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Re: stories, please
Robert C. Fisher 2004-Sep-24 22:40:00
Hi Markus
I liked <ambg065.jpg> since you had to look hard to find the bridge. I
agree I tend to go through the same thoughts of boy is this boring but
your photos look interesting to me. I live in LA and this can get
really boring, freeways and cars oh my! I always try to find something
interesting in the mundane, sometimes success sometimes failure. Here
trying to find a bridge that hasn't been shot in countless photos, ads,
and movies is difficult at times.
I also think #66 has potential but #65 is my fav.
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Markus Altendorff wrote:
> Fulvio Senore wrote:
>
>> It's really curious like a casual family trip has led me to
>> that bridge just in the right moment... and now I have all
>> that viaduct panos and don't know what to do with them :-)
>
> Well, you could make some web page listing them and add that URL
> to the "special section" of the WWP submit form? ;-)
>
> Since we're sharing stories, here's mine:
>
> It started on Saturday, when i drove to our local airfield with
> the plan to take an half-hour flight around our district to shoot
> some aerial photos which i could use as "map replacement" for my
> web page. Well, all flight tours for that day were already
> booked, so on to the nearby town's airfield - same there... in
> retrospect, i guess this was the last summer-like day for the
> year. So i had the camera, two sets of charged batteries and an
> afternoon to spend...
> The first "bridge" i shot was more of a tunnel, made from
> corrugated sheet iron, obviously with the architect thinking
> "let's make a tube and punch it through the ground right below
> the street". It has an unusal look when unwrapped:
> http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/jpegXL/ambg059.jpg
> However, i'm not sure if this qualifies as a "bridge".
>
> (Tech note: all these panoramas will open facing 180 degrees from
> the image center - not sure why MakeCubic has this odd setting of
> starting at the seam of an equirectangular image, and i've not
> written any html for it yet)
>
> The next target was at the former Amberg castle, it's just a
> plain road bridge, but with an additional pedestrian's bridge
> (right word?) hanging from it:
> http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/jpegXL/ambg063.jpg
> It's pulled up on weekends, because then there are boats with
> tourists going up and down the river...
> This felt so "postcardy" and the bridge itself takes a back seat
> in the overall image that i'm not considering this one for the
> WWP either.
>
> And that was the Saturday. From then on, the weather went
> downhill, so i did put any plans hold, hoping for better weather
> before the 22nd. Of course, the weather did NOT improve.
>
> On the 22nd, while driving to work around 8 a.m., i decided to
> take the chance and shoot a bridge that's so unspectacular and
> meaningless that you can't help but feel some pity ;-) so it's my
> current WWP candidate:
> http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/jpegXL/ambg065.jpg
> Not only is it barred, but also across a brook where you've got
> to look hard for any water...
>
> After work, i paid a visit to a larger bridge (three shots, not
> stitched yet). The wind there was strong and quite chilling (OK,
> so i'm a bit of a wuss ;-), but the outlook was pretty nice, and
> had a bridge below the bridge in it.
> Finished the tour with a panorama right below a highway bridge,
> and finally an old wood bridge at Amberg (one shot near the
> bridge, one with bracketed exposure on the bridge, almost at the
> equinox time).
> http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/jpegXL/ambg066.jpg
>
> It's at the times of worldwide panorama events that i notice how
> incredibly boring my corner of the world really is...
>
> Looking forward to seeing the other WWP entries:
> Markus
> http://www.panoramas.de/
Cheers
Robert C. Fisher
QTVR Photography/Cinematography
www.rcfisher.com