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Photo series from a day in Florence, Italy.
Starting with arrival by train, the images capture various aspects of the city: entrances, local merchandise, architectural details, and culinary impressions. The selection reflects a spontaneous walk through urban spaces, offering a straightforward visual impression of Florence.

Arrival by Train:

Entrance:

Merchandise is all about leather in this town:

Uncropped equirectangular projections of the town:

(Mercator projection, perfectly vertical aligned)

(Mercator projection, 7° pitch)

(Mercator projection, perfectly vertical aligned)

(Mercator projection, 7° pitch)

The Map:

5-star Tiramisu cake:

More Panoramic Scenes from Florence:

Ponte Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
Kathedrale Santa Maria del Fiore
Ponte Vecchio over the Arno river
Michelangelo's David

Using a fisheye lens for street pictures as a universal wide angle lens lets you choose how the projection should look like.

Index strip created with cPicture.

Rectangular projection

Equirectangular projection

Using a wide angle lens, you need to step much further to the back to get this field of view. With the fisheye, you stand right at the first step line.

A dragonfly made it safely to our garden, fresh from its latest airshow performance.

Panasonic DMC-GM1 1/160s f/5,6 ISO 200/24° f=32mm/64mm

Panasonic DMC-GM1 1/160s f/6,3 ISO 200/24° f=32mm/64mm

Captains view

Panasonic DMC-GM1 1/160s f/6,3 ISO 200/24° f=32mm/64mm

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Nikon Z30 1/125s f/6,3 ISO 900 16-50mm f/3,5-6,3 VR f=50mm/75mm

Nikon Z30 1/50s f/6,3 ISO 400/27° 105mm f/2,8 VR

Nikon Z30 1/60s f/7,1 ISO 400/27° 105mm f/2,8 VR

Nikon Z30 1/60s f/7,1 ISO 400/27° 105mm f/2,8 VR

Nikon Z30 1/60s f/7,1 ISO 400/27° 105mm f/2,8 VR

Nikon Z30 1/80s f/10 ISO 1250 105mm f/2,8 VR

Next to Bellevue Square was the annual Snowflake Lane parade.
With no fisheye but a normal focal length lens, taking the pictures were challenging with the close distance to the parade, but turned out not too bad.