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With regard to the project “On the Trails of the Glaciers” and its first expedition, hold in Karakorum in summer 2009, on October 15th 2010, a convention titled “1909-2009: One hundred years of glaciology and photography in Karakorum. Problems and results of a secular symbiosis”  will be held at the prestigious Italian Geographic Society. Among the speakers there will be prof. Claudio Smiraglia, prof. Kenneth Hewitt and Fabiano Ventura.

During the convention a selection of the prints of the photographic exhibition “On the Trails of the Glaciers. 1909-2009: one hundred years of climate change on Karakoram’s glaciers”, held last winter in Rome’s Sala S. Rita with great success, will be shown.

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Panoramic images are among the most expressive way of representation of a natural landscape, because embrace in a single overview an angular extension normally impossible to achieve with a single glance. Already one hundred years ago Vittorio Sella, among others, widely used overlapping images taken along the horizon to cover 360 degrees panoramas.

In those days, the junctions between the shots was hidden by intervening with Indian ink directly on the prints, which were then photographed again to get the full image on a single plate, a complex operation to address the shortcomings of the technology. Today, with the advent of the digital age, there are very sophisticated softwares which can analyze a sequence of individual shots and then seamlessly synthesize a single panoramic image, even correcting the actual distortion introduced by the lens used in the shots. The final precision is so high that it makes it quite impossible to distinguish the boundaries between the single images in the panoramic sequence. Read the rest of this entry »

The project “On the Trails of the Glaciers” has as its main target, through several expeditions, the production of modern photographic images reproducing the exact angles of shots taken early last century by the most famous exploring photographers; these new images will give scientists and investigators the basis for comparative observations on the state of the largest glaciers in the world, valuable indicators for assessing the current climate state, and especially its evolution over time. Read the rest of this entry »