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Re: approaching limits!
Don Bain 2011-Mar-29 14:07:00
Viktor - nice work, and a good story.
I have only had time for a quick look at the new event as it takes shape. There are, as always, some brilliant interpretations of the theme, and many striking panoramas.
Everyone - please share your "limits" stories with the group.
Don
On Mar 29, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Viktor Balogh wrote:
> 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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