A 360-degree panoramic view over Rotterdam, taken from the northern pylon of the Willemsbrug. Rottedam South and centre can been seen clearly. The Erasmusbrug is in the far back with the Oude Haven almost in the middle.
© 2008 www.rudgr.com.
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These images were taken for a report on the Belalp, Valais, Switzerland region for Wintersport Magazine #16 (Nederlandse Ski Vereniging). Hanging under a paraglider at a few hundred feet height in one of the most stunning regions of Switzerland is a treat unimaginable. If you love heights this is something really worth doing – Life’s good!
Many thanks go out to Airvolution and The Hamilton Lodgefor the amazing flight!
Client: Wintersport Magazine
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
The sun sets over Sydney downtown and Harbour Bridge, as seen from the Cremorne Point Ferry Wharf.
Image is a stitch from 3 hi-res Canon 1Dx photos and is almost 9000 pixels wide.
© 2012 www.rudgr.com
Rare photo of the Chicago skyline as seen from the top (425ft/130mt) of the famous Wrigley Building (yes, from the chewing gum), one of the oldest skyscrapers in town. Through a friend we got access to the top of this magnificent building right in the heart of the town. All the way on the top the city opened up to us on a perfectly blue day. What a treat! Photo is stitched from three 15mm fisheye images.
Three massive panoramas, 8000 pixels wide!
View from 25 meters high in the RTL Netherlands television crane at the back of the Radio538 Koninginnedag concert area. Koninginnedag (or Queensday) is basically the biggest yearly national party in the Netherlands and the Radio538 hosts a large free festival in Amsterdam which about 200.000 people attend during the course of the day.
The panorama is a stitch of several Canon 5DmkII images to make it one 25 megapixel super panorama. Watch out for more to come.
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Stage view with Markus Schulz on the decks (21mp).
Another view from the crance (20mp).
Three wallpapers from this years Trance event:
Laptop panoramic (16:9)
Widescreen (16:10)
About time to add some panoramic images from all over the world, a section that I will be updating more over the coming months.
Most of these have been stitched using the excellent Hugin stitching tool.
View over Nagasaki, Japan, from the Clover Garden elevator. 2004
View over Capetown from Signal Hill Road. 2005
Radio538 Queensday concert panorama. 2009
Granville Island Public Market, Vancouver. 2009
Penstraat Willemstad (Curaçao). 2010
Dutch Olympic Homecoming Haarlem. 2010
Mysteryland 2008, Netherlands.
School of Horse-eyed jacks in the Cayman Islands.
With so many 16:9 laptop hitting the markets, it’s time to add some wallpapers for that format as well. So please enjoy the first three (many more to come) panoramic, laptop, cinematographic wallpapers!
Kitzbuhler Alps ski region (Ski Welt), Austria.
View from the Hohe Salve (1829 meters) in Austria’s Ski Welt.
I was just working on some of my hi-res panorama’s that I somehow end up taking while on the road. Figured it would be nice to share them as well on the website. They have some nice stories behind them sometimes and they are so much fun when you’ve finally managed to stitch them together (although a free little program called “Hugin” helps a lot!)
Kitzbuheler Alps with Wilder Kaiser in the background
[See location in Google Earth]
While having lost my phone during the day at a photoshoot we figured out it must be lying somewhere in this region so after dinner we used the car to get as close as possible and trace back our route from the day. We were greeted by this incredible sunset in the Kitzbuhler region with the “Wilden Kaiser” mountains as a backdrop and this amazing farmhouse in the last rays os sunshine. I was happy to have brought my Canon G9 just to be sure and boy did I made a good deciscion: what a place to live and to capture on photo! Obviously we didn’t find my cellphone but a little note instead with lipstick writing that the finder had delivered it to the Tourist Office in town. Again, what a place to live!
Thorn, the White Village
[See location in Google Earth]
While on a short three day holiday trip in southern Holland (Limburg) in a most charming little place called Thorn, known for it’s white houses as the “White Village” we had a cosy hotelroom in the middle of the town and from our window we had a fantastic view over a backalley to the right and the spectacularly litmassive Church. With my old Canon G9 I made some vertical photo’s from our window in hope of being able to stitch them back together when home. The result is so typical for the place!
La Bouverie, Southern France
[See location in Google Earth]
With inlaws living in the SouthEast of France I’m very blessed. We love taking the smaller roads up there to go though small villages where it seems that time has stood still. One of our favorite viewpoints is this one, just before heading into La Bouverie. A minuscule village that boasts a great winery where we get our wine in boxes (or as South Africans call it so nicely “Dooswijn”). Again a panorama taken with my trusty G9, a great camera if it weren’t for the clumsy controls and horrible flash settings.
