Picture of the Week

as in the last two years nina and me went to the polyball in zurich. it was a blast, although we couldn’t dance that much this year ‘cause ninas back ached a bit after an hour of salsa :-)

the image below is one of my polyball-set on flickr . if you’d like to see some more images of us, then you should proceed over to the site of the fotostudio unartig . they made professional shots of all the attendants of the ball and supplied a photo-studio where you could make some selfportraits. the set of our self-portraits starts here and the professional shots start here .

this weekend we had the berner schwimmtage, a two-day swimming event, including the sprintnight , which was absolutely fabulous (see some more pictures here or here ). chantal cavin [1] swam a new world record for disabled swimmers, a lot of swimmers swam new meeting records and even more swam new personal records [2].

besides coaching my team i also found time to shoot a quick and dirty panorama of the indoor pool hirschengraben . it’s a shot i stitched from 12 images i took freehand on the gallery of the pool, stitched with hugin and converted to a qtvr using makecubic . so, if you click on the thumbnail below you should get a 1.8mb big .mov-file in which you can zoom and pan around [3]. if you prefer a flat image, then you should step over to flickr and look at the panorama as a .jpg.

i’ve been to zurich this wednesday (ninas birthday…) and was greeted with a wonderful morning when i went home. while walking over the dammsteg i couln’t resist to take some pictures. the link before is one of them. the one below shows a detail of the mill on the left of the panorama.

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michael sent me his pictures from the philippines. i really like the one he took of nina and me while at the tamarraw falls on our daytrip over the island. looks a bit like photoshopped, but i guarantee it’s real :-)

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i didn’t shoot any pictures this week, so i’m picking another one from our holidays on the philippines. although the nudibranch is not in focus i quite like the image below, mostly because of its vibrant colors. you can see some more images from our holidays in the pictures section or on flickr (which is better for the panoramas, ‘cause you can see them in a bigger size…).

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this afternoon we [1] had a security training organized by the slrg . since i needed to see if the underwater housing of my camera is still alright [2], i took my camera with me to shoot some pictures. the picture below shows our head coach doing a fine start.

the full set of all the pictures is online on flickr .

[1] most of the coaches of the swim team

[2] more on that later on.

this saturday i once again went to the ropetech-seilpark here in bern.

this time with the kids from the swim-team (i coach them twice a week). the full set of pictures can be seen here , but i thought the one below stands out of the crop. it shows seraina having loads of fun:

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this weekend i found some time to panoramify all my shots from european masters championships in stockholm (you might have seen it on flickr ).

through the help of the excellent ptx-mailing-list i found a tool called make cubic (direct download of the 259kb .sit-file here ) which is just a wee bit more than a terminal app to convert your equirectangular .jpgs into cubic QTVR-movies, so you can download the image of fatbursparken (that weird semi-round house) as a 2mb .mov-panorama if you click on the thumbnail below (be patient, it takes some time to load).

like i’ve said before, i’ve been to the ECMC in basel the weekend before the past one. i managed to shoot quite a bunch of good pics (which i’ll upload later on), but i particularly like that one, of our rookie chrigu taking a spiffy turn.

way to go!

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