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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.

Click to view other WWP events:
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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Market Place in Esslingen  
Marktplatz, Esslingen, Germany
Lat: 48° 44' 57" N Long: 9° 18' 41" E
Date/Time: 10:59 a.m MEZ
Equipment: Canon 1Ds, Sigma 8mm, 4 shots, f8 at 1/250 second exposed for the sky in RAW format on a monopod. 2 exposures +-2 from each shot were extracted and blended in PS. Stiched with PTGUI.
Todays market place was until 1811 the site of St.Kathrin Hospital, the 1st Hospital of the City of Esslingen. It has been used since then and until today for a Farmers Market on Wednesday's and Saturday's and events throughout the year. On the south side of t..
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Photo: Milko Amorth
Staufen i.Br., Southwest of Germany  
Southwestern Germany, near the border between France and Switzerland
Lat: 47° 52' 0" N Long: 7° 43' 0" E
Date/Time: 7.41 pm met
Equipment: SpheroCam/16 mm fisheye
The Spring Equinox on march 20th 2004 was a very stormy, rainy and cloudy day in Southwest Germany. As there was no chance to get a splendid picture of the Black Forest mountains, I stayed at home in Staufen and waited for the weather clearing up usually in th..
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Photo: Mirek D. Duda
The Saviour's Willow  
Berlin, Germany
Lat: 52° 24' 56.4" N Long: 13° 22' 20.4" E
Date/Time: 10:30 UTC
Equipment: Roundshot Super-220 VR with stereo head, 2 x Nikon 1.8/50 mm on Fuji Provia 400 F - f22, 1/30 s

One autumn night an old man appeared at the homestead on the King's Fosse and asked for work as a shepherd. The owner wanted to send the uninvited guest away, but his wife prevailed and he was taken on. The taciturn old man owned nothing but a willow cane. ..
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Photo: Martin Frech
Three Countries in One Shot and the Alps  
Meersburg, Lake Constance, Germany
Lat: 47° 41' 39.1" N Long: 9° 16' 6.6" E
Date/Time: 04.00 PM
Equipment: Nikon 5000, Manfrotto, stitched with PTGUI
Scene taken at Meersburg at the lake of Constance. You see the city and the alps. Left to the flags there is Austria, right to to flags you can see Switzerland. All other is in Germany. What a pity that the sun didn't shine on this day. Maybe on the next equin..
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Photo: Michael Hansky
Bad Wildbad - Thermal Water and Modern Transportation  
Bad Wildbad, Black Forrest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lat: 48° 45' 0" N Long: 8° 33' 2" E
Date/Time: 11:39 local time (10:39 UTC)
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990, FC E-8 fisheye, zoomed in, f.4,8 at 1/125 second at ISO 100. Mounted on a selfmade VR-head. Four shot round, plus zenith and nadair. Extra exposures for the sky. Software used for this panorama: Photoshop, NeatImage, PtGui with PanoTools and PanoCUBE Plus.
The weather was cold and stormy at Bad Wildbad this March 20. The thermal water that wells out of the spring is 39° Celsius. The thermal wells in the valley of the Enz are known since the 14th century. The yellow building is a former thermal spa, named aft..
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Photo: Thomas Rist
Flowering of Crocusses in Husum, Northern Germany  
Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Lat: 54° 28' 53" N Long: 9° 3' 0" E
Date/Time: 11:00 am UTC
Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 990, FC-E8 fisheye converter, F2 modus, 5 images. Camera mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III CS. Stitched with PanoramaTools, PTGui.
Every spring more than 4 million crocusses (Crocus napolitanus) are flowering in the Gardens around the castle of Husum. This is unique in Northern Europe. The crocusses probably were planted in the 15th century by the monks who then lived at this place. They ..
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Photo: Holger Schulz
My Little Cellar  
Essen, Germany
Lat: 51° 27' 6" N Long: 6° 57' 43" E
Date/Time: 15:37 (GMT +01:00)
Equipment: Taken with Canon D60, Sigma 8mm, selfbuild Nodalpointadapter
The weather was too bad that special day, so i decided to make a cubic that I wanted to do for a long time: "My little cellar". It maybe is a little bit claustrophobic. ;-)..
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Photo: Tom! Striewisch
The Herauems Promontory Lighthouse  
Near the Archaelogical Place of Hareum, Korinthos, Greece
Lat: 38° 1' 45" N Long: 22° 51' 29" E
Date/Time: 18:40 Athens Greece
Equipment: Canon EOS 1 camera / Sigma lens / Hand held panorama / Fuji, slide film, 200 ASA / f4.0 1/30 second / Stitched with Panotools & Photoshop
The Lighthouse of the Herauem* promontory (korinthian Gulf), in Greece *Heraum (Temple of the ancient Greek goddess Hera)..
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Photo: George Kountouris
Chain Bridge at the Equinox  
Budapest, Hungary
Lat: 47° 29' 54" N Long: 19° 2' 31" E
Date/Time: 20:49 CET (Central European Time)
Equipment: Canon DRebel, Canon 15mm
One of the most known landmarks of Budapest, capital of Hungary is the 375 meter long and 16 meter wide Chain Bridge that connects the hilly Buda with the flat Pest side of the city. Panorama photo wasn't taken in ideal lighting conditions due to cloudy skythe..
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Photo: Tamas D.Varga
Spring in Rome  
Via di Salone, Rome, Italy
Lat: 41° 54' 55" N Long: 12° 38' 5" E
Date/Time: 12:45
Equipment: Taken with a Fuji s2 pro and an 8mm lens. Stitched with PTMac
The Romani camp in Via di Salone is on the extreme eastern side of Rome. Here, beside a Council camp for Slav gypsies, a sort of spontaneous settlement of Rumanian Romani gypsies has developed. The population varies between 800 and 1200. There is no electricit..
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Photo: Toni Garbasso
Sacra di San Michele  
Piemonte (not far from the French border), Italy
Lat: 45° 6' 0" N Long: 7° 12' 0" E
Date/Time: 11.45am (GMT +1)
Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 5000 at wide angle (28 mm eq), portrait orientation, tripod. Stitched with The Panorama Factory.
This is a 1000 years old abbey. It lies on the top of a low mountain overlooking the Susa valley, the main road link between Italy and France across the Alps. You can click here to see t..
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Photo: Fulvio Senore
Where Manchild Comes to Drink  
Burger's Zoo, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Lat: 51° 58' 48" N Long: 5° 55' 12" E
Date/Time: 12:30 CET
Equipment: Hardware: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm Fisheye, Handheld Software: PTGUI/Panotools, Photoshop, CubicConverter, Quicktime PRO
A proud grandfather and grandmother watch, as their grandchild sits down at the water. They enjoy the a moment of piece and quiet in what seems a thick jungle... In reality the panorama was taken inside a - read more -

Photo: Aldo Hoeben
Polder Landscape with IJssel Dike  
IJsseldijk Marle, Gelderland, the Netherlands
Lat: 52° 24' 30" N Long: 6° 8' 7" E
Date/Time: 14.30 pm
Equipment: Camera: Canon EOS 10D, Lens: Sigma 8mm Fisheye, Shutter speed: 1/200, Aperture value: 9.0, ISO speed: 200, Pan Head: self made panhead mounted on a Manfrotto tripod, Software: PTMac with Photoshop
It was rainy with low clouds. Clouds of all kinds belong to the Dutch landscape. Without clouds the landscape has no depth. The river IJssel in this panorama is only a thin line on the horizon. Generally at the end of winter or after a sustained period of heav..
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Photo: Gerard Kuster
Windy Day  
Almere Pampus, the Netherlands
Lat: 52° 22' 1.2" N Long: 5° 15' 41.4" E
Date/Time: 5:18 pm (CET)
Equipment: FujiFilm Finepix S2Pro/Sigma 8mm/Photoshop, PanoTools, PhotoVista,MakePanorama
In the evening the rain stoped but the storm was still strong. I could not move the car away because otherwise the wind would have blown over the tripod with the heavy S2Pro camera. On the panorama you can see the 10 wind turbines (1,65 MW each) of Almere Pamp..
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Photo: Harald Walker
20th of March, the day that former Queen Juliana of The Netherlands died  
Paleis Soestdijk, Soest, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Lat: 52° 9' 0" N Long: 5° 17' 0" E
Date/Time: 15.30 local time
Equipment: Seitz Roundshot 220 VR, 15 mm Nikon, Kodak Portra 160 NC, Flextight scanner, Photoshop, QTVRS
On the 20th of March the former Queen of the Netherlands, Juliana of Oranje-Nassau died from pneumonia combined with a general deterioration in her health. The picture is taken in front of the castle where she lived and people paid her respect by visiting and ..
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Photo: Jan van der Woning
The View from Ustetind  
Ustetind, Norway
Lat: 60° 27' 30.89" N Long: 8° 5' 24.5" E
Date/Time: 17.39.06-17.40.56, Local time (GMT+1 hour)
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm, stitched with PTMac.
The view from the top of Ustetind, 1376 meters above sea level. As the sun sets in the west on this spring equinox, the time of capture gives viewers a compass for other landmarks: To the south lies the vast Hardangervidda mountain plateau with Gaustatoppen in..
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Photo: Are Flågan
The Mythological Entrance into the Underground - Pluto's Hades?  
Skocjan Caves Park, Karst, Slovenia
Lat: 45° 39' 58" N Long: 13° 59' 38" E
Date/Time: 11:30 - local time +1
Equipment: Nikon D2H, 10.5 mm 'fisheye' , Manfrotto QTVR head, Photo Vista, GPS Magellan 315
The River Reka disappears underground in Velika dolina into Skocjan Caves Park and then flows underground 34 km, all the way to the Adriatic Sea where it becomes the source of the Timav River. The view of the big river, in the rainy season as it disappears un..
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Photo: Boštjan Burger
Good Morning Med - 1st Spring Morning 2004  
Carabassi Beach, Southeast Mediterranean Coast, Elx, Spain
Lat: 38° 15' 34.2" N Long: 0° 42' 25.6" W
Date/Time: 9:03 am local time (GMT +1:00)
Equipment: Canon 10D - Sigma 8mm - f.16 at 1/350, iso 100, raw - manfrotto tripod and vr head - Photoshop, PTGui, Panotools, Photoshop, Panocube.
The first spring morning of 2004 at one of my favourite local beaches at the Mediterranean coast. It was early in the morning and the sun was still quite low. We were lucky at this spot of the world and had a beautiful clear day...
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Photo: Antonio Victor Garcia-Serrano
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