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The Original World Wide Panorama Event March 20, 2004
The Original World Wide Panorama Event March 20, 2004

On Saturday, March 20, more than 180 photographers in 40 countries around the world celebrated the Equinox by creating VR panoramas. This site showcases the results of their efforts.

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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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View from a Hill  
Springdale Heights, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Lat: 36° 2' 37" S Long: 146° 55' 11" E
Date/Time: 9:20am local time
Equipment: Olympus E10, wide angle adapter, hand held, digital, Panotools Photoshop plug-ins, QTVRAS (cylinder) and CubicConverter (cubic)
1.2mm of rain since January, and things are getting dry ... Saturday March 20th was a beautiful day in Oz, at least in the south eastern corner :-) Early autumn, and a balmy 20°C up at our ranch near Albury for the first equinox shoot. The panoramic view ..
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Photo: Kathy Wheeler
Lights at the Volksprater  
The Prater (Park), Vienna, Austria
Lat: 48° 13' 1.2" N Long: 16° 23' 56.4" E
Date/Time: 18:45 CEST
Equipment: Fuji S2 Pro, Sigma 8mm Fisheye with custom built pano-head Stitched with PTGui 3.6b1 + Autopano Post Processing with Enblend, Neatimage, QTVR: Panocube
The whole day was dark and grey. I went to the Prater - Vienna's well known entertainment park - to capture some colour for the beginning of spring... The day began to fade and I still hadn't found what I was looking for. - Until I came to this place at the 'V..
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Photo: Bernhard Vogl
Walzer Dream  
Strauss Memorial at Centralpark (Stadtpark), Vienna, Austria
Lat: 48° 12' 12" N Long: 16° 22' 46" E
Date/Time: 17:59 Berlin, Vienna, Rome
Equipment: camera eos d30, lens nikkor 8/2.8 fisheye, manfrotto 302 with kaidan spherical mount, panotools, photoshop, neatimage
Dusk at the central park of Vienna...
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Photo: Peter Winkler
Halleluja  
Between Grand Place and Central Station, Brussels, Belgium
Lat: 50° 50' 47" N Long: 4° 21' 15" E
Date/Time: 11 a.m. GMT
Equipment: D1x, 10.5mm Nikkor, Manfrotto 303 SPH, Mac G4 powerbook, PhotoShop, Realviz Stitcher, Nikon Capture Editor
Started this typical-belgian-weather-in-november day early, running around town, looking for a break... This truck is part of Brussels' cityscape a rare exeption to our otherwise conservative car-parc. It's Creator-Driver was at the anti-war rally spreading th..
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Photo: Serge Gutwirth
The "Place Saint-Lambert" by Night  
Saint-Lambert Place, Liège, Belgium
Lat: 50° 38' 43" N Long: 5° 34' 26" E
Date/Time: 09:33 PM (GMT + 1 hour)
Equipment: Taken with a Minolta Dimage 7Hi digital camera, 28-200 mm 2.8 lens at 28 mm (equiv. 135) at 0"7 second. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan Spherical Arm on Manfrotto QTVR Kit 302 Head and Tripod. Stitched with Realviz Stitcher 4.0.1
"Place Saint-Lambert" constitutes the historical heart of the city of Liège. Until the beginning of the 19th century, it was occupied by several cathedrals successively destroyed and rebuilt. The latest was burned out in 1789 and cleared out in 1821. In..
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Photo: Alain Hamblenne
Adèle's 9th Birthday  
Ruelle Mathias, Avennes, Belgium
Lat: 50° 40' 0" N Long: 5° 5' 0" E
Date/Time: 04:31 pm CET (GMT+1)
Equipment: taken with a Nikon D100, Nikkor 10.5mm f 2.8; ISO 400 f 6.3 1/13 sec. Kiwi+ panohead, stitched with PTMac
For me the 20th of March is not the equinox, not the war on Irak and the peace demonstrations, or the sarin gas attack on Tokyo, it's my daughter Adèle's birthday ! It was a challenge to get just half of this wild gang participating for a minute in the..
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Photo: Mickael Therer
Ayias Elias  
Voroklini, Cyprus
Lat: 34° 58' 60" N Long: 33° 39' 30" E
Date/Time: 14:00 local time (=12:00 GMT)
Equipment: Taken with a Kodak DX3900, digital camera, at the equivalent of 35 mm. Mounted on a tripod but without any pano-head. Stitched with VRWorx 2.5

The VR opens at Ayias Elias, which means "the church dedicated to the prophet Elias". It stands on the small plateau of Gerakomouttil overlooking the original Cypriot village of Voroklini with Larnaka Bay as the backdrop.

Turning clockwise w..
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Photo: Norma Boylan
Pusher Street Was Here  
Christiania, Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lat: 55° 40' 24" N Long: 12° 35' 54" E
Date/Time: 09:00 CET (GMT +1)
Equipment: Nikon D100/Sigma 8mm/Manfrotto VR head
Pusher Street, Christiania, Copenhagen. Cristiania is being 'normalized' by the right wing Danish government...
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Photo: Hans Christian Asmussen
Vegetable Market  
Ingerslev Boulvard, Aarhus, Denmark
Lat: 56° 8' 43.4" N Long: 10° 11' 53.7" E
Date/Time: 12:25 (GMT +1:00)
Equipment: Nikon D70 / Peleng 8mm Fiseye / f11 / 1/200 sec / iso 200 / Handheld / 4+2 shots / Panotools-Photoshop-Panocube Pro
After a week with almost summerly temperature a cold rainstorm hit Denmark friday night, but luckily the first part of saturday the weather got better with enough blue sky and stormy clouds between the rain. So after a short hailstorm I manage to make my shot ..
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Photo: Flemming V. Larsen
Poskær Stenhus Denmark - A megalithic Stone Circle and Dolmen (Cromlech)  
Djursland, Denmark
Lat: 56° 13' 23" N Long: 10° 30' 39" E
Date/Time: 14.00 CEST GMT+1
Equipment: Canon D60/Sigma 8mm/f9.5 1/350 sec/homemade panohead/Stitched with Kekus Panotools Plugin+Photoshop CS/CubicConverter
Stonehenge is said to be aligned with the rising sun of the summer Equinox and many other stone circles are believed to have been constructed in similar ways. True or not, the fact is that at Spring Equinox you will see the sun rice above the hills if you look..
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Photo: Hans Nyberg
View of Tallinn City  
Viewing platform at Kohtu street, Tallinn, Estonia
Lat: 59° 26' 15" N Long: 24° 44' 32" E
Date/Time: 12:30 PM (GMT +2)
Equipment: Taken with an Canon 300D digital SLR, Sigma Fisheye 8mm. Mounted on a Manfrotto 303SPH. Stitched with Panorama Tools.
Little known gems are often the most precious and alluring. Estonia's ancient seacoast capital is just that kind of jewel. Tallinn, which at one time or another has fallen under Danish, German, Swedish or Czarist Russian rule, has retained more remnants of its..
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Photo: Andrei Bodrov
Helsinki Shoreline  
Off the southern coast of Helsinki, Finland
Lat: 60° 9' 12" N Long: 24° 57' 24" E
Date/Time: 8:39 am Local time (UTC +2 hours)
Equipment: Fuji S2Pro, 10,5mm Nikkor, f8 at 1/30 100 ISO, PTMac.
This panorama was taken on the frozen Gulf of Finland. The wooden walkway leads to ice road between Kaivopuisto Park and Harakka island...
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Photo: Juhani Laiho
Ruins of Château de Crussol  
St. Péray in the Rhône Valley, Ardèche, France
Lat: 44° 56' 27" N Long: 4° 51' 3" E
Date/Time: 2.30 PM (local), 1:30 PM (GMT)
Equipment: Coolpix 880, 24mm adapter, Manafrotto tripod and pan head, PTgui / Panotools and PanocubePlus. This pano required 44 shots. After a blending process it gave 16 images in 2 rows + Zenith and Nadir
Classified Historic building since 1927, the ruins of the fortress of Crussol occupy the top of a piton of rocks limestones to 360 meters of altitude (1181 feet). Dominating the Rhône Valley and the plain of Valence, a cliff of 250 meters (820 feet) ensu..
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Photo: Guillaume Fulchiron
Triste Equinoxe  
Foret de Rambouillet-Yvelines, France
Lat: 48° 38' 34.8" N Long: 1° 49' 32.9" E
Date/Time: 16H30 (GMT+1)
Equipment: NIKON D1X-10,5MM-CUSTOM HEAD
Photo: Denis Gliksman
The Princess Diana's Flame, the Alma bridge, the Eiffel tower and Around  
Paris, France
Lat: 48° 51' 24.5" N Long: 2° 21' 4" E
Date/Time: 07h00 PM
Equipment: Eos - Manfrotto - Realviz Stitcher
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Photo: Eric Rougier and Abia Durant
Cannes By Night  
Cannes, France
Lat: 43° 33' 3.2" N Long: 7° 0' 38.2" E
Equipment: Taken with Nikon Coolpix 4500, FC-e8 fisheye adaptor, ultra light Manfrotto tripod 714SHB + L-bracket. Mounted with PTGui/Panotools.
Just between the "Splendid" and the Casino, a simple telephonic cabin reminds you this is the "Cannes Film Festival" town. This is the "Square Merimee", and the large avenue is the famous "Croisette"...
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Photo: Cédric Simon
Last Equinox for the Factory-Ship  
Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France
Lat: 48° 50' 02" N Long: 2° 14' 36" E
Date/Time: 17:39 pm GMT+1
Equipment: Taken with an Coolpix 5000 , WC-E68 (equivalent to 18mm), f.8 at 1/30 second. Mounted on a home made head. Stitched with Realviz Stitcher 4.0.1.
When you see this panorama, the destruction works will have begin yet. - 1992. The Renault Factory on Seguin Island is closing: a symbolical event in industrial and social history in France. Renault-Billancourt impressed upon the collective memory of the labou..
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Photo: Laurent Thion
Le Chateau de Montségur  
Castle of Montségur, Ariège, France
Lat: 42° 52' 16" N Long: 1° 50' 3" E
Date/Time: 09:45 (France)
Equipment: Canon EOS 300D + Canon 17/40 f:4 L tripod Manfrotto 190 + Agno's Quickly QTCubic Stitcher 4 + Photoshop CS
The Castle of Montségur (Ariège – France) it's the symbol of the memory Cathare. Located in the "Pyrénées Ariégeoises", with 1207 meters of altitude (on a hill called "the pog"), he's the witness..
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Photo: Gilles Vidal
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