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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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Lonsdale Quay  
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lat: 49° 19' 16" N Long: 123° 4' 21" W
Date/Time: 5:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time)
Equipment: Canon D60/16mm/Kaidan QPS1/Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Suite
An incredible public food market complete with gift shops, fashion boutiques, cafes, restaurants, and even a hotel, all minutes from downtown Vancouver by the SeaBus across Burrard Inlet. Located on the water at the foot of Lonsdale Ave...
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Photo: Charles Ed Aguilar
Desolation Sound From Cortes Island  
Cortes Island in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada
Lat: 50° 4' 2.6" N Long: 124° 56' 26.2" W
Date/Time: 11:30am Pacific time zone
Equipment: Image Rollovers created with VRHotwires.
Cortes Island is located at the north end of the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the mainland, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. This pano was shot from the east side of Cortes, looking out to Desolation Sound and t..
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Photo: Irene Blueth
Niagara at Spring  
View of Niagara Falls, New York, USA, from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Lat: 43° 5' 7.21" N Long: 79° 4' 33.83" W
Date/Time: 1pm Eastern Time
Equipment: Nikon D100/Sigma 24-70mm/Jasper Panoramic Head/QTVRAS.
NiagaraDowntown.com..
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Photo: James Neiss
Sugaring off in the Eastern Townships -Partie de Sucre, Cantons de l'Est  
Hatley, Eastern Townships of Québec, Canada
Lat: 45° 11' 0" N Long: 71° 53' 0" W
Date/Time: 2:45 pm EST
Equipment: Canon Rebel with Sigma 8mm lens, ISO 200, f8.0 1/400 sec., 4 shots handheld, RAW format, extracted using Canon File Viewer, stitched with PTMac.
A great tradition at this time of year in the Eastern Townships, as well as in other maple-syrup producing regions of Canada and the U.S., is the "sugaring off" party. Most of the sugar camps are family owned and operated. On a nice day families and friends g..
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Photo: David Gibson
Montreal Old Port Viewed from the Top of a Cargo Boat  
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lat: 45° 30' 31.7" N Long: 73° 33' 14.8" W
This pano was taken under very cold conditions but gives an incredible and ephemeral Montreal's point of view.

It was here that the city and the port came to life more than 350 years ago.

T..
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Photo: Yann Leroy
Qu'Appelle Valley  
Lebret, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lat: 50° 45' 0" N Long: 103° 47' 0" W
Date/Time: 07:32 CST
Equipment: Nikon coolpix 4500 with FC-E8 0.21x fisheye converter. AE Lock on Panorama Assist mode. Stitched using PTMac and CubicConverter on Mac OSX.
The Qu'appelle Valley is an ancient glacial meltwater spillway, now a series of mile-wide valleys in the middle of the otherwise unbroken flat prairie of Saskatchewan, Canada. Within the meandering basin flows the Qu'Appelle river, snaking back and forth from ..
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Photo: David Gerhard
Desert Botanical Garden, Wildflower Garden #1  
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Lat: 33° 27' 41.5" N Long: 111° 56' 43.5" W
Date/Time: 10am, MST
Equipment: CP990, fisheye lens, Peace River 3Sixty head
Desert Botanical Garden, Wildflower Garden #1..
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Photo: Michael Sigmon Fallai
Extended Spectrum Oak Tree  
Malibu Canyon Open Space Reserve, Calabasas, California, USA
Lat: 34° 10' 23.5" N Long: 118° 42' 13.2" W
Date/Time: Local Time 15:31 Pacific
Equipment: Panoscan MK-2 24mm Mamiya Fisheye. ISO 400 1/160th sec/line F8.0 Hoya U-330 filter.
This cubic panorama was captured using a Panoscan MK-2 camera fitted with a special filter to pass only infra-red and ultra-violet light. The resulting image shows the extended spectrum beyond the visible range of the human eye. This image has been reduced t..
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Photo: Ted Chavalas
First planting of the Medicine Garden at Proyecto Jardin  
East Los Angeles, California, USA
Lat: 34° 3' 14.8" N Long: 118° 14' 29.8" W
Date/Time: 1PM Pacific time
Equipment: Fuji S2, Sigma 8mm, Bogen 3415 Pano Head
This is the first planting of the medicine garden here at Proyecto Jardin, a community garden in East Los Angeles. The garden is located in a very urban neiborhood and leased from White Memorial Medical Center. Most community gardens are separate plots but thi..
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Photo: Robert C. Fisher
Balboa Park, Cherry Blossom Trees. Equinox 2004  
Balboa Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lat: 34° 10' 55" N Long: 118° 29' 49" W
Date/Time: 4:30 p.m. PST
Equipment: Fuji S2 - 10.5 DX Fisheye Lens - Peace River Pan Head - Delivrator.
Photo: Janie Fitzgerald
Pigeon Point Light Station, San Mateo Coast  
Pigeon Point, San Mateo Coast, California, USA
Lat: 37° 10' 59" N Long: 122° 23' 16" W
Date/Time: 15:00PM PST
Equipment: 28mm lens on Nikon N90s with Kodak 100UC film, homemade panhead, QTVRAS.
After 12 or 13 days of record-breaking summer temps and sunny clear days, the first day of spring on the San Mateo County coastline featured a marine layer which would not go away except for a sporadic sunbreak at Pescadero Beach. I drove the entire coastline ..
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Photo: Erik Goetze
Boo on the Ridge, Marin County, California  
San Anselmo, Marin County, California, USA
Lat: 37° 58' 27.1" N Long: 122° 33' 42.5" W
Date/Time: 8:40am PST
Equipment: Fuji FinePix S2 Pro with 20mm F2.8 Nikkor lens. Hand held. Stitched with Apple QTVR Authoring Studio.
My dog, Boo, atop a rock on our morning walk along the Terra Linda Ridge fire trail in San Anselmo, Marin County, California...
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Photo: John Greenleigh
Omenoku Point  
Trinidad State Park, California, USA
Lat: 41° 3' 38.5" N Long: 124° 8' 52.8" W
Equipment: CoolPix 995; simple tripod; Photoshop LE; MakePanorama2 (freeware); no stitchware!
Unseasonably warm sunny weather; a very light fog; a crouch through the bushes to get out to the point. There were a few surfers in the cove; the waves were about two and a half feet; the water is cold. The panorama begins with a view of Pewetole Island and T..
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Photo: Stephen Hamilton
San Francisco at Sunrise - Spring Equinox, 2004  
San Francisco from Treasure Island, California, USA
Lat: 37° 49' 0" N Long: 122° 22' 0" W
Date/Time: About 6:00 a.m. local (PST)
Equipment: Kodak DCS460 digital camera, Nikkor 105mm lens, Manfrotto 303SPH pan head, QuickTime VR Authoring Studio (Apple) & Photoshop (Adobe)
Photo: Scott Highton
March for Peace, Hollywood  
The intersection of Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, California, USA.
Lat: 34° 6' 24.05" N Long: 118° 19' 17.22" W
Date/Time: 12:54:58 Pacific Standard Time (-8 GMT)
Equipment: Canon EOS-10D, Sigma 8mm, Stitcher 4
At Hollywood and Vine, thousands turn out to demonstrate their opposition to the Bush Administration's aggressive foreign policy...
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Photo: Roger Howard
View from the Coast Hotel in Long Beach  
Long Beach, California, USA
Lat: 33° 46' 31.1" N Long: 118° 11' 22.2" W
Date/Time: 3:50 PM PST
Equipment: Captured using a Sigma 14mm on a Nikon N90s body with a Kaidan QPS-1 spherical panhead as a multi-row cubic. 6 images at +50 degree pitch, 12 images at 0 degree pitch, 6 images at -25 degree pitch, and 1 images straight down to cover tripod cap. Shot on Agfa Utra 100 film, 1/80 sec @ f/16. Scanned with Nikon LS-2000 film scanner, prepared in Photoshop CS, stitched with PTPicker (PanoTools), post production with Photoshop CS, all on a Macintosh computer.
This view is from the Coast Hotel in Long Beach, CA. The hotel has a great view of Downtown Long Beach across the bay, and is walking distance to the famous Queen Mary. Vistors can even catch a water taxi that reaches all the popular Long Beach tourist destina..
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Photo: Jimmy McGue
San Francisco Seven Hills 2004 Vernal Equinox 360  
Corona Heights, San Francisco, California, USA
Lat: 37° 45' 51" N Long: 122° 26' 25" W
Date/Time: 8:20 am Pacific Standard Time
Equipment: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)/ES-F 18-55 lens (at 18mm)/modified Kaidan KIWI 260/265 pan head/Photoshop CS and QTVRAS software.
Floral evidence of an 2004 summer equinox celebration near the top of one of San Francisco's seven hills...
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Photo: Lee Nelson
Donner Pass  
Donner Pass, California, USA
Lat: 39° 20' 32.3" N Long: 120° 20' 55.7" W
Date/Time: 11:57 am PST
Equipment: Taken with a Sony F717 at full wide angle with a 0.7x wide angle adapter. The twelve images were stitched with PanoTools and the QuickTime movie was created with PanoCube.
Donner Lake lies on the eastern side of Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of Northern California. It was near Donner Lake that the ill fated Donner Party camped during the winter of 1846 & 1847 when their covered wagon emmigration to Californ..
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Photo: Mike Posehn
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