I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated by Prague in the Czech Republic. Because it is the epitome of classic, elegant Europe, it has always been the #1 place for me to visit in Europe. After my tour of Germany, I spent 4 days in Prague and soaked in its rich culture, architecture and history – from the Romanesque period, flourishing by the Gothic and Renaissance eras and most of all, it was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

Here are the gigapixel images of Prague:

Being the exclusive distributor of Clauss Image and Data Technology GmbH in North America, I was invited to a reseller’s meeting planned for the last week of March at the company headquarters in Zwönitz, Germany.

Morning in Zwönitz, Germany

It was a very very long trip from Vancouver to Zwönitz: a 10-hr flight to Frankfurt with a 1-hr connecting flight to Dresden, and finally a 2-hr train ride from Dresden to Zwönitz, a small remote town in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

It was great to finally meet the people behind the company and put a face behind the respective names and email addresses. Susanne Clauss, Product Market Manager, was our main host. We had orientations on the whole product line: turntables, panoramic heads and surveying technologies. We toured the factory and saw the attention to detail, the high quality and precision involved in the manufacturing process of each Rodeon device (authentic German-engineering). Clauss does not make any compromise in the quality of their products, that is, each part is carefully manufactured with extreme precision using aluminum or steel materials (no plastic parts), and each component is manually tested and calibrated.

 

After the 3-day meeting, Susanne and Michelle (Reuther) took us on a day tour to nearby Dresden.

From Dresden, I headed to Berlin by train to spend 2 days touring the city as well and captured an 837-megapixel photo of the Reichstag Building (below).

KATU News at 11 in Portland, Oregon did a feature on GigaPan Systems on December 9, 2012 and included my 10-gigapixel image of Downtown Vancouver in their package.