Flow (360° 720nm IR)

Took this on the first 'nice' day after the prolonged and severe rain falls in August this summer (which unfortunately caused plenty of destruction as well as lamentation; it doesn't matter so much what kind of weather it is, there is a good chance that it will be extreme nowadays; thanks climate change!), by a stream obviously not too far away from where I live.

 

Even though there is not much of a downgrade or huge amounts of water, there are a couple of junctions with barriers in order to feed (presumeably small Francis or Pelton) turbines to generate some electricity, so there are short sections where there is usually less volume and flow until the 'used' water joins the original river bed again. But with the heavy rainfalls, they had to open the flood gates to some degree to keep the excess water going, which is what's happening here. It doesn't overly look like that due to the 'ultra wide' angle of view, but the water was just raging out there, with such a velocity, making some proper noise with hell of a drag that I thought my gear is going to fly off any second. But I was out of the splash / spray / mist zone of course.

 

 

Technically this is 360° 42 image mercator projection, trimmed to 27199 x 15266px, ~415,2MP.

It was an easy stitch on principle, due to lots of 'content', but there were just a trillion of tiny issues to fix, not only in the water as one might expect, and.. well, I felt compelled to fix them.

Also thought this is going to be part one of a 'two part series', but I'm not so sure anymore, not very enthusiastic about part two..

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 1/4sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done