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Trevor C Curtis

www.trevorcurtis.com

www.graphiclightproductions.com

 

My previous training as a structural engineer taught me the precision of engineering design which has driven my photography as a panoramic artist ...... to produce work which is technically challenging and artistically beautiful.

Now a world traveller and photographer with panoramas from places such as:

USA-Seattle WA, San Francisco CA, Sacramento CA, Bellevue WA (3), Las Vegas NV, Icy Strait Point AK, Valley of Fire NV, Amazon Spheres WA (3), Maui Hi Banyan Tree, Oahu HI,

Mexico- Cabo San Lucas (2), Chocchoben Mayan Ruins Quntana Roo (3),

Spain- Barcelona, Monserrat Monestry (2),

Asia- Bali (9), Singapore (4), 

Africa - Cape Town Table Mountain, Aquila Reserve, Sao Tome & Principle, Cape Town V&A Waterfront,

China (20)- Beijing, Great Wall, Wuxi, Shanghai and more

Europe - Santorini Greece, Rome Italy, Orvieto Italy, Florence Italy, Trier Germany, Dubrovnik Croatia, Lithuania-Vilnius City (10), Luxembourg City(6)

UK- Bristol

.... and currently many more, so take a quick look in "Sets" for more surprise panoramas.......together with more to follow!!

Introducing Trevor C Curtis: 360º Contributor of the Month – July – 360Cities Blog

James O. Phelps

The images you see here are the result of an interest in panoramic photography that goes back over 35 years. As a student in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota, one often began a project by going out to a hypothetical building site with a 35mm camera and taking a series of sequential snapshots. Then, back at the studio, with a little scotch tape and the exercise of an ability not exceeding that of laying dominoes end to end, a panorama would emerge.

After two decades of dealing with real buildings on real sights, vacations to exotic places, scotch tape, exacto blades, band aids and some unsatisfactory experiments with early stitching software, I began to look at the real thing. I began to research real panoramic cameras. In 1996 I took my first true panoramic photograph with the Hulcherama Panoramic Camera. This first effort was a bewildering 360° blur of trees and boulders near Devil's Den on The Gettysburg National Battlefield, but it was the start. Subsequently, I honed a tenuous professionalism with this subtle, high-strung camera which, when it was good, was very, very good indeed.

The panoramas displayed on this page were taken with either the Hulcher or more recently, as digital technology superseded analogue, the GigaPan system. Initially, I was going to be the new interpreter of the American Civil War, a sort of historical messiah laying open heretofore unknown truths about truly historic landscapes where the fate of a divided union was played out, if play is the word. I've taken dozens of panoramas of the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields and many others. Over the years I have expanded my portfolio to several other subjects and landscapes of interest.

You may notice that these panoramas are all cylindrical projections. Not spherical. I made this choice early on. My final work is entirely a traditional two dimensional medium...the photographic print. Although the viewing of spherical panoramas is a fascinating and informative experience, the ability to see the entire 360 degree field of vision at once in a single, unrolled, flat photographic image allows compositional and graphic advantages unavailable from a purely rotational viewing system. In fact, it's an experience not even an on-site presence will allow. You may see how I compose, print and frame the final 360 degree images in full format on my website

jamesophelps.com

I'm always interested in hearing from people interested in panoramas. You can reach me at

jamesophelps@jamesophelps.com

Sincerely,

James O. Phelps