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Rovinj was already a settlement of Illyrian tribes before being captured by the Romans, who called it Arupiunum or Mons Rubineus, and later Ruginium and Ruvinium. Built on an island close to the coast, it was connected with the mainland in 1763 by filling in the channel.
It became part of the Byzantine empire, then in the sixth century part of the Exarchate of Ravenna and in 788 part of the Frankish empire. Then it came under the rule of different feudal lords during several centuries. From 1209 it was ruled by the Aquilean patriarch. It was from 1283 to 1797 one of the most important towns of Istria under the Republic of Venice. The city was fortified by two rows of walls with three town gates. The remaining town walls date from this period. Close to the pier one can find the old town gate Balbi's Arch, dating from 1680, and a late-Renaissance clock tower. The city got its statutes in 1531. After the fall of Venice and the Napoleonic parenthesis, Rovinj was part of the Austrian Empire until World War I. Then it belonged to Italy from 1918 to 1947, when it was ceded to SR Croatia within SFR Yugoslavia. During that period much of the Italian inhabitants left the city. 350 images taken with Olympus E-620 with the Zuiko lens 140-600, at focal length of 600 mm. A spherical image from the same place can be found here: http://www.360cities.net/image/istria-aci-marina-rovinj |
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View of Sydney Harbor from the Bridge Pylon lookout (high res version)
64 Images in 3 rows Nikon D200 with Sigma DG 28-70 mm lens @ 70 mm. ISO250 f/7.1 1/400 sec |
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From the tower at the Chanel Islands National Park. This was taken on Memorial Day 2009 as part of a set from the tower. Lots of activity on the water resulted in lots of things getting cut off. Taken using Gigapan Epic 100 and Canon S5 IS |
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This 1.3Gpx image is a composite of 220 10Mpx 8-second exposures with a 200mm lens at f/8 and ISO 200. All the gory details of its creation are detailed here:
http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/11/how-to-create-gigapixel-images |
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This is my first panorama using the GigaPan. This piece consists of 96 photos. |
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This gigapan was taken from the top of Mount Victoria, a very popular park and lookout |
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Memorial Day Weekend, 2009 at Ventura Harbor, California. This was done using the Gigapan Epic 100 and a Canon S5 IS, this is 750 images at 12x zoom. Each shot was 80 ISO, with an aperature of 4.5. This took almost 90 minutes to shoot. Each shot was repeated three times using the Epic 100 multishot function. The total 2,250 8mp shots was done with one memory card and one set of batteries for each the camera and Gigapan! |
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Boston Waterfront, taken from near Logan Airport |
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San Diego, CA skyline viewed from Harbor Island (not a real island) near the airport. The San Diego / Coronado bridge joins the city to Coronado Island (a peninsula, also not an island) at right to the west. |
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Squeteague Harbor, a.k.a. Megansett Harbor, is in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Lat/Long coordinates: 41.657451,-70.614763
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