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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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High Atop Old Barney  
Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA
Lat: 39° 45' 51" N view map Long: 74° 06' 21" W
Date/Time: 10/27/2005 2:08PM
Equipment: Canon Powershot A20
This VR panorama was taken atop Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Affectionately known as Old Barney, it is 217 steps to the top. The light is 172 ft. above sea level and the views are awesome. You can see Atlantic City in this photo, (note..
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Photo: Steven Kolarik
Saint Francis Church  
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Lat: 35° 41' 11" N view map Long: 105° 56' 12" W
Date/Time: 2005-06-30
Santa Fe has dozens of churches, the Saint Francis church in the center of town is a favorite of many. Every time you see a statue of a robed man feeding animals or with birds on his shoulders, most likely the artist was trying to show Saint Francis in an act ..
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Photo: Andrew C. Bairnsfather
Runway 22 Laguardia Airport  
Flushing, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 46' 56" N view map Long: 73° 51' 53" W
Equipment: Fuji S2 - PTGUI
Looking West to North. Transitioning Laguardia Airport in a Robinson R44 Helicopter...
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Photo: Andre R. Aragon
Brooke Rogers Pencil Paintings  
Saint Peter's Church, New York City, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 45' 31" N view map Long: 73° 58' 15" W
Date/Time: November 18, 2005, 8:40 PM EST
Equipment: Canon digital EOS, Kiadan, Adobe Photoshop, Realviz Stitcher and a Macintosh.
I chose this panorama for my "Best of 2005" submission because of the moment it captured for a very good friend of mine, Brooke Rogers. I've known Brooke as a surfer for more than twenty years. Brooke has worked for me as a graphic artist in the ..
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Photo: Art Baltrotsky
YABADABADOO--Stand Up For Failure  
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 41' 43" N view map Long: 73° 57' 35" W
Date/Time: November 27, 2005
Equipment: Canon D30, 15mm, multiple exposures, Kaidan QPX-2, Stitcher, Photoshop, Cubic Converter
Sometimes it's good to kick out the jams. Sometimes the attempt is as important as the result. Sometimes failure gives birth to the new. Sometimes limitation and limits gives rise to freedom. Sometimes you need to just have fun. It depends. The main piece ..
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Photo: Margaret E Bazura
A Walk Through "The Gates"  
Central Park, New York City, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 46' 3" N view map Long: 73° 58' 42" W
Date/Time: February 15, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70, 10.5mm Nikkor fisheye lens, Jasper PanoHead II and Manfrotto Tripod Realviz Stitcher, Photoshop, CubicConverter and CubicConnecter, Quicktime Pro
A view of "The Gates" on Tuesday February 15, 2005. It was a beautiful warm and spring-like winter day. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's creation charmed thousands as they walked about, sat or played in Central Park that day...
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Photo: Elizabeth Gentile
Times Square  
Famous place in New York, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 45' 30.64" N view map Long: 73° 59' 6.98" W
Date/Time: June 23, 2005 - 12:14 pm local time
Equipment:
  • Canon EOS 20D + EF-S 17-85/4-5,6 IS USM
  • Nodal Ninja pano head
  • Realviz Stitcher 4
That's my very first panorama !..
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Photo: Jérôme Habasque
New Year's Celebration in Times Square  
Times Square, New York City, New York, USA
Lat: 40° 45' 30" N view map Long: 73° 59' 8" W
Date/Time: January 1, 2005 12:03AM EST
Equipment: Nikon D70 with Nikkor 8mm/2.8 Fisheye
This was my first panorama of 2005 and a year later remains a favorite. Taken a few minutes after midnight in the midst of fireworks and confetti raining down on the crowds gathered in Times Square on New Year's Eve...
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Photo: Jook Leung
United Nations New York  
New York, USA
Lat: 40° 45' 01" N view map Long: 73° 58' 04" W
Date/Time: October, 20th 1995
Equipment: Panoscan Mark3 with a Mamiya 24mm fisheye lens. Three panos were mixed together to adjust the difficult lighting situation.
Photographed for the CD ROM "A Visual Tour of the UN". The General Assembly Hall is the largest room at the UN Headquarters, with seating capacity for about 1,900 people. Here, in the General Assembly Hall, the delegations of all 191 Member States me..
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Photo: Jens Look
St. Lawrence River, New York, USA  
Pavillion (town dock) at Thousand Island Park, New York, USA
Lat: 44° 17' 5" N view map Long: 76° 1' 37" W
Date/Time: May 7, 2005 at 3:52 PM
Equipment: Nikon CoolPix 4500 and FC-E8 fisheye lens, no tripod (handheld pano). Six photos (four around the horizontal plus one each for the zenith and nadir). Stitched with PTGui/Panotools and converted to QT with Pano2QTVR.
A beautiful Spring day set the stage for this pano. The Thousand Islands region is a popular tourist destination along the US-Canada border. I took this shot in early May before summer residents and visitors arrived, giving a rather empty feeling to the shot. ..
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Photo: Tim Poulsen
Along the Lower Niagara River  
Lewiston, New York, USA
Lat: 43° 9' 1" N view map Long: 79° 2' 31" W
Date/Time: 30 October 2005 - 2 PM Eastern
Equipment: Olympus D-40 Zoom (4 mp) digital camera on standard photo tripod. Processed on an Apple PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz using PTMac, Photoshop CS, and QTVR Make Panorama 2.
I chose this spot along the Niagara River because it combines almost all of the previous WWP themes in one place; Energy (the US and Canadian Hydro Power Facilities), Bridges (the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge), Water (the Niagara River), and Sanctuary (the quiet..
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Photo: David Schaubert
Eyes Wide Open  
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Lat: 36° 4' 9" N view map Long: 79° 47' 17" W
Date/Time: Saturday, January 24, 2005
Equipment: Fuji S2, Nikkor 10.5mm lens, Manfrotto 303SPH pano head Photoshop, PTMac, CubicConverter, Apple Macintosh
Eyes Wide Open, a project of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), was "An Exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War." In January 2005, Eyes Wide Open brought more than 1,570 pairs of military boots to Greensboro, North Carolina. E..
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Photo: Tom Lassiter
Meet the Radio City Rockettes  
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Lat: 35° 12' 14.4" N view map Long: 80° 47' 38.76" W
Date/Time: December 15, 2005 | 11:42 a.m. EST (GMT -5)
Equipment: Camera & lens: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm fisheye. Support: Bogen 3050 tripond, Manfrotto 303 VR head. Lighting: Dynalite UNI400Jr monolight and Chimera 24x36 softbox on an extra-long Gitzo monopod, triggered with Pocketwizard Multimax remotes. Imaging: RAW image acquire in Adobe Bridge/Adobe Photoshop CS2. Stitching: Stitched in PTMac. Nadir and zenith patched and branded with Cubic Converter. Hair, costumes and makeup: The Radio City Rockettes.
Twenty minutes with the Snow Fairies Members of the Radio City Rockettes took a few minutes from their busy schedule to pose for a panoramic portrait in the upstairs lobby of the historic Ovens Auditorium on Thursday, December 15, 2005, in Charlotte, No..
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Photo: Gary O'Brien
View of Chimney Rock and Hickory Nut Gorge  
Chimney Rock Park, North Carolina, USA
Lat: 35° 25' 57" N view map Long: 82° 15' 2.02" W
Date/Time: November 6, 2005
Equipment: Fuji S2 Pro; Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye lens; 360 Precision Panohead
Photo: John Riley
Gales Creek  
Washington County, Oregon, USA
Lat: 45° 39' 6.48" N view map Long: 123° 18' 43.2" W
Date/Time: July,28,2005 20:22 UTC (12:22 local time)
Equipment: Canon 1Ds mkII, Canon 15mm fisheye, 1/40 sec, F8, ISO400
Gales Creek flows east out of the coastal range in western Oregon. While traveling from Hillsboro to Tillamook on highway 6, part of your journey follows Gales Creek. Where this panorama was taken the creek is about 50 feet below the road. Most drive by this p..
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Photo: Robert S. Haan
Timberline Lodge  
Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA
Lat: 45° 18' 39" N view map Long: 121° 44' 17" W
Date/Time: November 30, 2005
Equipment: Canon 10D, Sigma 15mm, Manfrotto 303SPH, Manfrotto Mdeve Tripod w/level head, RealViz Stitcher, Apple Powerbook 12in, K2 "Piste Stinx" Telemark Skis...
Historic Timberline lodge sits at 6000 feet on Mount Hood (elevation 11,249 feet). Built in 1937, as part of the depression era work project, local craftsmen carved banisters and engineered massive timbers and stone into the National Historic Landmark it is to..
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Photo: George H Thomas
Frozen Mist Above Lititz Run  
Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA
Lat: 40° 8' 3" N view map Long: 76° 15' 31" W
Date/Time: December 11, 2005, early morning
Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5mm 1:2.8 DX lens, 360Precision panorama head, ISO 200, 1/400 @ f11, RAW, Adobe Bridge, PhotoShop, PTMac, CubicConverter.
This VR panorama was photographed on an extremely cold December morning in a conservation area in the valley below my home. The trees and plants were coated with ice formed by fog rising from the Lititz Run. The pure white snow, the ice glistening on the branc..
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Photo: Tom Fulmer
Live 8 in Philadelphia  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lat: 39° 57' 46.08" N view map Long: 75° 10' 37.92" W
Date/Time: July 2, 2005 - 17:53 UTC (13:53 local time)

Live 8 in Philadelphia

July 2, 2005. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Will Smith on stage playing to his hometown. Somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 people in attendance...
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Photo: Yischon Liaw
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