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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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Spring Wildflowers and Green Hills at Sunol  
Sunol Regional Wilderness, East Bay Area, California, USA
Lat: 37° 31' 26" N view map Long: 121° 48' 15" W
Date/Time: April 16, 2005 2:42PM
Equipment: Nikon SLR camera, homemade panhead atop a carbon fiber tripod.
Photo: Erik Goetze
Trinidad Bay and Lighthouse  
Trinidad, California, USA
Lat: 41° 3' 29.95" N view map Long: 124° 8' 35.52" W
Date/Time: October 17, 2005
Equipment: Coolpix 995, Wide Converter WC-E63 , handheld
...a day of sublime weather before the rainy months set in. Originally this natural bay was home to the Yurok village of Tsurai (Che..
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Photo: Stephen Hamilton
Overnight in Joshua Tree  
Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Lat: 34° 0' 36.78" N view map Long: 116° 6' 1.58" W
Date/Time: September 15, 2005 - 20:52:24 PST (-07:00 GMT)
Equipment: Canon EOS-20D, Sigma 8mm, ISO1600, f7.1 @ 10sec.
In 2005 we made four trips to Joshua Tree, from early spring into mid-winter. This panorama isn't my technical or artistic best; but 2005 was a great year of roadtrips and outdoor fun, and this image represents best for me these memories. In it you can see..
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Photo: Roger Howard
3 Giraffes Posing as Themselves  
Escondido, California, USA
Lat: 33° 5' 49" N view map Long: 116° 59' 45" W
Date/Time: October 17 2005 - afternoon
Equipment: I try to keep it light. Photographed with Canon Pro1 with FC-E9 fisheye lens, mounted with my spherical travle bracket to a gitzo G1027 tripod. Stitched in PT-gui and composited in Photoshop. For the Pro1 panorama solution see my website
While visiting San Diego Wild Animal Park we managed to be there at the same time as the first serious pouring rain in Southern California. To our delight our booked ride on the "photo Safari" suddenly became rather empty and we had the truck to ours..
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Photo: Bo Lorentzen
4th of July at the Golden Gate Bridge  
San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 49' 50" N view map Long: 122° 29' 52" W
Date/Time: July 4th, 9:25 pm
Equipment: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Canon EF 70-200mm lens at 70mm (112mm w/1.6 conversion) Tiltall tripod Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Apple QTVRAS
The Marin Headlands is a very popular spot to view 4th of July festivities in San Francisco so I arrived early to assure a spot to park. I quickly realized I was too close to the bridge for ..
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Photo: Lee Nelson
Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles  
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lat: 34° 2' 54.05" N view map Long: 118° 15' 0.61" W
Photo: Alex Pitt
Hyatt Regency Hotel Interior Lobby Space  
San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 47' 42" N view map Long: 122° 23' 54" W
Date/Time: July, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70, 18(27)mm lens, Manfrotto 303 SPH QTVR head, Velbon Sherpa 750n tripod, MacG4 Laptop & desktop PC, Photoshop, Realviz Stitcher 4.
The interior atrium lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco is one of the most interesting interior spaces. It is the world's largest lobby and probably the most photographed. This is where 360 photography is at its best, this space can only be c..
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Photo: Roberto Portolese
Office of Ernest Kadel  
Lincoln, California, USA
Lat: 38° 53' 44" N view map Long: 121° 17' 31" W
Date/Time: October 23, 2005 1PM Local time
Equipment: Canon 5D with 15mm fisheye lens mounted on a Really Right Stuff spherical bracket and a Manfrotto panorama head.
Ernest Kadel was the head modeler at the Gladding McBean Architectural Terra Cotta factory in Lincoln, California until his sudden and untimely death in 1959. As a testimony to their respect for him, his fellow employees have left his office just as it was on ..
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Photo: Mike Posehn
California Wildflowers  
Carrisa Hwy 58 & Shell Creek Rd, Paso Robles, California, USA
Lat: 35° 27' 36" N view map Long: 120° 20' 11" W
Date/Time: March 31, 2005, 20:45 UTC (11:45 PST)
Equipment: Shot with a Panoscan MKI digital panoramic camera with a Nikon 16mm full-frame fisheye lens. Post production was done with PanoPost for cropping and blending, Adobe Photoshop CS for adjustments, and finished with CubicConvertor 2.1.
With record rainfall in the Winter of 2004-2005, California had a bumper crop of wildflowers in the Spring of 2005. Our assignment was to shoot video and stills of rolling green hills with some wildflowers for use in audio-visual therapy programs for hospitals..
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Photo: Loren Price
Combat Information Center, USS Hornet  
Alameda, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
Lat: 37° 46' 20.92" N view map Long: 122° 18' 9.45" W
Date/Time: November 19, 2005, 3:01 PM PST (GMT -8).
Equipment: Nikon D70/10.5 mm with Precision 360 head (6 shots around, 1 up and 1 down), PTMac, CubicConverter, Photoshop.
The USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier built during World War II and upgraded at various times, now serves as a floating museum. This particular interior panorama depicts the Combat Information Center (CIC) where both friendly and enemy ships, planes, subm..
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Photo: Ken Stuart
Model Shop  
Southern California, USA
Lat: 33° 25' 29" N view map Long: 117° 36' 35" W
Date/Time: July 20, 2005 midday
Equipment: Nikon D70 10.5 DX lens Manfrotto 303SPH
Malcomb famous in the surfing world, single car garage model shop..
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Photo: William Wertz
An Annual Christmas Decorating Delight  
Greeley, Colorado, USA
Lat: 40° 24' 00" N view map Long: 104° 41' 00" W
Date/Time: 5:54PM December 18, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70 camera, Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens, Manfrotto 303 spherical tripod head, Gitzo 1325 carbon fiber tripod. Six images converted from fisheye format to conventional wide angle in Nikon Capture software. Quicktime movie created with RealViz Stitcher v4.0
The highlight for me when driving around town enjoying the residental Christmas decorations is to figure out many new lights, handmade figurines, and Christmas decorations have been added to my annual favorite home. According to the owners, there are more than..
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Photo: John Blake
Colorado and Southern Steam Locomotive No. 60  
Harold A. Anderson Park, Idaho Springs, Colorado, USA
Lat: 39° 44' 31.2" N view map Long: 105° 30' 46.8" W
Date/Time: 2005-06-21 Tuesday, 10:18 AM
Equipment: Nikon D100; Sigma 8mm; Bogan Tripod and 302 head; Photoshop CS; Panorama Tools; PTGUI; Panocube. All images shot in RAW format
Old No. 60 Colorado and Southern Steam Locomotive Number 60 spends a well-deserved retirement in Harold A. Anderson Park, Idaho Springs, Colorado. The class B-4C locomotive was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1886. This engine started serv..
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Photo: John Fellers
SpringTime in Rocky Mountain National Park  
Near Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA
Lat: 40° 18' 33.98" N view map Long: 105° 39' 29.99" W
Date/Time: Mid Day on March 18th, 2005
Equipment: Canon 20d with Canon 10-22 EFS. Single Row Monopod
My wife and I snow-shoeing our way up to Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. We started at the Bear Lake trailhead. A beautiful location, that prior to this I had only seen in mid-summer...
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Photo: David Goldwasser
Niagra Gulch  
Eureka, Colorado, USA
Lat: 37° 53' 24.66" N view map Long: 107° 33' 32.48" W
Date/Time: July 06, 2005
Eureka, Colorado, USA North along San Juan County Hwy 2 between Niagra Gulch and Burns Gulch...
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Photo: Rodrick Hemingway
Snowboarder Shaun White, Winter X Games 2005  
Aspen, Colorado, USA
Lat: 39° 12' 23" N view map Long: 106° 51' 34" W
Date/Time: January 30, 2005
Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma8mm, handheld
The annual Winter X Games attracts the finest athletes in the world to four days of extreme sports competition. The SuperPipe is 500 feet (152.4m) long, 18 feet (5.5m) deep and 54 feet (16.5) wide. Competitors launch themselves up to 20 feet in the air and per..
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Photo: Laura Pearson
Jefferson County Administration Building  
Golden, Colorado, USA
Lat: 39° 43' 41.16" N view map Long: 105° 12' 4.32" W
Date/Time: December 27th, 2005 14:21
Equipment: Canon 20D, Sigma 8mm, Panotools(thanks Helmut!), PTGui(thanks Joost!), Agnos Head.
Pressure is a great motivator. Not having a "best" pano beyond what was produced for the earlier World Wide Panorama events this year, I was determined to capture something impressive. I also believe that someone's best work is their latest. So h..
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Photo: Shawn Steigner
Historic Bok Sanctuary  
Lake Wales, Florida, USA
Lat: 27° 56' 9" N view map Long: 81° 34' 40" W
Date/Time: December 27, 2005 - 21:27 UTC (16:27 local time)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500/Nikon FC-E8/Agnos MrotatorA
“Looking up at the 205-foot Gothic and art deco Carillon Tower is an experience like no other. Designed by famed architect Milton B. Medary and ornately crafted by noted stone sculptor Lee Lawrie, the Tower houses one of the world’s finest carillons.†â€..
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Photo: John R. Birchman
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