with the magic number
> 27.5 on my
> mind. That is the river level (measured at the I Street Bridge in
> Sacramento) at
> which they open the floodgates and divert the Sacramento River into
> the Yolo
> Bypass. This is done to relieve stress on the delta levees as well
> as
> to protect
> urban areas from flooding.
>
> As I approached "river city" on Interstate 80 it was suddenly
> obvious
> that the
> gates were already open - just before reaching the city there was
> three miles of
> open water, brown and roiled, where normally there would be wildlife
> ponds and
> rice fields.
>
> But there was plenty of water still in the Sacramento River. The
> riverfront
> trail was partly underwater, and the trees that normally stand at
> the
> water's
> edge were fifty feet off-shore. It was moving fast and carrying a
> lot
> of debris.
>
> I was fortunate because there was a break in the storm and I had
> just
> enough
> sunshine to grab a few panos of the high water next to Old Town
> Sacramento.
>
> Happy shooting!
> Don
>
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