BETHLEHEM BIRTH CHURCH
Church of the Nativity is the oldest church in the Holy Land still in use. It is supposed to have been built upon the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Read More
Photographer: © Tom Lassiter Westridge VR
HOTEL ATLANTIS THE PALM DUBAI INAUGURATION PARTY
THE BIGGEST PARTY IN THE WORLD
On Nov 20 2008 The Atlantis Palm Hotel in Dubai was inaugurated with a party which medias has named the Largest Party ever.
 The Atlantis Palm Dubai is an $1.5 billion investment which is built on the artificial island The Palm Jumeira. The Palm Jumeira is the first of the islands which will become the world’s largest man-made islands. Read More
Photographers: © INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Mahmood Rashid and Hans Nyberg
CHICAGO GREEN ROOFS
Chicago the largest city in Illinois with a population of over 9.7 million people may by many be known as the gangster and mafia city, but it is also known for it's art and culture and as a green city.
The motto of Chicago is "Urbs in Horto" a Latin phrase which in English is "City in a Garden", and today the Chicago Park District consists of 552 parks. Read More
Photographer: © Victor Zaveduk
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED OBAMA
On Tuesday Nov 4 United States elected their President for the next 4 years.
Jook Leung documented the event in New York from Rockefeller Centre to Times Square with the celebration of Barack Obama as the new president.
Photographer: © Jook Leung
Bristol Balloon Festival
Bristol Fiesta started 30 years ago by Don Cameron, owner of the world's largest balloon manufacturer, Cameron Balloons.
It is today Europe's largest hot air balloon festival.
2008 was the 30th anniversary, with 500.000 visitors and with 100 balloons participanting.
Photographer: © Peter Payne
The panorama by Peter Payne was made at the 2007 festival and received 1 price at the IVRPA international 360 degree panorama print exhibition at Photokina 2008
Photographer:
© Michael Hansky www.inxs-media.de
September 22
The Oktoberfest in Munich started this weekend and lasts until Oktober 5th
This panorama is from last years festival.
Originally the Oktoberfest took place in Oktober and the first festival was held in 1810 to honor the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig’s marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
Photographer:
© Hans Nyberg panoramas.dk
September 25
Photokina the worlds largest Photo Trade Show is this week. Check my photokina report with a growing number of panos.
Drew Gardner well known UK photographer is like in 2006 at the Phase One booth in Hall 4.1 at Photokina
The Model is Gary "Stretch" Turner who holds the Guinness Record for the world’s stretchiest skin.
Photographer: © Steve Doran virtualtours.es
The City of Arts and Sciences, in Valencia Spain is a large complex supported by the Valencia Regional Government.
The area covers 350,000 square metres which makes the centre the largest of it's kind in Europe.
It was designed by the famous Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela.
Official website www.cac.es
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Republican Convention
September 4 2008
Republican National Convention 2008
John McCain and Palin take the Stage at the RNC in St. Paul Minnesota
Photographer :
Copyright Pat St. Clair for LightSpeedMedia.biz
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Democratic Convention
August 27 - 28 2008
Democratic National Convention 2008
The Democratic Convention in Denver Colorado
Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado
More than 80.000 people are gathered waiting for Barack Obama's speech
Photographer :
Copyright Pat St. Clair for LightSpeedMedia.biz
Olympic Parks / Stadiums
August 8 - Today the Olympic Games in Beijing starts.
Since the beginnings of the modern Olympic Games the arranging countries have built Stadiums and Parks especially dedicated to the Games and to host the athletes. See some of them in this weeks collection of fullscreen panoramas.
Barack Obama in Berlin
VR Photo © Michael Stoß
Berlin July 24 2008
Barack Obama's speech at the Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten Park was attended by a crowd estimated as 200.000
VR Photo © Oleg Gaponyuk
Technical assistance Andrei Zubets.
The view from Hotel Plaza in New York.
Oleg Gaponyuk a photographer from Moscow is one of the more than 200 photographers participating in the last WorldWide Panorama event Elevation.
The panorama from New York is not his contribution to the event even if it very well illlustrates the theme Elevation. Oleg currently travels around the world doing panoramas and at the time for the Elevation event he was in Rio.
You can see his Elevation panorama from Rio de Janeiro here.
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