Mount Everest from the Summit. Photo © Roderick Mackenzie

10 years ago at the 50 year anniversary for the first who reached the top of Everest, I published the only existing 360 panorama from the top of Mount Everest.

May 29 1953 The top of Mount Everest was reached for the first time by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. On May 24, 1989 the Australian photographer and mountaineer Roderick Mackenzie reached the summit. He was no 271 since 1953. The panorama he made is still the only 360 degree panorama made from the summit.

During the 10 years it has been seen by more than 7.000.000 people, and it has until very recently been one of the top 5 in Google when searching for Mount Everest.

The life of Jesus from Birth to Death, as Danish mediveal church artists painted it.

Dec 19, 2011
The Danish Church paintings. Bible Cartoons of the Mediveal ages
The Danish and Swedish church paintings are a unique concentration of church frescoes and murals in the world.
More than 600 churches have murals dated back to the Middle Ages. Read more

Last post office in the Netherlands

In many countries, commercialized postal services have closed the traditional post offices and set up small service points in supermarkets and magazine shops.

On the 27th of November at 18.00 hrs, the last post office in the Netherlands at the Neude in Utrecht, has closed its doors.
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Occupy Wall Street at Times Square October 15 - 2011

The Occupy Wall Street protests started on September 17 as a small rally on Manhattan and Broadway.

A month later the movement was Global with protests on October 15 from North and South America to Asia, Africa and Europe,.

Over 1,500 events in 82 countries, was held as part of a global day of action.

Midsummer celebration at Skansen Stockholm.

June 24, 2011 - VR Photo @ Jann Lipka - www.fotograf.nu

While Denmark and Norway is celebrating midsummer with bonfires, Sweden has another tradition.

At midsummer eve the Swedes raise and dance around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång

Graffiti Pop Art on Red Army Monument in Sofia Bulgaria

June 24, 2011 - VR Photo @  Dimitar Torbov, www.bg360.net

During last weekend the Soviet army monument in Sofia, Bulgaria was transformed into Pop Art by unknown graffiti artists.

THE ROYAL WEDDING AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

APRIL 28, 2011 - VR Photo @ Torsten Hemke

Tomorrow the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton take place.The place outside Buckingham Palace will be crowded with thousands of people. The wedding will take place in Westminster Abbey where they will arrive after a drive from Buckingham Palace

SALT LAKE CITY TEMPLE SQUARE

APRIL 11, 2011 - VR Photo by Hans Nyberg

Salt Lake City was founded by Mormon Pioneers on July the 24th 1847.

The central city, in American English usually called Downtown SLC (check Wikipedia for this special US Expression) is built in close connection to the gigantic Temple Square Area which is the world headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

KALØVIG DENMARK
Dec 7, 2010

VR Photo by Hans Nyberg

CARL BLOCH PAINTINGS AT FREDERIKSBORG CASTLE

Nov 5, 2010

Next week the Brigham Young University's Museum of Art in Utah US opens an exhibition with paintings by the Danish 19th century painter Carl Bloch. I was commissioned by the Brigham Young museum to photograph panoramas from all the Danish and Swedish churches where Carl Bloch's altar paintings are found.

One of the locations i shot was the Kings Oratory (Kongens Bedekammer) at Frederiksborg Castle. To be able to show all paintings in the panorama I had to remove the silver altar you see above but as it could not be moved I had to do a Photo manipulation in Photoshop.

View the panorama before and after and read how it was done. Read More

Reunion Island inscribed as Natural World Heritage Site. August 3 2010 -
Photographer: Hervé Douris Website: www.panoramas.re

At a meeting last wek in Brasilia the pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island was inscribed as a natural World Heritage Site. Read More

CAPE TOWN AERIAL PANORAMA

Aerial Panoramas by OLEG GAPONYUK / Tech. assistant ANDREY ZUBETZ

Aerial Panoramas have during the last years become an interesting speciality in VR Photo. The Russian photographer Oleg Gaponyuk has travelled to do panoramas from some of the most spectacular places around the world. Oleg's aerial panoramas are made from a real helicopter but that is just one of the ways to do aerial panoramas. Using RC Helicopters, Helium Balloons, or Kites are other ways of creating this spectacular panoramas. More about that to come soon.

Stockholm, June 19, 2010
Today Victoria the crown princess of Sweden married Daniel Westling, a fitness trainer from the small village Ockelbo, at a wedding which beats everything that has ever happend in Sweden.

An estimation of 500.000 people was in the streets of Stockholm to celebrate them and to watch the Crown Princess and their new Prince at their tour through Stockholm in the horse-drawn Royal Carriage.

GALA PERFORMANCE FOR THE QUEEN April 15 2010