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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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National Memorial Arch  
Valley Forge National Historic Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Lat: 40° 05' 58" N view map Long: 75° 27' 57" W
Date/Time: December 10, 2005, 2:37 PM
Equipment: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro, Nikon Nikkor 8 mm f/2.8 fisheye, Agnos MRotator TCP Short, Manfrotto 3001B Pro tripod. Some warm leather gloves and a thermos of hot chocolate was helpful. Stitching was with Easypano's Panoweaver 4.0.
Photo: Carlton SooHoo, Ph.D.
Sayles Hall  
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Lat: 41° 49' 34" N view map Long: 71° 24' 09" W
Date/Time: September 7th, 2005 12:17 pm
Equipment: Nikon D70, Nikon 10.5 mm lens, 360 Precision head
Sayles Hall, site of countless classes, concerts, parties, and lectures, is a memorial by a father to a child who died in young adulthood. William Clark Sayles (class of 1878) died in his sophomore year; two years later, when William’s class gathered at Comm..
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Photo: Edward Huff
East Bay Street  
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Lat: 32° 46' 19.2" N view map Long: 79° 55' 36.48" W
Date/Time: Oct 23 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70
Photo: David A. Windham
Winter Wonderland  
Falls Park, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Lat: 43° 33' 25.01" N view map Long: 96° 43' 20.05" W
Date/Time: 12-01-2005 12:14PM Central
Equipment: Minolta 7Hi, Panasuarus pano head, Bogen 3221 Tripod, PTGui, Photopshop and Pano2QTVR-GUI
Falls Park, Sioux Falls South Dakota. When deciding to use this image it wasn’t that I felt it was the best that I have done, but rather the best place to be no matter what time of year it is. This place has been so important to me all throughout my l..
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Photo: Michael J. Oistad
Gaylord Opryland Hotel  
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Lat: 36° 09' 32" N view map Long: 86° 46' 55" W
Date/Time: September 12th, 2005 7:15 AM
Equipment: I shoot with a Canon 10D and Sigma 14mm lens using a Pinnacle VR tripod head, (available at http://pinnacle-vr.com ) This allows me to shoot the necessary 24 images (three rows of eight shots) and keep everything pin registered. For this image, I took three sets of exposures: one at 8 seconds at f22 for the shadows, another at 1 second at f22 for the mid tones, and a third at 1/8 of a second at f22 for the highlights. I blended these in PhotoShop.
The Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville, TN is an enormous complex with three large glass enclosed areas. Each of these is the size of a couple football fields, if not larger. The landscaping is simply stunning with meandering walkways that lead you through sm..
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Photo: Mark Fink
The Spot  
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Lat: 35° 08' 24.49" N view map Long: 90° 02' 30.98" W
This panorama was taken here in Memphis in an area Known as "The Spot", an alley common to the local graffiti artists...
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Photo: Relic Graffix
Rhododendron Creek  
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA
Lat: 35° 43' 2" N view map Long: 83° 23' 32" W
Date/Time: October 26, 2005
Equipment: Minolta A2, Nodal Ninja, PTGui, Pano2QTVR
Even in the most-visited National Park in the US, there are still beautiful places to go where there is no sign of the trail that brought you there, and nobody else around except whoever came with you...
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Photo: Dan Heimsoth
Fall Season in Texas  
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Lat: 32° 44' 13" N view map Long: 97° 21' 56" W
Date/Time: December 5, 2005 0900h GMT -6
Equipment: Canon 20d, Sigma 8, RAW Tif 16bit images, Kaidan Kiwi990 Pan head, PTgui 5.5, Panoweaver 4, Photoshop CS2, Pano2qtvr Pro
Fall in Texas is a special time of our year. The warm sun casts gentle shadows. I do like what I see, and now you too see it from where I sit...
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Photo: Dave Albright
Fall Season in Texas Part 2  
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Lat: 32° 44' 14" N view map Long: 97° 21' 54" W
Date/Time: December 5, 2005 0915h -6 GMT
Equipment: Canon Rebel XT [350d], Sigma 8mm, 16bit Raw images converted to TIF's, Kaidan 990 pan head, Panoweaver 4, Ptgui 5.5, Photoshop CS2, Pano2qtvr Pro.
Texas Fall is truely special. Reds, evergreens and yellows sparkle in the morning sunshine. I also am a person of few words. I do like this image set. Now you too may see it from where I sit...
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Photo: Pat Albright
USS Lexington / Blue Ghost at night  
Corpus Christi Bay, off of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, USA
Lat: 27° 48' 53" N view map Long: 97° 23' 20" W
Date/Time: 9:12 PM, July 25, 2005
Equipment: I use Nikon D70 bodies and lenses. For this immersive panorama, I used:
  • 10.5mm f/2.8 lens
  • Manfrotto 3233 tripod
  • Manfrotto 303 SPH panorama head
  • Manfrotto 3416 tripod leveler
  • Photoshop CS2
  • PTGui
  • Pano2QTVR

USS Lexington / Blue Ghost

The Blue Ghost, officially known as the USS Lexington is a 33 thousand ton aircraft carrier. Once a brave warrior of the cold oceans, she's now a museum on water and is situated in the Texas Coastal Bend area on C..
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Photo: Patrick Born
American Wind Power Center & Museum  
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Lat: 33° 34' 45" N view map Long: 101° 49' 26" W
Date/Time: December 23, 2005 - 15:34 CST
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995+Kiwi 995 with the Nikon FC-E8 fisheye lens. Stitching was done with PTGui + Enblend + Photoshop.
The Wind Power Museum in Lubbock, Texas shows off many different varieties of windmills. Both wood- and metal-vaned ones can be seen in this panorama. Visitors to the museum will be shocked by the size of some of the windmills up close, with exhibits in the ..
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Photo: Tim Hatch
Eminent Domain - An Art Installation  
Houston, Texas, USA
Lat: 29° 43' 10" N view map Long: 95° 23' 41" W
Date/Time: November 23, 2005
Eminent Domain is an art installation by Matthew White and Frank Webb, award winning interior designers. The following is a quote from the Rice University Gallery Web Site "The designers hyper-enlarge black and white reproductions of the engravings, silk-..
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Photo: Laurie & Mike Price
From the Bell Tower at Holly Hall  
Bristol, Vermont, USA
Lat: 44° 7' 59" N view map Long: 73° 4' 43" W
Date/Time: October, 21st, 2005 at 9 AM (Eastern Standard Time)
Equipment: Nikon - D70 / Sigma - 8mm
As a quintessential New England town, with sidewalks, a town green complete with gazebo, Bristol Vermont is known as the gateway to the Green Mts. Here is a view from the architectural center of Bristol, Holly Hall. Shot in the fall, season of color, the par..
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Photo: Tom Pollak
Stratford Hall Plantation  
Stratford, Virginia, USA
Lat: 38° 8' 56.04" N view map Long: 76° 50' 23.64" W
Date/Time: April 9, 2005 - 14:30 UTC (10:30 local time)
Equipment: Nikon D70 with Nikkor 18-70mm Panosaurus PTGui with Panorama Tools Pano2QTVR
Stratford Hall Plantation is known primarily as the birthplace of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee (of the United States Civil War.) The grounds are now a museum, and the restaurant is available for banquets and other functions. I was there for my siste..
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Photo: Julie Pecenco
Governor's Palace  
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Lat: 37° 16' 26" N view map Long: 76° 42' 8" W
Date/Time: November, 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm
The Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg is considered one of three great public buildings in Williamsburg, Virginia. Taking 16 years of fitful building to complete, it was one of the finest homes of its kind in America at the time. It served as a p..
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Photo: Brian Raines
Concrete Canvas  
Blakely Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Lat: 47° 35' 48" N view map Long: 122° 30' 58" W
Date/Time: December 3, 2005 - 2pm
Equipment: Nikon D70 Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens Manfrotto 303SPH pano head Manfrotto 756B tripod
An abandoned military building, probably built during World War II. Located near Fort Ward on Bainbridge Island. The artwork on the walls changes over the years, so I never know what I'll see when I visit this building, which is now part of Blakely Harbor ..
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Photo: John Aitchison
View of Downtown Seattle  
Seattle, Washington, USA
Lat: 47° 35' 40.94" N view map Long: 122° 19' 2.06" W
Date/Time: February, 2005
Equipment: Panoscan MKII, Mamiya 24mm Lens
This view of winter afternoon rainstorms closing in on downtown Seattle was taken from the 12th Street Jose P. Rizal Bridge. It is also one of the very few viewpoints of Seattle where one does not see the Space Needle! The large dark orange building at the top..
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Photo: Bradford Bohonus
New River Gorge Bridge  
Fayetteville, West Virginia, USA
Lat: 38° 4' 6.96" N view map Long: 81° 4' 57.36" W
Date/Time: Friday, July 22, 2005
Equipment: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm lens, PTMac, Cubic Converter
The world's second longest single-span steel arch bridge. Learn more about it here http://www.nps.gov/neri/bridge.htm..
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Photo: Ron Rack
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