In 2008 I decided to visit New Zealand for a couple of weeks. On my way back a stayed for a night in Sydney and in the morning, before leaving for the airport, I shot these panoramas in the harbour near the Opera House.  That time we still couldn't shoot HD spheres, so, they are represented in standart resolution.

The treasury of our Moscow panoramas is gradually increasing. We have already been shooting aerial panoramas for 6 years. However, we didn't succeed in shooting Moscow, the city we live in, though we did our best. The case is the flights over Moscow are forbidden except those of Russian Federation Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Response and Russian police.

It was not very convenient to take panoramas from the plane, so we decided to try it from the underwater. It is our first experience of the underwater panoramic photography.

A famous sign HOLLYWOODLAND with its huge letters appeared in 1923 on the South slope of Mount Lee at a height of 491 meters with an advertising purpose exclusively. It was the way to announce publicly about itself of the Hollywoodland Construction Company. After the renovation letters LAND were removed and well known HOLLYWOOD comes to our days.

This May with the help of Dmitry Chistoprudov we came on the roof of the Capitals' City building complex. We were standing there at a height of 300 meters above Moscow and shooting several spherical panoramas from the highest tower in Europe.

Then, near St. Sophia Cathedral we were attacked by a crow. And while we were fighting in the air duel, the sun disappeared in the clouds. We had nothing to do but land our model and wait for the light. It was good luck for us when by the moment the light appeared the crow had already been bored to wait for the flight of its unknown competitor and had flown away.

And imagine: on the edge of the rock there is a man trembling with fear who is afraid of heights. In his shaking hands there is some metallic thing, he almost sees nothing with his closed eyes because of the bright sunlight. There is so much adrenaline in his body that “steam goes from his ears”. The first flight is always the most fearful.

Recently Dima had a helicopter flight over the half of Iceland but the volcano was covered with clouds and he wasn't able to shoot. This time he was able to rich the Grimsvotn volcano crater by the car and on foot.

This shooting of the Novodevichy has an old history. It was our first shooting in Moscow completely realized by ourselves and with own AirPano’s equipment. In the beginning of this year we bought a radio controlled helicopter, improved it and adjusted to the shooting of spheres.

One of the key tasks of our flights in St. Petersburg in August 2010 was the air shooting of ultra high resolution panoramas. Finally, the spherical panoramas of 18.000x9.000 resolution were shot in the air of St. Petersburg. As we know, that hasn't been realized by anybody in the world yet.