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I'm Ed Fink, 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.
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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 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 panorama at ClimbZone a Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America. This was an alternate shot for the March 2023 World Wide Panorama on the theme Tall.
Equipment: Ricoh Theta Z1, FE
Categories: Mall of America, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at ClimbZone at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America. This was for the March 2023 World Wide Panorama on the theme Tall.
Equipment: Ricoh Theta Z1, FE
Categories: Mall of America, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama above a deserted Rosedale Mall during the Covid19 lockdown in Roseville, MN. My submission to the Summer Solstice World Wide Panorama on the theme Confinment.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Minneapolis, Quadcopter, World Wide Panorama
Fairy Falls sunrise 360 degree aerial panorama north of Stillwater, MN.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Quadcopter, St Croix River, Stillwater, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at George Floyd Square at Chicago Ave. and 38th St. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. People rose up in protest worldwide after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin in front of Cup Foods on May 25, 2020. Mourners left memorials to George here, including the raised fist sculpture created during the ongoing occupation of the intersection. This was shot on the second day of Derek Chauvin’s trial while the crowd was downtown protesting at the courthouse.
Equipment: Nikon D300s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Minneapolis, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama directly over Gold Medal Park overlooking the Mississippi River in downtown Minnespolis, MN. The river has been drawn down to record levels to inspect the locks, exposing the river bottom in places, the exposed foot of St. Anthony Falls, and remains of older river structures.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: 35W Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis, Mississippi River, Quadcopter, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama at sunset over the historic Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, IA. Building construction completed in 1886 but the conversion of gas lights to electric in 1904 caused a fire requiring major restoration. In the 1980’s the Capitol exterior had deteriorated, with sandstone chunks falling from the building, requiring a nine phase restoration project that completed in 1998.
This is my submission to the World Wide Panorama event History (revisited).
https://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp621/
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: State Capitols, Iowa, Quadcopter, World Wide Panorama
Mall of America Atrium
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Mall of America, Minneapolis, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama at the Mill City Museum. My submission to World Wide Panorama: Museums.
The Mill City Museum is built in the ruins of what was once the world’s largest flour mill. The museum focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from the nearby Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River.
The first Washburn A Mill was the largest flour mill in the world and contributed to the development of Minneapolis. On May 2, 1878, a spark ignited airborne flour dust creating an explosion that demolished the Washburn A and killed 18 workers instantly. The ensuing fire resulted in the deaths of four more people and destroyed five other mills.
Known as the Great Mill Disaster, the explosion served as a focal point for reforms in the milling industry to prevent the buildup of combustible flour dust.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Minneapolis, Mississippi River, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama at the Mill City Museum. An alternate shot for my submission to World Wide Panorama: Museums, about 100' higher than the shot I used.
The Mill City Museum is built in the ruins of what was once the world’s largest flour mill. The museum focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from the nearby Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River.
The first Washburn A Mill was the largest flour mill in the world and contributed to the development of Minneapolis. On May 2, 1878, a spark ignited airborne flour dust creating an explosion that demolished the Washburn A and killed 18 workers instantly. The ensuing fire resulted in the deaths of four more people and destroyed five other mills.
Known as the Great Mill Disaster, the explosion served as a focal point for reforms in the milling industry to prevent the buildup of combustible flour dust.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Minneapolis, Mississippi River, World Wide Panorama
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 of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant near Red Wing, MN. This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Equinox 2022 Climate Change theme. My first choice was to shoot a 360 of the control room interior, but after a month of trying unsuccessfully to get permission from Xcel I finally gave up. Surprisingly, I didn't need ANY permission to shoot from here.
Equipment: DJI Air2s, 22 mm
Categories: Industrial, Mississippi River, Quadcopter, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama at the High Bridge near downtown Saint Paul, MN.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Bridges, Mississippi River, Quadcopter, Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
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”. And yes, it is also a panorama selfie.
Equipment: Ricoh Theta Z1, FE
Categories: Rochester, World Wide Panorama
Stillwater Ice Castles 360 degree aerial panorama, from above the old lift bridge.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Quadcopter, St Croix River, Stillwater, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at the intersection of Randall and Cooper by the Great Big Wheel, one of the tallest traveling giant Ferris wheels in North America at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Equipment: Nikon D300s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Minnesota State Fair, World Wide Panorama
Twin Cities Jazz Festival
An eclectic mix of humanity visits the Twin Cities Jazz Festival in downtown St. Paul, only a short light rail hop from the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minneapolis.
This is my submission to the World Wide Panorama event on the theme “Humanity”.
https://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp622/
June 25, 12:45 PM UTC 7:45 PM local time)
Ricoh Theta Z1, PTGui, Photoshop
44.948831, -93.087981
Equipment: Ricoh Theta Z1, FE
Categories: Saint Paul, Twic Cities Jazz Festival, World Wide Panorama
360 degree aerial panorama of the Iron Ore docks on Lake Superior's Agate Bay in Two Harbors, MN. The steel docks were originally built to load high grade iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range onto large ships, but after World War II most of the high grade iron ore in the U.S. ran out and the industry moved to a lower grade ore, taconite, which you see here. The docks are over 1,300 feet long and seven stories tall. Today 12 million tons of taconite a year are shipped from Two Harbors to other locations on the Great Lakes eventually to be heated up to over 1000 degrees in blast furnaces, and converted into steel.
Equipment: DJI P4P, 24 mm
Categories: Duluth, Industrial, Outstate Minnesota, Quadcopter, World Wide Panorama
Wright Brothers Bike Shop in Dayton, Ohio
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: D&M Aviation Inc. 513-602-3177
Pilot: Dan Kelly
Categories: Dayton, Ohio, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at the Minnesota Peace Officers Memorial in St. Paul.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Fall Equinox 2015 event Peace.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at CHS Field home plate during an American Legion game.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama event New.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama inside the National Weather Service office in the Minnesota Twin Cities suburb of Chanhassen. The Chanhassen NWS office is one of 122 Weather Forecast Offices around the country, and provides round the clock weather forecasts from the state-of-the-art Doppler Radar and 13 meteorologists, 4 hydro-meteorological technicians, 1 meteorologist intern, 3 electronics technicians, a service hydrologist, an information technology expert, a facilities technician, and an administrative assistant.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Spring Equinox 2015 event Weather - Climate.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama inside Ramsey Mill Ruins on the Vermillion River in Hastings, MN. Built in 1856 by Alexander Ramsey, the first governor of Minnesota. When it burned in 1894, the mill’s output had reached 125 barrels of flour a day.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Fall Equinox 2014 event Ruins.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Outstate Minnesota, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at the gates to the Minneapolis Pioneer and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. Established in 1853, it is the oldest cemetery in Minneapolis. About 2,000 people are buried here, including early African-American residents, 200 veterans, and several thousand immigrants, along with infamous Harry Hayward, the first documented American serial killer. This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Fall Equinox 2013 event Mortality. I wanted to go inside the cemetery, but procrastinator that I am, I arrived too late, on the last day of shooting, and couldn’t get in. I decided to shoot anyway - a padlocked gate at an endangered historical cemetery still seems like a good fit for Mortality, plus it makes me think about all the people who have warned me that I will be late for my own funeral.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Minneapolis, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama inside the Pioneer Press Production Facility in St. Paul, MN.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Summer Solstice 2013 event Machines.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the first day of Spring in the recently renovated and reopened Union Depot - St. Paul’s own Grand Central Station. Spencer Fink and Zoe Fink are playing giant chess, checkers, Connect 4, and other games on Union Depot’s game night.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Spring Equinox 2013 event "Scale". The huge building itself just screams "scale", and certainly the giant games do - plus looking towards the Connect 4, that colorful thing way in the background at the far end of the terminal is the world’s largest Lite Bright.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, Union Depot, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama in front of the world’s largest Lite Bright display in the recently renovated and reopened Union Depot - St. Paul’s own Grand Central Station on the first day of Spring.
This was an alternate to my submission for the World Wide Panorama Spring Equinox 2013 event "Scale".
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, Union Depot, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the first day of Spring in the recently renovated and reopened Union Depot - St. Paul’s own Grand Central Station. Spencer Fink and Zoe Fink are playing giant chess, checkers, Connect 4, and other games on Union Depot’s game night.
This was an alternate to my submission for the World Wide Panorama Spring Equinox 2013 event "Scale". The huge building itself just screams "scale", and certainly the giant games do - plus looking towards the Connect 4, that colorful thing way in the background at the far end of the terminal is the world’s largest Lite Bright.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, Union Depot, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama during the 2012 Holidazzle Parade at Nicollet Ave. and 9th St. in downtown Minneapolis. It is difficult getting a good picture during the parade. They turn all the street lights off, so it’s really dark and hard to get a good crowd shot, plus the floats never stop. I’m starting to think the only way I can get a good shot of a float is to put a doll in a stroller, roll it out in the middle of the street, and scream "My baby! MY BABY!!"
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Holidazzle Parade, Minneapolis, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Hastings, MN as the new bridge is floated into place.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1 on 12' Pole
Categories: Bridges, Mississippi River, Outstate Minnesota, World Wide Panorama
This 360 degree panorama was shot at Memorial Park on Sorkins Bluff overlooking Red Wing, Minnesota, the Mississippi River, and across to Wisconsin.
On Father’s Day weekend 2012 I went back to my panorama roots with my wife and grandkids, and rented a convertible to cruise the bluff country along the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, shooting panoramas at some of the same locations I shot 13 years ago when I first started doing interactive panoramas.
In 1999 my $1,000 digital camera took 18 shots to make a 360 degree panorama. I could fit exactly 36 shots in the camera, so if I didn’t make any mistakes I could shoot 2 panoramas before I had to do a 30 minute camera download! Because it took such an investment in time I learned to be very picky with my shots, and wanted only the most scenic locations. So I used to do "panorama weekends" where I’d rent a convertible and cruise around looking for special panoramas - like this one.
This was my submission for the "Heritage" World Wide Panorama event for Summer Solstice 2012.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Mississippi River, Outstate Minnesota, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama in a St. Paul skyway over the 4th St. Central Corridor Light Rail construction.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have the coldest average temperature of any major metropolitan area in the U.S. Due to the extreme weather both cities have developed a system of enclosed, climate controlled pedestrian bridges linking the downtown buildings. The St. Paul skyway pictured here, is one of the largest skyway systems in U.S.
The Central Corridor Light Rail will connect the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The protesters in the courtyard plaza below are Catholics protesting President Obama's mandatory insurance funding for contraceptives.
This was my submission for the 2012 Spring Equinox World Wide Panorama event Paths.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama in the blacksmith shop at Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota during one of the Blacksmith For A Day classes.
This was my submission for the World Wide Panorama Fall Equinox 2011 event History.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama from the Wabasha Bridge above the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul during the 2011 spring floods. With the river at 17’ here, several roads have been closed, and in anticipation of the 19’ crest due in the next day or two, flood walls have been erected to limit the flooding in low lying neighborhoods and the downtown airport.
This was my submission for theWorld Wide Panorama Spring Equinox 2011 event Limits.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1
Categories: Mississippi River, Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
This was my submission for the 2010 Fall Equinox World Wide Panorama event Crossroads.
Minneapolis has the coldest average temperature of any major metropolitan area in the U.S. Due to the extreme weather the city has developed a system of enclosed, climate controlled pedestrian bridges linking the downtown buildings. The 69 block, 7 mile system is the largest continuous skyway system in the world. Located at Crystal Court under the IDS building, the skyway intersection pictured here is a major pedestrian crossroads.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Minneapolis, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama during the 2010 Minnesota State Veteran’s Day Program at the Inver Grove Heights Veterans Memorial Community Center.
Speaking is U.S. Senator Al Franken, and sitting onstage is Governor Tim Pawlenty, Deputy Commissioner of Veteran Heath Care Gilbert Acevedo, Deputy Commissioner of Programs and Services Reggie Worlds, Adjutant General of the Minnesota National Guard Maj. Gen. Richard Nash, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, and U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum.
Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikkor 10.5mm (shaved), Nodal Ninja 3
Categories: Veterans, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the first night of summer at the Cottage View Drive-In in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.
This was my submission for the 2010 Summer Solstice World Wide Panorama event “Forgotten Places".
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the first day of spring during the Sugar on Snow Festival at the Tamarack Nature Center in White Bear Township, Minnesota, as a group of children learn how to tap a maple tree and make maple syrup.
This was my submission for the 2010 Spring Equinox World Wide Panorama event "Food".
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama of the John Beargrease performance/reenactment at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
John Beargrease was a legendary Ojibwe mail carrier and fur trader most famous for battling Minnesota’s extreme winters to deliver mail along the North Shore of Lake Superior via dog sled. Using four dogs, he would travel an average of 30-40 miles a day.
Today his life is commemorated with the annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, which is the longest and most challenging sled dog event in the lower 48 states.
John Beargrease is one of the many characters from Minnesota’s past that are performed regularly by the Minnesota History Players at the History Center.
This was my submission for the 2009 Fall Equinox World Wide Panorama event "Performing Arts".
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Minnesota History Center, Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on Sand Island in the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
This was my submission for the 2009 Summer Solstice World Wide Panorama event.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: St Croix River, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama at the Happy Gnome’s Firkin Fest, featuring 25 breweries and over 55 specialty beers.
This was my submission for the 2009 Spring Equinox World Wide Panorama event.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3
Categories: Saint Paul, World Wide Panorama
Over Main St. at 6th St. in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: Signature Engines, Inc.
Pilot: Bill Schmidt
Categories: Cincinnati, Ohio, World Wide Panorama
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
360 degree aerial panorama directly over Ohio Stadium (AKA: "The Horseshoe"), home of the Buckeyes, at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: Signature Engines, Inc.
Pilot: Bill Schmidt
Categories: Columbus, Ohio, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge disappearing into the morning fog over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis during the first week of spring. The bridge is in First Bridge Park, and was built at the site of the first bridge in the country to span the Mississippi River.
The only building visible in the fog is the Minneapolis Post Office, which is on the site of the first permanent white dwelling on the west bank of the river.
This was my submission for the 2007 Spring Equinox World Wide Panorama "Atmosphere" event.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Bridges, Minneapolis, Mississippi River, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge as it disappears into the morning fog over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis during the first week of spring. The bridge is in First Bridge Park, and was built at the site of the first bridge in the country to span the Mississippi River.
The only building visible in the fog is the Minneapolis Post Office, which is on the site of the first permanent white dwelling on the west bank of the river.
This was an alternate shot for the 2007 Spring Equinox World Wide Panorama "Atmosphere" event.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Bridges, Minneapolis, Mississippi River, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama inside Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Regional Transportation Management Center (RTMC). MN State Patrol Dispatch, Maintenance Dispatch, and Traffic Operations work together in a state of the art Operations Center using cutting-edge technology, progressive programs, and real time information delivery systems to provide motorists with a faster, safer trip on Twin Cities area freeways.
This was my submission for the 2006 Fall Equinox World Wide Panorama on Transportation.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Roseville, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama shot from a lift inside the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Regional Transportation Management Center (RTMC). MN State Patrol Dispatch, Maintenance Dispatch, and Traffic Operations work together in a state of the art Operations Center using cutting-edge technology, progressive programs, and real time information delivery systems to provide motorists with a faster, safer trip on Twin Cities area freeways.
This was an alternate shot for the 2006 Fall Equinox World Wide Panorama on Transportation.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Roseville, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama in front of the historic Tivoli Hotel in Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina. The Tivoli Hotel, built in 1927, and the newer two story Tivoli Motel next door were struck by casino barges that broke free during the 30 foot storm surge. The motel was flattened, killing eight people, and the hotel suffered major damage.
(My first computer job was RPG II programming on an IBM Sys 36 at the Tivoli.)
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Hurricane Katrina, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the second day of spring as two children take advantage of the warm weather to throw snowballs in the St. Croix River that separates Minnesota and Wisconsin, just south of Taylor’s Falls, MN and St. Croix Falls, WI.
Over the 2006 Spring Equinox VR photographers around the world shot panoramas on the theme "Borders" for the World Wide Panorama. This was my submission.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: St Croix River, Wisconsin, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama of kids shopping for fun at the Mall of America’s Camp Snoopy.
Over the 2005 Spring Equinox, VR photographers around the world shot panoramas on the theme "Marketplace" for a World Wide Panorama project. This was my entry.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Mall of America, World Wide Panorama
Over the 2004 Winter Solstice VR photographers around the world shot panoramas on the theme "Sanctuary" for a World Wide Panorama project
I shot my "Sanctuary" panorama of a homeless family inspecting their new room at
People Serving People, an emergency housing shelter in downtown Minneapolis,
Minnesota that provides temporary rooms for up to 440 people, 60% of them
children.
On this first night of winter the temperature dropped to -8 degrees F (-22 C), with wind chills reaching -33 degrees F (-36
C). Deeper into winter the temperature here can hit -30 degrees F (-34 C) and
colder. That makes People Serving People not only a sanctuary, but a
life-saving sanctuary.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: World Wide Panorama
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 next to 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, Veterans, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama as the audience sings "God Bless America" during an emotional Veterans Day ceremony at the Minneapolis, Minnesota VA Home on Nov. 11, 2004, attended by Gov. Tim Pawlenty and U.S. Sens. Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman, along with Marland Ronning, MN American Legion Commander, and Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson, USAF (retired).
These Veterans Day (Nov. 11th) panoramas were shot for a collaborative VR project remembering the end of "The War To End All Wars."
In the U.S. there is no specific ceremony marking the end of World War One. Instead, Nov. 11 is recognized as Veterans Day, a time for honoring veterans of all wars. (Like my father, Lee S. Fink, who served in World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam.)
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Government, Veterans, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama as the audience salutes the color guard at the end of an emotional Veterans Day ceremony at the Minneapolis, Minnesota VA Home on Nov. 11, 2004, attended by Gov. Tim Pawlenty and U.S. Sens. Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman, along with Marland Ronning, MN American Legion Commander, and Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson, USAF (retired).
These Veterans Day (Nov. 11th) panoramas were shot for a collaborative VR project remembering the end of "The War To End All Wars."
In the U.S. there is no specific ceremony marking the end of World War One. Instead, Nov. 11 is recognized as Veterans Day, a time for honoring veterans of all wars. (Like my father, Lee S. Fink, who served in World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam.)
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Government, Veterans, World Wide Panorama
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