Peter Thompson


South Africa, Africa
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About Peter

Prior to my full-time photography career, I obtained a Doctorate in Entomology from the University of Natal, and spent many years working for multinational companies. For these companies I was responsible for specific African export business, and so had the opportunity to visit 22 different African countries. This is where my love of photography actually developed and I have some fascinating (though not always good) pictures of Africa!

I first took virtual tours exclusively for the tourism website My Destination Johannesburg. This gave me plenty of experience in shooting virtual tours for hotels, lodges, guest houses, museums, adventure activities, and just about any other tourism related business. After 6 years, I decided to move out of this business and concentrate on the developing art of virtual tour photography (Note: This website is unfortunately no longer being maintained by its new owner!)

I started my own company called Blue Wing Multimedia, and I now take full featured interactive virtual tours for any business interested in making their websites more attractive to their visitors. This in turn keeps a visitor on their website for longer, increasing the chance that their visitors will turn into their customers.

I offer my clients interactive virtual multimedia tours, incorporating video clips; standard panoramic virtual tours; and interactive photo tours. Our clients can "build your own tour" by selecting the type and number of photographs they wish to have, the degree of interactivity they require, and by choosing their own add-on features for the ideal displaying of their product or business. They can even send us their own quality photographs for processing. We also shoot and create short website videos.

Some of my customers over the past years include Sun International (Sun City and its Hotels), Tsogo Sun (Montecasino and its Hotels), Maropeng and Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind, and all the Gautrain Stations, amongst others. We also took a series of virtual tours of every camp and picnic spot in the Kruger National Park! A selection of these tours will shortly be be posted here