
1000m Above the City
Schauinsland, Freiburg, Southwest corner of Germany
June 18 and 21, 2008 both 21:00 local time
© 2008 Erik Krause, All Rights Reserved.
Many people suffer from vertigo if they are in elevated places. Some even get vertigo from tilting down a spherical panorama taken high above the ground, like f.e. Welcome to Verdon
Vertigo, that is if you are unsure which way is up and which down. Well, since there was no high cliff at hand around solstice I tried to simulate the feeling. Perhaps you get some vertigo if you tilt the panorama up or down...
You can find the source panoramas on http://pano.erik-krause.de/sonnwend
Lat: 47° 54' 43.11" N
Long: 7° 53' 54.93" E
Elevation: 1302
Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.








Saturday was much better, hence I went up once more. Featureless blue sky this time. Previously I played with vertically compressed and mirrored panoramas effectively giving two "little planet" versions at zenith and nadir. I placed the wednesday "little planet" in the sky region of the second panorama and let enblend do a seamless blending.
There was a second event I had to visit this evening: the solstice fire at the Freiburg vivarium Mundenhof. A huge pile of wood collected the whole year was burnt there and people where running and dancing around. An elevating experience as well and a very difficult subject to shoot due to ever changing brightness of the flames...