It was an occasion when we realized our late evening helicopter shooting over downtown of Los Angeles for the first time. It happened when our photographer, Dima Moiseenko, as he said us, had loitered with the take-off, but I would say he had been late for the shooting for half an hour :) Finally, he flew up at that time we usually land...

Two days of travel under a haviest rain I have ever seen. Forty eight hours with no single sun ray. Every minute the strong wind was reducing the probability of successful flights over the  Fiordland– the most beautiful place of New Zealand. But we didn't surrender...

In May, we managed to get on board of a helicopter, which flew over the city during the military fly-past rehearsal dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the Great Victory.  On our way back we decided to try the spherical panorama shooting from the moving helicopter.

For two hours I was flying around Northern and Southern Male atolls which is approximately 10% of the area of Maldives. I had four cameras with me and the most of the time I was shooting plain photos, but eventually have decided to try to shoot a spherical panorama. I had no idea how it can be done from the plane flying with the speed 150 km/h...

This panorama gives a unique opportunity to see lots of famous places in Moscow. As we know it is the first gigapixel panorama taken from a helicopter.

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