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Copyright © 2011 Jeremy Maurer. Any use of this image without the permission of the photographer is in violation of the copyright.
I needed to test out my new Mini 3 Pro, and decided that these stormwater management ponds would be a nice place to try some panoramas.
From the city web page:
After rain or snowfall, the water left behind on roads, sidewalks, grass and pathways is called “stormwater.” This is ordinarily absorbed into the ground by plants and soil. However, pavement and other hard surfaces — such as driveways, sidewalks and roofs (especially in urban areas) — can interfere with this absorption. This can lead to water pooling or even flooding.
To help take care of this, stormwater management ponds exist throughout the city. They are human-made areas created to gather and retain rainfall and surface water runoff. These ponds are usually found in neighbourhoods where stormwater can easily be collected. The City of Vaughan manages more than 150 stormwater management ponds.
Stormwater management ponds can be either wet or dry and they are designed to maintain a permanent body of water within the pond area. A dry pond is designed to remain dry until a rain event occurs which may temporarily retain stormwater within the pond area. A wet pond holds water all the time and is designed to collect and store runoff from rain and melted snow. These wet ponds collect sediment so only clean water is released back into rivers and creeks.
Stormwater management pond surrounded by greenery in the summer
Stormwater ponds have at least one inlet that allows water to flow from the storm sewer system into the pond. Once the stormwater drains into the stormwater pond, any of the sand, dirt and other sediments that pollutants attach themselves to settle to the bottom of the pond. The pond's outlet releases water from the pond into a nearby creek system at a controlled rate. This process helps make the water cleaner when it leaves the pond and back into lakes and rivers. Without stormwater ponds, large amounts of water would enter a stream all at once, causing flooding and eroding soil from the stream banks. Everything that enters a street’s catch basin will eventually end up in a stormwater management pond before making its way back into local creeks, rivers and lakes. This water is not treated before entering the water cycle again; therefore, everyone must do their part to keep it clean.
This High Dynamic Range 360° aerial panorama was stitched from 78 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Colour Efex, then touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 18000 × 9000 (162.0 MP; 519.11 MB).
Location: Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
