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I'm Ed Fink, and these are my 360 degree panoramas. I was the first photographer in the world to shoot 360 degree panoramas from a helicopter. Today I'm a FAA licensed drone pilot and shoot most of my aerials with a quadcopter.
In addition to shooting aerial panoramas, I'm also a Google Street View Trusted Photographer in Minneapolis shooting Street View tours inside local businesses.
I publish thousands of 360 degree panoramas and virtual tours to Google Maps, where I currently have over 100 MILLION VIEWS.
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360 degree aerial panorama shot from the WCCO-TV helicopter over the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
This is the intro to a 45 panorama interactive virtual tour of the Minnesota State Fair.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: WCCO News
Pilot: Mark Carrino
Categories: Featured, Minnesota State Fair, Saint Paul
The Golden Army Chamber set from the movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Look straight down to see where Princess Nuala stabbed herself, collapsed, died, and turned to stone. She's not here in pieces like her brother, so we can hope she was carried away intact and is in a nice museum somewhere.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
360 degree aerial panorama over the Hill of Three Waters north of Hibbing, MN. This is one of five intersections of continental divides in the U.S., where water drains to three different watersheds. This is the intersection of the Northern Divide with the St. Lawrence Seaway Divide. From this point water flows north to the Hudson Bay, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Chippewa Indians held important council meetings here at "The Top of the World".
Now this is the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, which is the largest open-pit iron mine in the world, stretching over three miles long, two miles wide, and 535 feet deep.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Featured, Industrial, Iron Range, Quadcopter
360 degree aerial panorama of Prince memorial at Paisley Park. The North and West fences were completly lined with notes, photos, various purple items, and hundreds of purple balloons.
Equipment: DJI P3A, 20 mm
Categories: Featured, Music, Prince Memorials, Quadcopter
360 degree aerial panorama of Duluth Harbor and Aerial Lift Bridge.
Equipment: DJI P3A, 20 mm
Categories: Bridges, Duluth, Featured, Quadcopter
360 degree aerial panorama 700 ft. above the beach in east Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina. Although the new, larger hotels survived the hurricane, the casino barges were torn free and destroyed everything in their path.
Looking 5 blocks west down the beach you can see one of the smaller casino barges sitting on the lawn of the historic Tivoli Hotel (where I once worked!) The two story motel section in front of the hotel was struck by the barge, completely leveling it and killing 8 people, and a 4 story chunk was knocked out of the front of the hotel.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: J. W. Fordham (318)547-4109
Pilot: J. W. Fordham (318)547-4109
Categories: Featured, Hurricane Katrina, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama across from the giant Bob Dylan The Times They Are A Changin' mural in downtown Minneapolis on the first business day of the statewide COVID 19 lockdown. Definitely doesn't look like a normal rush hour! This was my Spring Equinox 2020 submission to the World Wide Panorama on the theme Change.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis, Music, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama in front of the main stage in the Minneapolis warehouse district during the 2014 10th annual Zombie Pub Crawl. With 15,458 zombies, this set a Guinness World Record for the largest zombie gathering.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
360 degree aerial panorama of the new Allianz Field soccer stadium in St. Paul, MN, home of the Minnesota United Foottball Club.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Featured, Quadcopter, Saint Paul
360 degree aerial panorama over Lock and Dam #1 near the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis, MN, a few days after the 16th anniversary of the bridge collapse.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: 35W Bridge Collapse, Bridges, Featured, Minneapolis, Mississippi River, Quadcopter
360 degree panorama at Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Devils Tower, Featured
360 degree aerial panorama above the Las Vegas Strip at the Luxor.
In partnership with KTNV ABC 13 News, this is part of a 60 panorama interactive aerial virtual tour of Las Vegas.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: KTNV
Pilot: Paul Hollenbeck
360 degree aerial panorama over flooded Mississippi River near Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, IA.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Featured, Iowa, Mississippi River, Quadcopter
360 degree panorama of Po Shu Wang's 30 feet long, 15 feet high stainless steel sculpture “Circumcenter” on the Mayo Civic Center's Riverfront Plaza in Rochester, Minnesota. Also known locally as the “Chicago Bean of Minnesota”, or the “mini-bean”.
Equipment: Ricoh Theta Z1, FE
Categories: Featured, Rochester, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama in Minneapolis directly over Saint Anthony Falls, the only falls on the entire length of the Mississippi River. Visible landmarks include the Stone Arch Bridge, the Guthrie Theatre, the Metrodome, Nicollet Island, and the northernmost lock and dam on the Mississippi River.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: Davis Aviation
Pilot: Mark Boyer
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis, Mississippi River
I was in Budapest in 2007 to shoot 360 degree panoramas of the main set for the movie
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army".
After I finished the Hellboy set I had a free day to run around Budapest shooting panoramas. It was awesome!!
If I’d had a little more time and money I would have chartered a helicopter to do 360 degree aerials, but I had to settle for shooting from a 12’ pole. :) I really hope to go back one day to shoot aerials.
Oh well - some of the panoramas, like this one from the Citadella on Gellert Hill, practically are aerials!
Equipment: NikonD70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3 on 12' pole, PocketWizard Plus
Sunrise at the Arcola High Bridge over the Saint Croix River.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Bridges, Featured, Quadcopter, St Croix River
360 degree aerial panorama of Cincinnati from over the Ohio River at Newport, Kentucky, just east of the John Roebling Suspension Bridge.
This is the entry point to a 140 panorama interactive aerial virtual tour of Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: D&M Aviation Inc. 513-602-3177
Pilot: Dan Kelly
Categories: Cincinnati, Ohio, Featured
360 degree aerial panorama northwest of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center the day before the first launch attempt for STS-116.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Katabi Helicopters
Pilot: Sgt. Mitch Young
360 degree panorama of Barb and Jason Skubitz at their Valentine’s Day Underwater Wedding in the shark tank at Underwater Adventures in the Mall of America.
The wedding was broadcast live on the NBC Today Show.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Different, Featured, Mall of America
360 degree panorama of Niagara Falls at sunset, on the American side.
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm
Categories: Featured
360 degree panorama at sunset at Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior after the Annual Beacon Lighting Ceremony and memorial service for the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Duluth, Featured, Outstate Minnesota
Aerial panorama of downtown New Orleans and the Superdome from a helicopter 400 ft. above the Pontchartrain Expressway at Baronne St. This was shot almost a month after Hurricane Katrina and three days after Hurricane Rita, which accounts for the eerie look of the almost empty streets and highways. The Greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge is normally the fifth busiest toll bridge in the U.S.
(My tale of an earlier disaster - the May 3, 1978 flood: I lived on the west bank and by the time I woke up my car was half submerged. I walked from Gretna to Algiers to check on friends, wading through chest deep water at times, and occasionally even swimming down the street. At General De Gaulle Dr. I caught a ride on a semi, standing outside on the steps to the driver’s door. Eventually I had to walk again when the truck stalled and couldn’t be restarted with the batteries under water.)
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Panther Helicopters
Pilot: Lance Panepinto
Categories: Featured, Hurricane Katrina
360 degree panorama next to the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, the centerpiece of the Walker Arts Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.The giant sculpture with it’s 5,800 pound aluminum spoon and 1,200 pound cherry is one of Minneapolis’ most famous landmarks.
Equipment: NikonD70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis
360 degree aerial panorama caddy-corner from Rize Recreational Cannabis Dispensary, and down the street from Higher Love Cannabis Co. in Ironwood, MI. Only FOUR HOURS drive from Minneapolis!!
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Featured, Ironwood, Quadcopter
360 degree panorama on the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA, where the Shot Heard ’Round the World was fired which began the American Revolution.
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm
Categories: Bridges, Featured, Veterans, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the south rim of the Grand Canyon at sunset.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Featured, Grand Canyon
360 degree panorama from the gallery of the Minnesota House in the Minnesota State Capitol. (This was the second panorama taken with my new D700 and shaved Nikkor 10.5 mm lens.)
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja 3
Categories: State Capitols, Featured, Saint Paul
360 degree aerial panorama of Wat Munisotaram, a Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Hampton, MN, 30 miles south of Minneapolis. This is the largest Cambodian Buddhist Temple in North America.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Featured, Outstate Minnesota, Quadcopter
360 degree panorama of an icy Minnehaha Falls.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis, Minnehaha Falls
360 degree panorama from the stage floor during the final performance of Andrew Rasmussen’s production of Rocky Horror Live on Halloween night at the LAB Theatre in Minneapolis.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis, Music, Rocky Horror Live!
The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the largest and oldest military aviation museum in the world. More than one million people a year visit the museum’s 17 acres of indoor exhibits.
The museum has over 400 aircraft and missiles in it’s collection, including the Wright Brothers 1909 Military Flyer, Curtis 1911 Model D, the Boeing B-17 Memphis Belle, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar (used in the atomic bombing of Nagaski) , Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, Rockwell B-1B, Northrup B-2A, Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, and eight presidential aircraft, including the first Air Force One, which was the plane that took President and Mrs. Kennedy to Dallas the day he was assassinated.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force is located outside Dayton, Ohio adjacent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Huffman Prairie Flying Field, where Orville and Wilbur Wright developed their airplane and made hundreds of flights.
Wright-Patterson is one of the largest Air Force installations, and is the Air Force’s main research and development base, headquarters of the Air Force Logistics Command, and home to the Air Force Institute of Technology and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Which might explain why the FBI was so eager to question us when we landed! :)
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: D&M Aviation Inc. 513-602-3177
Pilot: Dan Kelly
Categories: Dayton, Ohio, Featured, World Wide Panorama
