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Re: approaching limits!
Bostjan Burger 2011-Mar-27 07:22:00
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
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From: Don Bain <#removed#>
To: #removed#
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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