Welcome to www.360photo.org.
This site holds all my private panoramas and additionally some tutorials and photos I like. The site is owned and maintained by me, Serge Maandag.
I am a hobby photographer and panorama enthousiast. The knowledge I have of panorama techniques comes from the PanoToolsNG yahoo group, the panotools wiki and a lot of self study.
As you may have guessed from the previous sentence, I am an enthousiastic user of the panorama tools, a.k.a. the PanoTools. The panorama tools were developed by professor Helmut Dersch. Prof. Dersch developed, maintained and supported the tools until he got threatened by a big american firm which claimed to have some patents regarding the stitching of panoramas. Currently the tools are being developed by some gifted volunteers. They host the tools on a sourceforge site. A mirror of prof. Dersch' old site can be found here.
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Malta is perhaps best known for its Malta busses. On Malta you will find busses in service that date back to the 1960's. Until a few years back even older busses were used, but (probably) for security reasons they were taken out of commission. The older busses are quite cute and nostalgic, but if you have to travel longer distances, the lack of s..
The cities of Malta have a habit of looking quite shabby. So did a lot of the hotels until a few years back. Recognizing this fact and not wanting to become a cheap ugly holiday destination, the Maltese government decided that new hotels were only allowed to be built if they are 5 star hotels. Since tourism really boomed the last few years, ther ..
The small upper Barracca gardens are located on the highest point of Valletta, As you can see, they offer a magnificent view over the Grand harbour and the "three cities". Everyday at noon the Noon Day Gun is fired here. The arches are what is left of the training facility for the Italian knights. After they conspired in 1775 against grandmaster ..
The street layout of Valletta was designed by the Italian architect Francesco Laparelli da Cortona. He designed a checkerboard layout with straight parallel streets. After having tried for a short while to even out the rock Valletta was built on, the Maltese had to give up. But they held on to the straight layout. As a result Valletta has streets..
Valletta, the capitol of Malta has the shape of some sort of inland peninsula, weird as that may sound. That means that it is surrounded by harbours on both sides, giving a great panoramic view on both sides of the peninsula. This panorama shows the view over the Grand Harbour from East street (triq Lvant). With a temperature of 30 degrees Celsiu..
When driving above Vila, you'll suddenly end up on a parking lot beneath intriguing stairs. The stairs lead to the Marian sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Paz (our Lady of Peace). The monumental staircase opens onto one of São Miguels most beautiful landscapes which includes a view of the marvellous Ilhéu. The Ilhéu is the small island in front o..
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