Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Penland offers one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, and wood. The school also offers artists' residencies, community collaboration programs, and a gallery and information center.
www.penland.org
Diarna, “Our Homes” in Judeo-Arabic, is the flagship initiative of Digital Heritage Mapping, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit specializing in digitally preserving historic and cultural sites worldwide. The project pioneers the use of digital mapping technologies to explore the unfolding of Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa through the prism of physical location by digitizing individual sites (schools, cemeteries, synagogues, shrines) and memories.
Anyone with an Internet connection can use Diarna to travel across the region as if on eagles' wings, unaffected by political and inter-religious strife below. Previously unknown or difficult to visit sites are now "visitble" via Diarna's weaving and synthesizing of satellite imagery, immersive panoramas, three-dimensional architectural models, archival and contemporary photography, scholarship, and oral history recordings.
Dirven by a team with diverse background and outlooks--including young Muslims eager to discover their shared history--Diarna has been: featured as a resource for scholars in the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World" (Brill Publications, 2010); recognized as one of the 50 most innovative Jewish projects in North America by the Slingshot Fund (2009-2010); the subject of a panel at the Association of Jewish Studies' 42nd Conference; profiled in Haaretz (http://goo.gl/2N9VZ); and is partnered with Wellesley College, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People, and the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute.
The immersive panos published here are an advance preview of The Diarna Project's D'fina exhibit (http://www.JewishMorocco.org), dedicated to uncovering the "buried" or "covered" Jewish treasures of Morocco.
Spanning the entire country, from metropolitan centers to remote villages, D’fina proffers a virtual passport to visitors wishing to explore mountain-top shrines of Jewish “saints” that continue to be voluntarily protected by Muslim caretakers, scorpion-guarded genizot (burial grounds for holy texts and objects), anthropomorphic tombstones in seaside cemeteries, synagogues on the edge of the Sahara Desert, and ancient urban quarters with hidden reminders of their one-time residents. This exhibit marks the first public showing of documentation on the majority of these sites, including several Vichy regime desert labor and “discipline” camps where hundreds of Jews and non-Jewish political prisoners toiled, suffered torture, and died during the Holocaust.
Aaron D. Priest is a Master Photographer with twenty years of experience in professional photography. He specializes in high-resolution HDR 360° panoramas, gigapans, and 4K timelapses of Maine. He also creates virtual tours and teaches photography workshops on a variety of topics, from landscape astrophotography to panoramas and timelapses. His work has been featured by CBS News, Space.com, Accuweather, PetaPixel, Roundme, TeliportMe, Google, and in several galleries, magazines, and newspapers.
Aaron is a pioneer in the developing field of high-resolution, high-dynamic range imagery, in particular spherical and gigapixel panoramas, virtual tours, and 4K / 360° timelapse video. With his background in photography and computers he has been able to help develop and test software and hardware for many companies in this growing market.
Christian Laheyne est un photographe freelance résidant au Maroc depuis 25ans. A l'âge de 15 ans, il fait l'acquisition de son premier reflex, un Zenit-E. Sa passion pour la photo était née. Au fil du temps et plus de 40 ans plus tard, il s'est perfectionné et à ce jour sa passion est toujours aussi forte.
Ses thèmes de travail principaux sont les paysages ainsi que les sujets architecturaux et traditionnels. Il porte son regard sur tout sujet qui présente un intérêt artistique ou une opportunité créative pour en capturer l'image. En 2009, il a ajouté à sa panoplie d'activités la prise de vue panoramique VR à 360° couvrant de nombreux sites attractifs au Maroc.
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I first came into contact with panoramic photography back in 2009 when a friend showed me some little planet pictures he created with Hugin. Since then I was hooked and started to devour tutorials on how to create such astonishing pictures.
Initially I was using equipment I borrowed from the university where I studied at the time. Later on I got my own gear suited for the task. The technique improved over time, as hopefully did the results as well ;-)
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Austria (Styria) based photographer and VR creator with almost two decades of 360 shooting experience in Austria, Europe and rest of the world.
360° Panorama portfolio with almost 500 panoramas in a single tour through Styria:
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Service and content provider (360° photo and video licensing) for high quality 360° panorama shooting, 360°-8K-video shooting as well as 360-post-production (stiching, etc.).