John Ryan is a Geographer teaching in the San Diego Ca area. Additionally he and his wife have a residence in Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition to photography, John is an instructor of Paragliding.

I am a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. Panoramas have become quite a hobby for me. Please contact me if you're in the Albuquerque area you'd like a panorama made for promotional purposes, indoor or outdoors. rlhelinski AT gmail DOT com

My current spherical panorama process includes exposure bracketing for high dynamic range (HDR), and yields a 14000x7000 (98MP) equirectangular image.

My tool chain consists exclusively of free and open source software. I use 64-bit Fedora Linux, UFRaw, Hugin, Panotools, the GIMP, etcetera. If you have any questions, direct them to the Google discussion group, http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/

Ryan, Founder of SHOTS AROUND, a professional Virtual Reality service provider with offices in Hong Kong and China.

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I am a beginning photographer (Check back on me in the future about that tho). I am a student studying Linguistics. I have a love of both nature and architecture.