MetaFilter posts tagged with panoramas

360 Cities -- if you can't be there, click here

cog_nate — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:19 -0800

360 Cities contains over 6,000 fantastically shot virtual reality panoramas of 50+ cities worldwide. It's also accessible through Google Earth and Google Maps. Too immersive for you? Well, check out VeniVidiWiki to discover points of interest with videos, nature areas and parks, restaurants, hotels, and other travel-related stuff.

George Lawrence and his amazing Lawrence Captive Airship

spock — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:00:26 -0800

Motto: "The Hitherto Impossible in Photography is Our Specialty." Meet George Lawrence. Saying that "he took pioneering aerial photographs using kites" doesn't quite do Lawrence Captive Airship justice. Dubbed the Lawrence Captive Airship it utilized a string of seven kites to lift the specially designed cameras to heights of 2,000 ft. Cameras weighing as much as 49 pounds and capable of producing negatives from 10 x 24 inches to a staggering 30 x 87 inches in size. The largest negatives yet taken from any airborne vehicle. He holds a significant place in the History of Remote Sensing, Aerial Photography. See multiple galleries of his aerial photography (scroll down) including his historic shots of (1906) earthquake striken San Francisco.

Les Petites Planètes

Robot Johnny — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0800

Wee Planets. 360° panoramas warped to look like small planets. The perfect vacation destinations for the Little Prince.

Just shoot and shake!

dobbs — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:47:06 -0800

The Polaroid Photography Collective has a number of links to some great galleries. The multi-shot panoramas are especially nice. {some images may be nsfw}

Massimo Vitale's photographs

madamjujujive — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:19:39 -0800

Photographer and photojournalist Massimo Vitali captures large-scale crowded panoramas of people at play in shared public spaces. His biography and works discussed: 1, 2. (via mira y calla)

What Aren't We Seeing?

derangedlarid — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:22:02 -0800

What Aren't We Seeing? Panoramic (high-res) Photographs of Profound Geological Erosion. When we're in Monument Valley, it's tempting to say that we're looking at monuments - large hunks of stone scattered across the landscapes like statues to honor past heroes, or tombstones to honor the dead. A closer look tells us there's more to it than that. As we scan from one "monument" to the next, we can see in each monument a sloping base of roughly uniform vertical thickness and then straightsided rock of very uniform thickness. The rock is the same in all of them, suggesting that they were all part of two (or many more) uniform layers of stone that extended across the entire region. And how about here, where the Front Range and the Great Plains meet. Do you see a fault? An experienced geological observer would see a high ridge to the left with at most a few scattered ragged exposures of rock, whereas a prominent ridge of sedimentary rock juts up in the middle but is nowhere to be seen to the left. The road that we see going away from us on the left side of the image seems to separate two rather different areas. That observation provides us with a hypothesis: maybe there's a fault between two different kinds of rock. (more discussion here, and don't miss the Virtual Field Trip to a Major Unconformity).

Landscapefilter

Gyan — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:35:37 -0800

The Light and the Land

the People's Palaces - a beautiful ride

taz — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:37:38 -0800

Fabulous images of the Moscow Metro underground, also known as "the people's palaces". Click "M"s on the entry map to view gorgeous (often architecturally surreal) panoramic images, and visit the picture gallery for sweet details. Via Jorgen at Viewropa.

"Take a virtual tour to some landmarks of Slovenia and a lot of fun!"

jokeefe — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:03:24 -0800

Virtual Reality Panoramas of Slovenia. This virtual guide is an attempt to present world landmarks with the point to - Slovenia. The goal of this project is to display the cultural and natural heritage of our planet with interactive Virtual RealityPanoramas. The project started in 1996 and is updated almost every week, so welcome to check it On-line! This presentation is a part of work in progress. Today it consists of 3610 Virtual Reality Panoramas, 1283 high resolution full screen QTVR-s and more than 16.000 photos (also wallpapers in three standard resolutions), which is about 80 % (hm..?) of the project (Slovenia Landmarks only) . By Slovenian artist Bostjan Burger.

cool Grand Canyon views

madamjujujive — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:30:31 -0800

Take a nifty little tour of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River. (QTVR pics). (Alternate sites for non-QTVR people.)

A glimpse of Russia - dachas, metros and more

madamjujujive — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:28:42 -0800

Russian Dacha Panormas - what a charming place! The voyeur in me likes to peek in houses to see how other people live. This is just one of many fascinating Russian interiors from Bee Flowers whose portfolio celebrates the everyday. Don't miss the magnificent Moscow Metro series.

Night View of Seto - panormic views of western Japan

madamjujujive — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:10:47 -0800

Night View of Seto - impressive panoramas of western Japan. (via Yakitori)

Staffordshire

plep — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:36:56 -0800

Staffordshire Past Track. History and images of an English Midlands county : old photographs and online exhibitions on historic churches, celebrations, birth, death, serial killers and mining (and the 1984-85 strike).
Related sites :- the Museums of the Potteries, the area around Stoke-on-Trent which played a major role in the Industrial Revolution; thepotteries.org, including postcards and photographs; In Search of Agenoria, black and white photographs of the post-industrial Black Country landscape; A Miner's Son- more mining history in the Midlands (with more on the 1984-85 strike, possibly the most divisive political event in recent British history); save Bethesda Chapel, a historic Methodist chapel in Stoke; panoramic views and history of Lichfield Cathedral and other Staffordshire places.

panorama

crunchland — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:39:35 -0800

Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 ~ 4000+ images archived, courtesy of they US Library of Congress.

Flatscape Panoramas

Shane — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:48:45 -0800

ArtFilter: Imaginative, innovative takes on the landscape theme. Flatscape, "a [paper] publication about the Panorama," was to be published in Europe late last year (*see inside) . The submissions for the first issue are still online here.