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09-24-2019, 02:16 PM - 1 Like   #1966
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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
My mind juxtaposed the wild horses (beautiful animals) with the line of old fighter planes a few posts above. How transportation has changed.
Interesting thought and indeed true! What is difficult for me to grasp is that it was only ~40 years between the time when everyone had horses (and little to no automobiles) and the era of those propeller-driven trainers. My great grandmother (born in 1899) used to talk about the rapid transition between her childhood life on a farm (no indoor plumbing, no electricity, a horse-drawn wagon, only lighter-than-air as an option for flight) and her 20s (indoor plumbing, electric lights, driving a Model T, the first widespread use of heavier-than-air aircraft). What a contrast.

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QuoteOriginally posted by photocles Quote
Interesting thought and indeed true! What is difficult for me to grasp is that it was only ~40 years between the time when everyone had horses (and little to no automobiles) and the era of those propeller-driven trainers. My great grandmother (born in 1899) used to talk about the rapid transition between her childhood life on a farm (no indoor plumbing, no electricity, a horse-drawn wagon, only lighter-than-air as an option for flight) and her 20s (indoor plumbing, electric lights, driving a Model T, the first widespread use of heavier-than-air aircraft). What a contrast.
A similar thought struck me visiting an aviation museum earlier in the year with a display showing a Wright brothers type airplane alongside a jet engine,barely separated by 40 years!
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Sunset over Corner Inlet and Wilson's Promontory, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. K-3 + FA 77 Ltd, 20 images stitched in Microsoft ICE. (X-posted from sunsets thread)
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From the top of the Skyline Queenstown.


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From the top of the Skyline Queenstown.


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Superb image!
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Superb image!
+1. What gear did you use Rob?
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Superb image!
Thank you! I think my heart rate has returned to normal about now. Standing on the edge of a 450 metres drop is not something my subconscious likes.


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+1. What gear did you use Rob?
Thanks! K3 and HD DA 16-85, manually panned (no tripod) and stitched with ICE. Oops, I need to edit the list of gear in my signature...

Dunno if it's cheating to put a Theta photo here?

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Dunno if it's cheating to put a Theta photo here?
I, for one, am certainly not gonna complain to anyone about it!
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QuoteOriginally posted by photocles Quote
I, for one, am certainly not gonna complain to anyone about it!
Neither will I.

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Thank you! I think my heart rate has returned to normal about now. Standing on the edge of a 450 metres drop is not something my subconscious likes.
Oh, I see what you mean. That Theta "photo" was very realistic and I would have thought twice about being there. It made your pano image about 1000% better. Thanks for sharing both.
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QuoteOriginally posted by photocles Quote
I, for one, am certainly not gonna complain to anyone about it!
Thanks! Photos don't get much more panoramic than 360 degrees.

QuoteOriginally posted by rayallen Quote
Neither will I.
Cool!


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Oh, I see what you mean. That Theta "photo" was very realistic and I would have thought twice about being there. It made your pano image about 1000% better. Thanks for sharing both.
Thanks! I just wanted to put the challenge in context. I have respect for mountain climbers but my sense of self preservation seems to be unusually strong.

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Interesting thought and indeed true! What is difficult for me to grasp is that it was only ~40 years between the time when everyone had horses (and little to no automobiles) and the era of those propeller-driven trainers. My great grandmother (born in 1899) used to talk about the rapid transition between her childhood life on a farm (no indoor plumbing, no electricity, a horse-drawn wagon, only lighter-than-air as an option for flight) and her 20s (indoor plumbing, electric lights, driving a Model T, the first widespread use of heavier-than-air aircraft). What a contrast.
My grandfather was also born in 1899 in Derbyshire not far from the Rolls Royce factory where they now make jet engines, but at the time of steam trains and steam ships. He worked as a fitter and turner on the railways as well as maintaining some of the first aircraft at the end of WW1. He drove a horse and cart in Sydney to deliver milk. Yet by the time he passed away he lived to see man on the moon, and the first space shuttle flight. As you say, what a contrast!
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Another panorama from Queenstown, this time at water level rather than mountain top.


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Ohio Theatre in Columbus
Wow, where's the Phantom?
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