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Panorama size: 292 megapixels (33940 x 8611 pixels)
Input images: 75 (15 columns by 5 rows) Field of view: 157.4 degrees wide by 39.9 degrees high (top=19.4, bottom=-20.5) Settings: All default settings Original image properties: Camera make: LEICA Camera model: D-LUX 3 |
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Adjusted to bring out the details in the darker areas of http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33950/. Completed in 1927, this Roman Catholic church has been recently restored for the 150th anniversary of its founding. I grew up in this town and this beautiful church is where I was baptized, confirmed and married. The stained glass windows, over 50 of them, portray scenes from the Old and New Testament of the Bible and are often used to illustrate the subjects of the sermons during Mass. The only lighting in this photo is from the sunlight coming through the windows. The German company, Franz Mayer of Munich was the designer and builder of the windows. |
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The 17th century wooden protestant church in Jawor, Poland.
"The Churches of Peace (Polish: Kościół Pokoju, German: Friedenskirche) in Jawor (Jauer) and Świdnica (Schweidnitz) in Silesia (Poland) were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three Evangelical churches, to be built outside the city walls, without steeples and church bells and made of wood, loam and straw. The construction time was limited to one year. Since 2001, the two remaining large ones are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Constrained by the physical and political conditions, three of the churches anyway became the biggest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe. With pioneering constructional and architectural solutions unknown ever before or since in wooden architecture, and surviving for over 300 years, they bear testimony to the quest for religious freedom and are a rare expression of Lutheran ideology in an idiom generally associated with the Roman Catholic Church in the Austrian Empire of the Habsburgs. The church in Jawor, under the invocation of the Holy Ghost, sized 43,5 m long, 14 m wide and 15,7 m high, seating 5,500, was constructed by Breslau (Wroclaw) architect Albrecht von Saebisch (1610–1688) and was finished in 1655 after a year. The 200 paintings inside by were done by Georg Flegel in 1671–1681. The Altar, by Martin Schneider, is of 1672, the original organ of J. Hoferichter from Legnica (Liegnitz) of 1664 was replaced 1855–1856 by Adolf Alexander Lummert. By that time, the town was already for about 100 years part of the Lutheran Kingdom of Prussia. Another 100 years later, in 1945, as a result of losing World War II by Nazi Germany they became part of Poland, following Potsdam Agreement." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_of_Peace) This is a spherical panorama in Mercator projection, made with a Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 15 mm f/2.8 (6 shots around, zenith & nadir). Each shot was bracketed +/-2 stops, developed in LR 2.2 and fused in EasyHDR Pro 1.60.2. Stitch with PTGui Pro 8.1 beta, postprocessed in PS CS2. The 360-degree version can be seen at http://panoramy.zbooy.pl/360/pan/jawor-kosciol-pokoju-wnetrze-1-hdr/e |
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Mostly rebuilt after World War II some sections of the original town remain. The town is a vibrant, friendly and modern city with a deep touch of history connecting it to the modern day. |
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This is the Second Reform Church on the College Ave Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Visit http://whereru.rutgers.edu to see more Gigapans from the whereRU project. |
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Muenster's Prinzipalmarkt, St Lambert’s Church,
St. Lamberti – this hall church built between 1375 and 1450 owes its renown to the gruesome history surrounding the three cages suspended from the steeple of the church. In the mid 16th century they housed the bodies of the three leaders of the Anabaptist sect. The church also houses a “Türmer” (tower keeper) who each night proclaims the time with a copper horn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster http://www.muenster.de/stadt/tourismus/en/old-town-area.html |
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Saint Joseph's Church is one of the Volga German churches in small towns near Hays, Kansas (http://www.volgagerman.net/Liebenthal_ks.htm). Shot from the same vantage point as a wider angle, but lower resolution view of Liebenthal (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2390). |
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Iglesia de Tlaquepaque, Jalico, en el occidente de Mexico. Al centro una estatua de Juan Pablo II.
Church in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico in West Mexico. In the center a statue dedicated to John Paul II. |
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Taken from a lonely, no longer used bridge in the grasslands between the dikes and the river Waal.
This image has been built up out of 12 pictures taken with 6x optical zoom. Since no tripod was used, some clipping occured on either above and below the picture. |
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This panorama shows some of the ruins of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Gerasa (Jerash). Parts of the modern city can also be seen from this point.
Related panorama: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23440 Jerash map here: http://www.atlastours.net/jordan/jerash_map.html مدينة جرش الرومانية Shots: 96 Date: 2 May 2009 17:00:00 Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 900Ti Tripod: SLIK Master Classic |