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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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Graffiti Alley - Smile Square  
Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lat: 43° 38' 51" N view map Long: 79° 24' 2" W
Date/Time: December 2005
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4300, wide angle lens
This urban space is an expansion of the alley in the Queen West and Richmond area of downtown Toronto, Canada. The system of alleys and passage-ways goes for kilometers. Notice the unintentional ironic significance of the street names to their content. It is a..
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Photo: Aleksandar Janicijevic
To Aboriginal Veterans  
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Lat: 45° 25' 13" N view map Long: 75° 41' 31" W
Date/Time: December 18 2005 ~4:40 pm
Equipment: Nikon D-70, Nikkor 10.5 / 2.8, RAW (NEF) source image format Tripod - Jiottos VT-809 with home-made panohead, Stitched by PanoLab Beta vesion ( http://panolab.dimensions360.com ) - completely original stitching software tool which I plan to release in Jan 2006 Logo inserted using Corel PhotoPaint 7. No retouch had been made. Converted to QTVR by Pano2QTVR ( http://www.pano2qtvr.com ). Special thanks to Thomas Rauscher for this excellent tool!
This monument is located on Elgin Street in the City of Ottawa and is dedicated to Aboriginal Veterans, live and fallen. One of the best monuments in Ottawa and definitely my favorite one. I've tried to shoot this monument a few times before but didn't..
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Photo: Alex Makienko
Winterlude on the Rideau Canal  
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Lat: 45° 25' 23" N view map Long: 75° 41' 27" W
Date/Time: Sunday, February 13 @ 2:00PM EST
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 995 with Fisheye(FC-E8) lens. 6 around + 1 up + 2 down Stitched with PanoramaTools using PTGui, Pano2QTVR & Photoshop
The Rideau Canal cuts through downtown Ottawa. When it freezes over in the winter, it is the world's largest skating rink. Winterlude is one of Ottawa's ways of making the most out of winter. At the center of the Winterlude activities the frozen Rid..
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Photo: Jim Watters
Western Festival in Saint-Tite  
Québec, Canada
Lat: 46° 21' 50" N view map Long: 72° 35' 44" W
Date/Time: September 15, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10,5mm full frame fisheye and my custom monopod.
Western rodeo in Saint-Tite Each and every year, 400,000 cowboys gather in Saint-Tite, province of Québec, Canada. This small town has a population of 4000 souls, but for the two weeks of the Western Festival in September, it attracks up to half a million peo..
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Photo: Michel Briere
The One Ton Challenge  
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lat: 45° 30' 24.12" N view map Long: 73° 33' 46.08" W
Date/Time: Thursday, December 01, 2005, 10:54 EST
Equipment: A Canon EOS 5D with a Canon 16-35mm L series lens set at the 16mm setting was used on a Manfrotto 303SPH head. The cubic panorama was stitched together with RealViz Stitcher V4. This panorama was shot with available light at 1/50 of a second @ f 3.5 in Raw mode on the Canon EOS 5D. I made a series of 26 scenes or photographs. I processed all the images in the RAW conversion software Capture One Pro V3.7 from Phase. This software allows me to set the white point balance, drop the contrast, adjust the colour saturation, and fine tune the exposures before I create pixels. This process allows for a better workflow and cleaner files then correcting in PhotoShop. The images are then stitched together in RealViz Stitcher and the QuickTime panoramas are then converted from the flat tiff images
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change for 2005 took place in Montreal from November 28th to December 09th. The One Ton Challenge was a display which was part of the Canadian Pavillion at the conference. A ball with a diameter of 10 meters was hung fr..
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Photo: Francis Fougere
Chaudiere Waterfalls  
Charny (Québec), Canada
Lat: 46° 42' 52" N view map Long: 71° 16' 37" W
Date/Time: 29.09.05, 15:00
Equipment: Thanks to Yuval Levy that i could use it. Camera and Tripod Panotools 2.7.0.10Thanks Jim Watters PT Gui 5.1 Thanks Joost Nieuwenhuijse Panorama Tools Plug-Ins (16-bit)Thanks Thomas Niemann Pano2QTVRThanks Thomas Rauscher Adobe Photoshop
The falls on the Chaudiere River, in Charny's Parc de la Chute de la Chaudiere. A suspended footbridge offers a breathtaking view of the 35-metre high falls. Trails and lookout points enhance this exceptional site. A small hydro-electric power station is a..
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Photo: Christoph Tobler
Shubox Theatre, before "Challenging Bodies"  
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lat: 50° 24' 58" N view map Long: 104° 35' 27" W
Date/Time: Friday, June 24, 2005, 5:00 PM (23:00 UTC)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, FC-E8 Fisheye Lens, Custom tripod head, PTMac to stitch, 6 shots (North, South, East, West, Zenith, Nadir) using "panorama assist", landscape mode. Photos: 2272x1704.
(For this "best of" event, I wanted to show something different, something indoors.) From the Challenging Bodies Project Description: "The Challenging Bodies project, a music/theatre/dance/multimedia event, investigated the notion of physical ex..
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Photo: David Gerhard
Cold June Day from Yaki Point  
South Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
Lat: 36° 3' 30.13" N view map Long: 112° 4' 58.12" W
Date/Time: June 10, 2005 at 6:15am PST
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, Bogen Manfrotto 303SPH ISO 200, f/11, multiple RAW exposures Adobe Bridge RAW manipulation Photoshop CS2 & HDR for Dummies Action PTGui Pano2QTVR
This image at Yaki Point in the Grand Canyon was among the best shots that I have done in 2005. This particular pano was done following a day-long shoot the day before in and around the Grand Canyon for an advertising agency's client. Since this was my f..
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Photo: Hoyle Koontz
By the Light of the Silver Moon  
South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
Lat: 36° 0' 34" N view map Long: 111° 53' 32" W
Date/Time: May 24th, 2005 - 03:57 UTC (May 23rd, 19:57 local time)
Equipment: Canon Digital Rebel (300D), 18-55mm lens (set to 18mm), regular tripod, no pano head, ISO 100, f 3.5, 30 second exposure, RAW, PTGui 5.6, Photoshop CS, pano2QTVR, NBNC
After visiting 3 National Parks in a single day a spectacular full Moon illuminated the scene before me. Later I learned that at the same time I was shooting this 2 friends were on a river rafting trip on the Colorado River that flowed silently one mile below..
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Photo: Pat Swovelin
Laurel and Hardy at the Wax Museum  
Buena Park, California, USA
Lat: 33° 51' 4.07" N view map Long: 117° 59' 53.38" W
Date/Time: October 28, 2005
Equipment: Shot with a canon 20D with a Tamron 11-18 lens and a Bogen 303SPH head. Stitch was made with PTGui and Pano2QTVR.
This is one of my best and my favorite panorama for 2005. It is a shot of the now closed Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park California. The shot has myself and a good friend (Jack Gallagher) in the mirror reflections. When I shot this the Museum was going to c..
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Photo: Eric Anderson
The View from the Old Barn  
La Crescenta, California, USA
Lat: 34° 14' 56.59" N view map Long: 118° 15' 12.72" W
Date/Time: May 11, 2005 5:52 pm PST
Equipment: Minolta Dimage Z1 (3.2 megapixel camera with a 28mm equivalent wide angle adaptor) sitting on a custom made pano bracket which sits on my 30 year old Vivitar 2200 tripod which has a broken foot. PTgui used for stitching, Photoshop 6 used for tweaking, Panocube used for conversion to QTVR.
This is the Deukmejian Wilderness Park. It is a peaceful place situated at the foot of Mt. Lukens, overlooking the Crescenta Valley with an incredible view of the V..
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Photo: Bryant Arnett
Summer Day at Nevada Fall  
On the John Muir Trail, Yosemite National Park, USA
Lat: 37° 43' 18.77" N view map Long: 119° 32' 21.08" W
Date/Time: June 11, 2005 2:10pm PST
Equipment: Canon 300D, Peleng 8mm Fisheye, Panosarus Pan Head, Monopod Panorama Tools, PTAssembler, Autopano, Enblend, Photoshop CS, Panocube
As you hike up the John Muir trail towards the top of Nevada Fall your view of the Fall becomes more stunning with each switchback. It culminates with this view at the start of "The Cut" where the trail goes along a cut that was blasted out of the c..
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Photo: Joel M. Baldwin
Best Effort  
Mount Whitney, California, USA
Lat: 36° 34' 42.9" N view map Long: 118° 17' 32.2" W
Date/Time: July 30, 2005 3:30pm (15:00PDT)
Equipment: Nikon D100, 10.5 Nikor fisheye, Paws monopod
On July 30th I went hiking with twelve other people to the summit of Mount Whitney. I had been training with Landis since January to hike to an elevation of 14,497 feet from a starting point just below 8,000 feet. In the interim months Landis and I started hi..
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Photo: Kat Bennett
Autumnal Vines  
Sonoma County, California, USA
Lat: 38° 14' 29.37" N view map Long: 122° 21' 8.68" W
Date/Time: 5 November 2005 - 09:15 PST
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical Software: Kekus PanoTools Plug-ins, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop CS, Enblend, CubicConverter, QT Player Pro, VRPrep
Autumn in the California Wine Country. Driving around the North Bay in the fall one is treated to acres and acres of grape vines changing color with the seasons. This is always one of my favorite times of year and one that I'm happy to share with you. ..
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Photo: Landis Bennett
Columbus and Broadway  
San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 47' 53.16" N view map Long: 122° 24' 25.2" W
Date/Time: May 6, 2005 7:45 p.m. UTC (11:24 a.m. local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm Nikkor lens, 360 Precision head, PTMac and CubicConverter
At the intersection of Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco, lies the heart of San Francisco's North Beach Neighborhood. Standing at the intersection and looking back towa..
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Photo: Jed Clark
Nevada Falls seen from the John Muir Trail  
Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Lat: 37° 43' 6.1" N view map Long: 119° 33' 42.05" W
Photo: Greg Downing
Howard Street at Night  
San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 47' 2" N view map Long: 122° 24' 8" W
Date/Time: January 14, 2005; 6:30 PM Pacific Time
Equipment: Hardware: Fuji S2 Pro Camera, 10.5mm Nikkor lens, Custom Bogen rotator. Software: PT Mac, Enblend, Photoshop CS, Cubic Converter.
While attending MacWorld 2005 I went out after dusk and shot around Yerba Buena Gardens, which sits on top of the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. I thought this might be an interesting place to shoot a pano so I waited for darkness. After I shot it t..
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Photo: Robert C. Fisher
Cataract Falls  
Cataract Falls, Marin County, California, USA
Lat: 37° 55' 34" N view map Long: 122° 37' 56" W
Date/Time: April 10, 2005
Equipment: Olympus E-1, Kaidan Spherical Tripod Head, Bogen Tripod. 14-54 mm lens, set to 14 (35-mm equivalent 28mm). 30 pictures + nadir / zenith.
Cataract Falls are located near the town of Fairfax, north of San Francisco, away from the hustle, noise and pollution of big metropolitan areas. There are seven waterfalls in a row. I believe I photographed the third one from the bottom...
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Photo: Christian Gavin
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