 The Original World Wide Panorama Event March 20, 2004 |
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Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 51' 51.1" N |
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Long: 4° 15' 6.5" W |
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15.34 GMT |
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Glasgow's Central Mosque and Islamic Centre is located on the south bank of the River Clyde within the Gorbals. The focal point for the estimated 30,000 Muslims in Glasgow and Strathclyde, it was completed in 1984 at a cost of £3 million and covers an ar..
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| Photo: Mark Boiling |
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Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 55° 51' 51.1" N |
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Long: 4° 15' 6.5" W |
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1630 GMT |
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Equipment: Nikon D100/Sigma 8mm/handheld/PanoTools/Realviz Stitcher |
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Shoppers heading home from this very busy shopping area as the afternoon comes to an end. It was a day of rain and broken sunshine, typical for this time of year...
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| Photo: Bill Ward |
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Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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| Lat: 57° 8' 31" N |
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Long: 2° 4' 10" W |
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13.30 GMT |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5000 with Nikon's FC-E8 fisheye, f8 at 1/60 second. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III. Stitched with PTMac. |
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Although not technically round, the Roundhouse is the navigation control centre for Aberdeen Harbour. Captured here on a dull and dreich spring equinox 2004...
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| Photo: Robin Wilson |
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Reunion Island
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| Lat: 21° 4' 35" S |
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Long: 55° 23' 24" E |
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local 6h50 am ; gmt 2h50 am |
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Equipment: Canon 1ds, fisheye full frame 15mm Canon, Manfrotto 302 head, ptmac. 8 images+top+bottom |
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One of my favorite spot on the island, just one hour drive and 5 minutes to walk. This panorama is a sort of time-lapse. When on location, I made 5 panos between 6h and 7h am. As long as we remain in the dark, there was a beautiful phenomenon : the shadow of t..
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| Photo: Romuald Vareuse |
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Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| Lat: 22° 27' 0" S |
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Long: 42° 43' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
03:08 PM local time (-3 hours UTC/GMT) |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Fisheye Lens Adapter FC-E8, Handheld, 8 photos, portrait mode, fullframe fisheye2 mode, white balance manually preset, manual exposure = 1/250 f-7.7, ISO 100, stitched in Photovista 1.0.1, saved as jpeg, open in Photoshop CS, made some adjustments in color, contrast, sharpness, and added a black stripe to top and to bottom, saved as PSD and taken to Make Cubic 1.1.6. File size: 560kb tiled: 2x2, compression: 39% photo-jpeg, fast-start added, HQ enabled. For the FULLSCREEN movie infos are= movie box: 780 x 500 pixels, file size: 1.8 mb, tiled: 3x3, compression: 39% photo-jpeg, fast-start added, HQ enabled. |
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Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is one of the most famous beaches in Rio. Why? Well: "Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking ..." The famous song that is known all over the world came from here. Together with Copacaba..
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| Photo: AYRTON |
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Curitiba, Parana, Brasil
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| Lat: 25° 25' 49.8" S |
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Long: 49° 17' 4.2" W |
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Local Time 11:40 AM |
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Equipment: Coolpix 4500+FC-E8, handheld, stitched with PTGui, masks edited with PS CS, converted to QuickTime with Panocube. |
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"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"
"A speaker's corner created in 1957 and made well-known on December 13, 1966. One of its founders, Anfrísio Siqueira, is its president for life. Powerful and chauvinistic, it has become famous since it was cred..
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| Photo: Rodolpho Pajuaba |
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Plaza los HĂ©roes, Rancagua City, Chile
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| Lat: 34° 10' 11" S |
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Long: 70° 44' 23" W |
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| Date/Time: |
9:25 am |
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Equipment: Taken with a Canon EOS500, Sigma 8mm, f11 at 1/250 second. Mounted on Homemade panohead. Stitched with Panorama Tools. |
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La Plaza de Rancagua, ubica al monumento en memoria del libertador Chileno Bernardo Ohiggins.
Conmemora el Desastre de Rancagua del 1 y 2 de Octubre de 1814...
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| Photo: Patricio Armijo |
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Volcán Irazú, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica
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| Lat: 9° 59' 0" N |
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Long: 83° 51' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11:30 AM, CST |
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Equipment: Olympus C-5050 Zoom, standard lens, hand-held, RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop, CubicConverter |
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This is the main lookout over the Cráter Principal, the bottom of which is 300 meters below. On March 13, 1963, coinciding with the visit by U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Volcán Irazú began a marked period of activity, erupting ash and ..
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| Photo: Ryan E. Galt |
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Guillermo's, Bahia de los Angeles, Baja California, MĂ©xico
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| Lat: 28° 55' 0" N |
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Long: 113° 33' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
3 pm PST |
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Equipment: Taken with an Olympus E-1 digital SLR, 14-104mm 2.8 lens at 14mm (equivalent to 28mm), f11 at 1/250 second. Mounted on a Kaidan QuickPan III Pro. Stitched with Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Studio. |
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All day on the Equinox I was thinking of photographers around the world making VR panoramas. Landis Bennett, Kat Kalamaras and I were on the fourth day of a two week camping trip the length of Baja California, Mexico. We started that day in the Deseierto Centr..
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| Photo: G. Donald Bain |
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Ciudad Universitaria (University City), Ciudad de MĂ©xico, MĂ©xico
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| Lat: 19° 18' 51.5" N |
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Long: 99° 10' 34.3" W |
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| Date/Time: |
2:30 PM local time CST |
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Equipment: Nikon Coolpix 4500/Nikon Wide Converter WC-E63 0.63x/QuicklyQTcubic agno's head/Realviz Stitcher 3.5 - CubiConverter 2.0.4 - CubicConnector 2.0.6/Manfrotto 3021BPro tripod/1Gb Microdrive IBM/Macintosh Powerbook G4 17" |
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Puerto Chapala, Baja California (Norte), MĂ©xico
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| Lat: 29° 19' 40" N |
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Long: 114° 18' 33" W |
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| Date/Time: |
12:15 PST (20:15 UTC) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 18mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: QTVR Authoring Studio, Photoshop, Kekus PanoTools, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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MĂ©xico's Baja Peninsula has one major road to take you from the US border all the way to Cabo San Lucas at the southern tip: Mex-1, The Transpeninsular Highway. Its construction was completed in 1973 and it immediately became the life line for the Baja P..
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| Photo: Landis Bennett |
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Ciudad Universitaria (University City), Distrito Federal, MĂ©xico
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| Lat: 19° 25' 37.6" N |
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Long: 99° 7' 39.4" W |
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| Date/Time: |
11:40 A.M. - Local Time (México City) |
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Equipment: Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera and the FC-E8 fisheye lens in full frame mode.Mounted on a Kaidan Kiwi 990. Stitched with Panorama Tools, PTGui and Adobe Photoshop.Self made Windows software for QuickTime VR conversion. |
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Plaza Hidalgo in Coyoacán, México City, México.
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| Lat: 19° 0' 0" N |
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Long: 99° 0' 0" W |
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8:45 A.M. local time (14:45 GMT) |
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Equipment: Sony Cybershot DSC-S85, with a Raynox DCR-FE180PRO adapter, custom made pano head, stiched in PTMAC, retouched in Photoshop CS and Make Cubic. |
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Coyoacán is one of Mexico City's "delegaciones" (or counties). It's name mean "Place owned by Coyotes". It's the location where the first goverment of "Nueva España" was located. The Plaza Hidalgo is the main plaza of this delegación...
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| Photo: Aura Castro y Felipe González |
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Near Cataviña, Baja California, México
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| Lat: 29° 45' 50.46" N |
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Long: 114° 45' 10.08" W |
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| Date/Time: |
08:00 PST (16:00 UTC) |
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Equipment: Hardware: Nikon D100, Nikkor 18mm Lens, Kaidan QuickPan III Spherical
Software: RealViz Stitcher, Photoshop, Kekus PanoTools, QT Player Pro, VRPrep |
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Just north of the small town of Cataviña off the Transpeninsular highway in Baja California, is where this panorama was taken. I think it is one of the most beautiful desert areas I have visited. I was completely entranced by the giant cardón c..
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| Photo: Kat Kalamaras |
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View of the Avila Mountain from Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
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| Lat: 10° 30' 0" N |
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Long: 66° 53' 0" W |
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| Date/Time: |
6:16 pm (20:16 UTC) |
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Equipment: Six shots taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995 and FC-8 Fisheye adapter in FE2 mode, f/7.7 at 1/60 sec. Manfrotto tripod and Manfrotto 302 Plus Pano Head. Stitched with PTools on a Mac. Edited and retouched with Photoshop 6. Published as Cubic with MakeCubic and QuickTime 6.0.3 Pro |
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A view of the eastern part of the city of Caracas and its main landmark, the Cerro el Avila mountain, a National Park which stands between the town and the Caribbean Sea, as seen from the Chacao district. The highest peak reaches 2,765 mts. above sea level and..
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| Photo: Orlando Palencia |
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Tzfat, Israel
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| Lat: 32° 0' 0" N |
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Long: 35° 0' 0" E |
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| Date/Time: |
10 PM (GMT +2) |
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Equipment: Nikon D100, Sigma 8mm Fisheye, Kaidan QP3, PTMac, Photoshop, Cubic Converter. |
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Panorama at the grave of Rabbi Issac Luria (the Ari HaKadosh), Kabbalist; 1534-1572. The Ari founded a new school of Mysticism which exerted a profound influence on the Jewish world and formed the basis for much Hasidic thought. He wrote, "It is good to sing;'..
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| Photo: Andy Alpern |
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Dubai International Marine Club, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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| Lat: 25° 5' 13" N |
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Long: 55° 8' 26" E |
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| Date/Time: |
5:00 Pm (GMT +4) |
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Equipment: Taken with an Canon EOS10D digital SLR, Coastal Optics 7.5mm with 1.4x Canon extender (equivalent to 10.5mm), f.5.6 at 1/500 seconds on RAW. Mounted on a self-designed pano-head. Stitched with PanoTools of Helmut Dersch on PTGUI and cubed using Panocube Pro. |
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Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA
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| Lat: 21° 16' 26.4" N |
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Long: 157° 49' 26" W |
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| Date/Time: |
7:00AM (UTC/GMT -10) |
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Equipment: Sony F717, lens x0.7 VCL-MHG07, Bogen 3415 Pano head |
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Duke Paoa Kahanamoku lived from 1890-1968. He was born and raised in Waikiki and was a full-blooded Hawaiian, representing the culture to millions of people.
A descendant of Hawaiian royalty, Duke is considered to not only Hawaii's greatest athlete, but also ..
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| Photo: Dean Karamehmedovic |
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