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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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Chilehaus  
Hamburg, Germany
Lat: 53° 32' 53" N view map Long: 10° 0' 5" E
Date/Time: December 05, 2005 - 12.58
Equipment: 5 singelshots on a selfmade nodalpointadapter and 1 shot freehand to the bottom (ZENITH) for patching the tripod off. Hardware: Canon 300D with Sigma 8mm lens, selfmade nodalpointadapter, tripod Software: PanoTools, PtGui4, PhotoShop6 & pano2qtvr
Hmm...choosing my best VR-Pano of 2005 has been difficult... one of my favorites is this ... ;-) The Chilehaus represents the newer north German hard brick architecture. The slim unconventional building is one of Hamburg's most important historical monume..
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Photo: Bernd Dohrmann
Hohenzollern Castle - an Eagle's view from the Flag Tower  
Hechingen, Germany
Lat: 48° 19' 25" N view map Long: 8° 58' 6" E
Date/Time: June 11, 2005 - 3:45 pm local summer time
Equipment:
  • Nikon F3 with Nikkor 8mm Ai-S, very basic pole shot construction partly based on sturdy Novoflex equipment
  • four shots (left, up, right, down) on Fuji Reala negative film
  • Full 16 bit workflow with FlexColor, PTMac, XBlend, Photoshop
  • CubicConverter
So why is this panorama important enough to me to make it my "Best of 2005"? Simply because I had a wonderful weekend visiting friends in the vicinity, and this work also introduces some new equipment: it was my first panorama shot with a - read more -

Photo: Carl von Einem
Spinning Spirits  
Ahrtal, Germany
Lat: 50° 30' 49" N view map Long: 7° 2' 12" E
Date/Time: March 06 2005
Equipment: Nikon D70 + Nikon F-DX 10.5 /2.8G ED Fisheye
One of the wine cellars at the well-known 'Jakob Sebastian' winery (http://www.jakob-sebastian.de) in the beautiful Ahrtal near Bonn, Germany...
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Photo: Holger Fell
Erster Schnee  
Alt-Marienfelde, Berlin, Germany
Lat: 52° 24' 45" N view map Long: 13° 22' 0" E
Date/Time: December 26, 2005 -- approx. 13:00 MEZ (12:00 UTC)
Equipment: Seitz Roundshot Super 220 VR (mounted on an Arca Swiss Monoball head on a Linhof heavy duty pro tripod) | Schneider PC-Super-Angulon 2,8/28mm | f/22, 1/2 s | Ilford FP4 plus in Adox ATM 49 1:1, 10 min @ 20°C | Epson Perfection 3200 Photo | Epson Scan, Photoshop, QTVR Authoring Tools Suite, QTVR Authoring Studio, QuickTime Player
Photo: Martin Frech
Passiflora caerulea  
Mörfelden-Walldorf, Hessen, Germany
Lat: 50° 0' 20.88" N view map Long: 8° 34' 11.28" E
Date/Time: December 9th 2005, 5:41-6:26 pm CET
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000 with all parameters set to manual (shutter speed, aperture, whitebalance, distance); Kaidan Magellan QC-1 (object rig), modified for the Coolpix 5000. PaintShopPro for cutting the flower free, QuicktimePro and QTVR Edit Object for making the object movie.
Photo: Gabi Haindl
Forest in Winter  
Teutoburger Wald, Germany
Lat: 52° 19' 27" N view map Long: 8° 5' 16" E
Date/Time: December 2005
Equipment: Finepix S3 Pro, Nikon 10,5mm Fisheye
Photo: Helmut Koelbach
Buga2005 - Overview  
Munich, Germany
Lat: 48° 8' 11" N view map Long: 11° 43' 8" E
Date/Time: may the 28th 2005, 14.30
Equipment: eos d10 & 24 mm
This is a view over part of the German garden show 'Buga 2005' that happened all through the season. It was taken at the end of May, which means it was already early summer in Munich. At this time the weather can still be quite changeable - although no..
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Photo: Ingo Kohwagner
Inside Freiburger Münster Open-Work Spire  
Freiburg im Breisgau, south west corner of Germany
Lat: 47° 59' 45" N view map Long: 7° 51' 9" E
Date/Time: March 17, 2005 - 10:30 UTC (11.30 local time)
Equipment: Taken 13 images on Fuji Reala with a Zenitar 16mm Fisheye. Camera mounted on a monopod and held over the railing. Scanned with Nikon LS40 and stitched using autopano and PTGui. Postprocessed in Photoshop. Converted to cubic with pano2qtvr.
Photo: Erik Krause
Mönchbruch, Nature Protection Area  
Mönchbruch, near Mörfelden-Walldorf, Hessen, Germany
Lat: 49° 58' 45.09" N view map Long: 8° 30' 31.71" E
Date/Time: June 19th 2005, 5:00 pm CEST
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 990, Fisheye FC-E8, Manfrotto QTVR Kit, PTMac, MakeCubic.
Mönchbruch, a recreation area between Langen and Rüsselsheim, is made for hiking, jogging, and bicycle riding. Möchbruch is visited by the residents year-round. But this lovely place with the steamlet and the flanking trees is an insider tip...
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Photo: Joakim Löber
1st May in Berlin Kreuzberg  
Berlin, Germany
Lat: 52° 30' 2" N view map Long: 13° 25' 19" E
Date/Time: May 1, 2005
This is an impression of the 1st of May in Berlin Kreuzberg. Traditionally, several demonstrations take place on this day, and since 1987 they have been followed by riots. This ritual has more and more lost its political intention, and today most of the riotin..
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Photo: Oliver Mann
On the Summit of the Fellhorn  
A mountain near Oberstdorf, Germany
Lat: 47° 21' 01.66" N view map Long: 10° 13' 03.58" E
Date/Time: September 25, 2005 - 11:50 UTC (13:50 local time)
Equipment: Camera: Konica Minolta Dynax 7D Lens: Sigma 3,5/18mm Mounting: Tripod with ball-head Software: Panotools, PTGui, Autopano, Enblend, Photoshop CS 2, Pano2QTVR Pictures: 12 pictures @ 6MP
The summit of the Fellhorn is a summit in the southern part of the "Allgäuer Alpen&quo..
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Photo: Jürgen Matern
Gigantic Bird's Nest  
Buga 2005 in Munich, Germany
Lat: 48° 7' 49.18" N view map Long: 11° 41' 6.25" E
Date/Time: October 9, 2005 - 11:20 UTC (13:20 local time)
Equipment: Camera: Konica Minolta Dynax 7D Lens: Sigma 8mm Fisheye Mounting: Handheld monopod as a pole, custom panohead Software: Panotools, PTGui, Autopano, Smartblend, Gimp, Pano2QTVR Pictures: 8 pictures @ 45°, 2xZenith, 2xNadir
This is a shot I made on the last day of the "Bundesgartenschau" 2005 (BUGA 2005). This is an event held every two years in a German city. The BUGA is a federal horticultural show that lasts approximately half a year. Part of the show area will becom..
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Photo: Markus Matern
Inside a Dishwasher  
in my Kitchen, Pforzheim, Germany
Lat: 48° 52' 22" N view map Long: 8° 39' 57" E
Date/Time: June, 8, 9.56 UCT
Equipment: Sigma SD10, Sigma 8mm EX Fisheye, Manfrotto 303SPH Panohead, Berlebach mini tripod
Panoshooting in 2005 was for me personally to find the borders of what I can do, of things that are small and I can make a panorama of. Also to find out the maximum numbers of pictures I can handle for one panorama. This pano is from my miniature phase, where ..
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Photo: Thomas Mottl
Illuminated Park Benches  
Duesseldorf, Germany
Lat: 51° 13' 48" N view map Long: 6° 47' 4" E
Date/Time: 2005-10-14 / 18:00 local time
Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D70, Nikon 10.5mm fisheye, Manfrotto tripod 055PROB, Manfrotto 303SPH... Software: Panotools, PTGui, Pano2QTVRpro...
This VR panorama was taken in the court garden (Hofgarten) in Düsseldorf (Germany). It shows the art installation "UV-A UV-B" (by Stefan Sous) which consists of 14 illuminated park benches, built of plexiglass tubes and neon lamps. It was one of 30 ..
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Photo: Oliver Rennen
Peaceful Night  
Kurplatz in Bad Wildbad, Black Forest, Germany
Lat: 48° 45' 1" N view map Long: 8° 33' 2" E
Date/Time: December 29, 2005 - 18:00 UTC (19:00 local time)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 990 + WC-E24, selfmade panohead, PTGui, Photoshop, Pano2QTVR
A peaceful night between Christmas and Silvester...
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Photo: Thomas Rist
Schwabing Christmas Market  
Munich - Schwabing, Bavaria, Germany
Lat: 48° 9' 46" N view map Long: 11° 35' 12" E
Date/Time: Dec. 23, 2005, 17.00
Equipment: Nikon D-SLR, Nikkor 8mm, PTMac, PS-CS2, CubicConverter
The Schwabing Christmas Market Already in the early 1970’s a number of artists, who were to be found during the summer on the 'Art Mile' in the Leopold Street, began to show their work at the former Swiss House in the run up to Christmas. In 1975 the..
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Photo: Mario W. Schild
Schelinger Height  
Kaiserstuhl, Germany
Lat: 48° 6' 16" N view map Long: 7° 41' 58" E
Date/Time: 6 November 2005
Equipment: Pentax IST Ds, Pentax 14mm, handheld
The Kaiserstuhl is a small mountainous area in the Rhine valley west of Freiburg. It is of volcanic origin. Due to its mild climate it is a refuge for some Mediterranean animals and plants that are found nowhere else in Germany...
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Photo: Reinhard Schmolze
Inside Art - "The time is always now"  
Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany
Lat: 54° 18' 11" N view map Long: 9° 41' 19" E
Date/Time: April 16, 2005, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Equipment: Nikon CP 990 with FC-E8, F2-Modus, Kaidan QuickPan III CS, 5 pictures, each bracketed -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, HDRI created with Photomatix, stitched with PTGui/PanoTools, PhotoShop, Pano2QTVR
Inside Art - "The time is always now" With his work the artist Tamer Serbay, born in Turkey in 1947 and now living in Hamburg/Germany, does express the passing of time. The installation shown in the panorama is part of his exhibition "The time i..
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Photo: Holger Schulz
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