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wwp1205
Best of 2005 A World Wide Panorama

The final WWP event of 2005 offered all VR photographers the chance to send in their personal favourite image from the whole year - no limit on topic or date. Over 300 responded, representing 46 countries.

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WWP 304 - Marketplace | WWP 604 - World Heritage | WWP 904 - Bridges | WWP 1204 - Sanctuary | WWP 305 - Marketplace | WWP 605 - Water | WWP 905 - Energy | WWP 1205 - Best of 2005

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Citylounge / Stadtlounge  
Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Lat: 47° 25' 19" N view map Long: 9° 22' 22" E
Date/Time: November 8, 2005 - 16:20 UTC (17:20 local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm, 360precision head, manfrotto tripod
The city of Sankt Gallen and the Raiffeisenbank (SVRB) announced a design competition to make the Bleicheli Quarter more attractive. The winning idea of a "public living room" by artist Pipilotti Rist and architect Carlos Martinez is called City L..
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Photo: Patrick Füglistaller
FLOOD  
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lat: 47° 03' 08" N view map Long: 8° 18' 29" E
Date/Time: August, 24, 2005 - 11:30 Local Time
Equipment: Olympus C-5060, 19 mm (equiv.), Manfrotto-Panohead, Photoshop CS, Panoramafacatory.

BIG FLOOD.

Lucerne, August 2005. The big flood. The City of Lucerne was a "little Venedig": The famous Chapel Bridge was closed - because the Lake of Lucerne and the river Reuss were too high after days of raining. The flood was a big attrac..
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Photo: Tomas Gerber
Strawberries  
Zurich, Switzerland
Lat: 47° 22' 35" N view map Long: 8° 31' 35" E
Date/Time: March 18, 2005 - 8.45 GMT (9.45 local time)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, FC-E8
March 18, 2005 - the very first spring day - had a wonderful light. Far too good for one panorama only (which was already released at WWP 305)...
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Photo: Guido Homberger
Collegio Papio  
Ascona, Switzerland
Lat: 46° 9' 18" N view map Long: 8° 46' 15.6" E
Date/Time: 17-Nov-2005 16:00
Equipment:
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
I found the subject "best of 2005" more difficult than expected. "Best" is such a subjective notion, and even then it is relative to the evaluation criteria, for a technical evaluation will yield different ranking than an artistic, commerci..
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Photo: Yuval Levy
Flight  
Between Davos and Samedan / Switzerland
Lat: 46° 39' 39" N view map Long: 09° 49' 43" E
Date/Time: October 25, 2005 / 12:30 local time
Equipment: Nikon D70 / Nikkor 10.5mm / 360Precision / PTGui
  • Image distortion correction in PTGui 5.5 and output as Photoshop file
  • Images color corrected, manually blended and assembled in Photoshop CS2
  • transfered to QTVR with help of pano2qtvr
Why do I look so worried? I was very concentrated to shoot the photos as accurate as possible because the tripod was very wobbly between the seats and the wind outside had us jumping in the air. Here we fly over the pass "Albula" between Davos and..
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Photo: Peter Nyfeler
Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe  
Grindelwald / Wengen, Switzerland
Lat: 46° 33' 06" N view map Long: 7° 59' 11" E
Date/Time: September 15, 2005 - 12:56 (local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70 - Nikkor 10,5 (fullframe fisheye) Manfrotto 055ProB with Pano-MAXX-VR1 PTMac - Photoshop - CubicConverter Quicktime Pro 7 Macintosh Powerbook 17" - 1,67 GHz OSX 10.4
Photo: Rolf Ris
Best of 2005 - A Panoramic Journey  
Zermatt, Switzerland
Lat: 46° 1' 28" N view map Long: 7° 44' 58" E
For me the year 2005 was a spectacular and truly panoramic year. I want to use this occasion to review my panoramic journey. The first moments of 2005 were captured by a panorama at the - read more -

Photo: Matthias Taugwalder
Marc-André Tarte «freestyle.champ» 2005  
Zurich, Switzerland
Lat: 47° 21' 5.4" N view map Long: 8° 32' 6.36" E
Date/Time: September 25., 14:25h
Equipment: Nikon D2X with a 10,5mm Fisheye

Marc-André Tarte (CAN) wins with his «Onefoot Backflip»

freestyle.ch – The world’s best freestyle athletes 2005 are crowned: Marc-André Tarte (Snowboard, CAN), Laurent Favre (Freeski, FRA), Mat Rebeaud (FMX, SUI), Simon Tabron (BMX, UK) and Ju..
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Photo: Werner Weber
View of Istanbul from Galata Tower  
Istanbul, Turkey
Lat: 41° 0' 24" N view map Long: 28° 56' 40" E
Date/Time: December 26, 2005 - 19:46 UTC (21:46 local time)
Equipment: Canon EOS 1Ds, Canon Powershot Pro1
This is a 360-degree VR panorama taken from Galata Tower in Istanbul. Single photos were taken as three different series, then joined together using Autostitch and finally retouched in Photoshop...
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Photo: murat germen
Hagia Sophia  
Istanbul, Turkey
Lat: 41° 0' 31" N view map Long: 28° 58' 48" E
Date/Time: Februar 15. 2005
Equipment: Nice old Nikon Coolpix 950 (not my standard equipment) and without tripod!
One of the greatest monuments of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was built 532 to 537. The architects of the building are Anthemios of Tralles and Isidoros of Miletos...
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Photo: Frederic W. Hutter
Eden Project at Night  
Bodelva, Cornwall, England, UK
Lat: 50° 21' 33" N view map Long: 4° 44' 38" W
Date/Time: August 22, 2005 - 20:18 UTC (21:18 Local Time)
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 990 and a FC-E8 Fisheye lens. Mounted on a simple L shaped bracket. 4 portrait frames taken 90 degrees apart with the fisheye circle just touching the top and bottom of the frame, while being clipped on the left and right. Stitched using PTGui / Panotools and converted to a QTVR Cube using Pano2QTVR Pro.
While holidaying this summer in Cornwall, one of the places my family and I wanted to visit was the Eden Project. While looking into the place we found that during the summer months they did something th..
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Photo: Robert Bilsland
Tate London  
London, England, UK
Lat: 51° 30' 17" N view map Long: 0° 5' 58" W
Date/Time: January, 2005
Equipment: Roundshot 28/220
The pano was shot in the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern Museum..
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Photo: Duri Campell (Duca)
After The Wedding  
Coxley, Somerset, England, UK
Lat: 51° 11' 21.12" N view map Long: 2° 40' 28.92" W
Date/Time: Saturday July 16th 2005
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000, Kaidan Kiwi+ Head
After their wedding at Wells Registry Office, Jerry & Katharine Baker (Charsley) returned to a relative's garden in Coxley, Somerset where they were set upon by a horde of three-megapixel-toting wellwishers and an architectural photographer with an out..
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Photo: Steve Cole
A Ball's Eye View  
Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Lat: 53° 46' 7.45" N view map Long: 1° 3' 52.91" W
Date/Time: 3 September 2005
Equipment: Canon 300D + Sigma 8mm + Manfrotto Spherical head
This panorama was part of a series showing the inner workings of a bowling alley. While it may not be the most scenic or technically perfect shot ever produced, it is a novel example of h..
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Photo: Nick Crossland
Kent in Snow  
North Downs, above Devil's Kneading Trough, England, UK
Lat: 51° 10' 7" N view map Long: 0° 58' 8" E
Date/Time: 28 December 2005, 2:20pm
Equipment: Canon EOS 350D, Sigma 8mm fisheye lens, 360Precision tripod head.
In line with predictions, eastern Britain is having one of its coldest winters for two decades, with the inevitable result that 15cm of snow brought the trains to a halt and left quite a number of businesses closed. Not that it stopped a large number of people..
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Photo: Richard Crowest
Rhodes House Memorial Dome  
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Lat: 51° 45' 27" N view map Long: 1° 15' 18" W
Date/Time: November 25th 2005 15.50 GMT
Equipment: Canon 5D with Canon 15mm F2.8 lens using a 360precision pano head. Processed with RealViz Stitcher, Adobe Photoshop CS2, CubicConvertor. see tutorial here http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/canon5dworkflow/
Rhodes House was built as a memorial to Cecil Rhodes. It provides a headquarters for the Rhodes Trust and facilities for educational and other purposes. The Rhodes Scholarships have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Oxford-based Rhodes Trus..
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Photo: Karl Harrison
Boxing Day at the Beach  
Birling Gap, East Sussex, England, UK
Lat: 50° 44' 39" N view map Long: 0° 12' 14" E
Date/Time: 26th December, midday
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D\15mm FE\360 Precision pano head\Manfrotto 055\PTMac\Cubic Convertor - JOY
Just my family and friends walking off Christmas on the beach. Best of 2005 because this is my first pano with my new kit - a great way to start the New Year...
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Photo: Bruce Hemming
Lock on the Great Ouse  
Great Barford, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Lat: 52° 9' 10" N view map Long: 0° 20' 28" W
Date/Time: December 16, 2005 - 11.58 UTC (12:58 local time)
Equipment: Taken with a hand-held Canon 20D + Sigma 8mm fisheye. Raw images processed with Adobe ACR in Photoshop CS2, Stitched with PTGui and Panorama Tools.
Nobody but myself by the river on this cold winter's morning. Very tranquil, apart from the roar from the water cascading over the weir in the background. Nice cloud formations above...
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Photo: John Houghton
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