2021 has been declared as the "Year of Science and Technology" in Russia. This weekend the VDNH (a huge exhibition center and amusement park in Moscow) hosted the "Technosreda" festival dedicated to science and technology in our country. This is not the first time when we collaborate with Georgy Molodtsov, one of the most active VR and 360 promoters in Russia. Georgy Molodtsov prepared a very intense 360 film program, from Russia and abroad. On our behalf, we demonstrated the Kizhi movie (Laureate of the Shanghai Film Festival) that has been created in cooperation with the Kizhi Museum Reserve.
This year is significant for us. After all, we have been participating in this prestigious competition for 10 years already! Progress is not static, the possibilities of panoramic and VR photography are expanding more and more every year, we are very proud that this year the founder of the AirPano project, Oleg Gaponyuk, won the gold medal (for a split panorama from Jellyfish Lake in Palau) and has become the «VR Photographer of the Year» for the fifth time. One of our authors, Alexey Matveyev got the second place (for Mutnovsky volcano at sunset, Kamchatka), and the works by Ivan Roslyakov (sunrise at the Himalayas) and by Stas Sedov (Cape Town in mist) entered top 20. Congratulations to all participants and winners!
From September 3 to September 17, 2021, the Kizhi Museum takes part in the Days of Spiritual Culture of Russia in Hungary. The exhibition "Kizhi — Past and Present" is being held at the National Library of Foreign Literature in Hungary.
This exhibition presents photographs of the unique reserve of peasant culture and folk architecture, as well as models of some of the 82 unique monuments of Russian wooden architecture of the 14th — 20th centuries.
The exhibition also demonstrates a VR film about Kizhi Island, filmed by AirPano (became the winner in the VR nomination at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival).
9 years in a row AirPano has won in the main categories of The EPSON International Pano Awards. This year our photographers make the Top 20 list in the 360° category of the best panoramas of the year and Oleg Gaponyuk has become the VR photographer of the year and won the first place for his underwater split-panorama from Palau archipelago.
It is worth noting that Oleg had to spent more than two months in Palau due to the world lockdown. But this made it possible to take a close look for the underwater world of the amazing archipelago.
1. Oleg Gaponyuk — Split in the Cave, Chandelier Cave, Palau
5. Oleg Gaponyuk — Inside a Coral Cave, Komodo Islands, Indonesia
7. Ádám Plézer — In the Middle of Pacific Ocean. Caroline Atoll. Kiribati
11. Sergey Rumyantsev — Winter on the Top of Kuntivaara, Finland
16. Ivan Roslyakov — Hidden Side of Annapurna Sanctuary, Himalayas, Nepal, Grand Barrier
18. Stas Sedov — The Biggest Wooden Church in the World, Kizhi UNESCO Heritage Site.
Oleg Gaponyuk took a second place in the Wide Angle nomination at a very prestigious international underwater photography contest «Underwater Photographer of the Year» — UPY 2020.
Judge's comment: "One of my favourites from the entire competition. The idea of a panoramic frame to present this image is very forward thinking. The even spread of light from all four corners, top to bottom is superb. The lighting in particular, very subtle indeed. Last but not least, the outline of a diver and torch way behind in the blue water background. All of these elements together create huge depth perspective throughout. I find this particular image nothing short of magnificent!" — Martin Edge
Our 360 video from Norway was represented at this festival in the dome cinema! Watching the northern lights in such a format is an incredible pleasure. The audience enjoyed it a lot!
Our 360 movie was shown at the Cannes Festival the other day! The largest yachting festival in the world, the Cannes Yachting Festival 2019, ended in the Gulf of Cannes. Our friends and partners from the Dream Yacht Charter traditionally participated in this event and demonstrated there our panoramic video in the virtual reality glasses!
The second part of the special project “Theater Day” has been published on the TASS news agency website. This time a 360° virtual tour we have been working on is dedicated to the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and the process of making the play “Blessed Ksenia. Love story". Fascinating bird's-eye views of St. Petersburg, rehearsals, preparing the stage and the auditorium before the performance, dressing rooms and much more - all behind-the-scene things that you are curious to know and see with your own eyes, are now available in a virtual format. Come and enjoy!
We were filiming from several points from different cameras. Special thanks to our reliable partners from www.Insta360.ru for the camera.
Laval Virtual Asia 2019 – an Exhibition and Conference on VR&AR and Immersive Techniques took place in Qingdao, China from June 27th to 29th. This year 3000 visitors, 180 exhibitors and 150 speakers attended the conference. AirPano was represented by Sergey Semenov and our Chinese partner Jasmine Lee from JSMVR.
Yesterday, in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, the "Golden Turtle" International Wildlife Festival presented an exhibition of the best works of photographers from around the world. The exhibition "Planet Earth. Fragile Perfection" is dedicated to World Earth Day, the main goal of which is to involve the public into environmental issues. Two works by Sergey Rumyantsev — "Gannet colony after rain" and "Water billiards" — and one work by Mike Reyfman are included in this unique collection.
The winners of the most prestigious panoramic photo contest Epson International Pano Awards have been announced. Oleg Gaponyuk took first place in the VR/360 nomination with his split panorama of Jellyfish Bay. Oleg is the winner of the VR category for the third year in a row! Sergey Rumyantsev took the fifth place with his panorama of the Baikal Lake. Apart from that, 4 panoramas by Oleg and 1 panorama by Ivan Roslyakov are in the Top-20. AirPano has been winning in this contest since 2013.
The WCVRI (World Conference on VR Industry) took place in Nanchang, China, from October 19th till 21th. Sergey Semenov was one of the speakers and told about the technology of shooting 360° content. There were also AirPano videos on Lenovo, Visbit, PicoVR and UtoVR stands. The goverments of China and Nanchang County organized a VR disctrict with 4 floors of VR experiences
Astronauts see the Earth as glorious blue ball. But you don't need to fly to the Space to see the beauty of our planet. Just watch our video, where we have combined the best "planets" of Russia. There will be a following of the most interesting planet views of the world.
4 years after our app AirPano Travel Book has been relased, Apple continue to pay attention to it. This time it was on WWDC, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. The conference take place in San Jose, USA from 4 till 9 June.
AirPano is participating in the International Conference about Virtual Reality and Panoramic Photography — IVRPA 2018. This event is now taking place in Tokyo from May 29-31, where our company is represented by Sergey Semenov.
Today our video was featured at the Cannes Festival! A 37-minute movie called «Journey around the World» about the most amazing attractions of nature (including the Arctic and Antarctica, America and Asia) was presented in a special VR section.
"Japan: traditions and modernity" open-air exhibition is taking place in Moscow from 1 till 31 March. Among the photos of Japan by Russian photographers there are 5 made by our photographer Dmitry Moiseenko.
The anniversary and final exhibition of the largest photo exploration in Russia — The Best of Russia — takes place from 22 March till May 13 in the center of contemporary art "Winzavod" in Moscow. Sergey Semenov has become the winner in the category "100 best photos throughout the history of the project" with his photo of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
There is a Moscow Dive Show 2018 from 1 till 4 February. Besides underwater photos by Oleg Gaponyuk, there are underwater 360° videos in VR headsets, filmed by our great author Alexey Tishchenko.
AirPano continues to please us by showing wonderful places of our planet not only virtually! Anyone in Moscow can visit the open-air exhibition "60 years on the wings of Morocco" for free. This exhibition is devoted to 60 years anniversary of the Royal Air Maroc company. Visitors of the exhibition have a chance to win 2 tickets to Morocco, if they publish photos in Instagram with required hashtags and mentioning of the airline's profile.
The exhibition is taking place on Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow from 19 September till 19 October.
13 photos by AirPano are shown on the "Planet of Contrasts" exhibition by National Geographic Russia. Exhibition takes place on Mega Khimki Mall in Moscow, from 5 till 29 October.
AirPano CEO Sergey Semenov has returned from China, where he met with leading representatives of such companies as Tencent, Huawei, Xiaomi, Insta360, Digital Domain, Pico VR, Varis. During his stay Sergey had time to visit Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu and hold several workshops.
Rose Calendars has released interactive calendars with our panoramas. There is new panorama for every month, with QR code to this panorama in 360° format. These calendars won Gold at the World Calendar Awards in the USA, the Trophy for Communicative Products at the Promotional Gift Awards held in Europe and Best Innovative Corporate Calendar at the NCA Awards in London.
Recently we've released our new app AirPano City Book for iOS. Now the app is featured in App Store!
AirPano City Bookis a collection of unique spherical photo panoramas of the most amazing cities in the world shot from a bird's eye view. City Book takes you on exciting journeys through some of the most photogenic places on Earth, using virtual tours. The company's aerial panorama technology lets viewers experience soaring through the sky above the some of most beautiful cities in the world, with tours of New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Rome, Shanghai, Buenos Aires and Moscow.
There is an exhibition called "Primordial Russia" with AirPano photos that is taking place in the Central House of Artists, Moscow from 20th January till the 11th of March. "Primordial Russia" is one of the biggest and interesting photo-festivals in Russia. It started 2014 and became an annual event and each time attracting more and more connoisseurs of Russian nature. During the first month unique photos made by nature photographers are demonstrated in Moscow, then the exhibition moves to other cities and countries.
From 2 till 5 February Moscow held an exhibition called "Moscow Dive Show 2017". Some of the best underwater photos of the founder of AirPano project Oleg Gaponyuk and our friend Maxim Guzovsky has been presented on this exciting event.
A new edition of GEO France Collection appeared yesterday at the news-stands of France. This issue is dedicated to the filming of 360° content and completely consists of AirPano photos! The magazine also released the new app in French language which you can use to watch our best photo panoramas from around the globe on your iPhones and iPads.
We have received our prizes for Trierenberg Super Cicruit 2016. Let us recall, that AirPano has been announced as the Best Digital Files Club on the World's Largest Photo Salon — Trierenberg Super Cicruit. Our photographers have become winners and medalists: Sergey Rumyantsev with the image of the Northern lights in Stoksness, Iceland; Sergey Semenov with the photo from Tupiza, Bolivia; Mike Reyfman with his photo from Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina and Stas Sedov with the panorama of Burj Khalifa, Dubai.
From May 3 till June 20 Moscow held an exhibition called "Orthodox temples of Russia: a view through time". AirPano photos were also presented there. The exhibition took place on the Patriarch bridge in the open sky. The exposition consisted of more than 50 feature photos made by representatives of three generations of Russian landscape photographers.
Great news! We have launched 3 apps for Apple TV-2. Now our collection of the most beautiful parts of the world from a bird's view is available on the following applications: AirPano City, AirPano Nature и AirPano Night. Browse the App Store for them. Enjoy the view.
On the 14th of July in the frames of Russian Photo Week AirPano will be giving a workshop at the Gallery of Classical Photography (Moscow) from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. Sergey Semenov is going to speak about VR, 360 technology and drones.
The Global Arctic Awards exhibition has opened today at the Photo Center on Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow. Best photos of the Arctic taken during the last two seasons by 70 photographers from 15 countries are presented there. You can also find AirPano masterpieces at this event.
We paricipate in the Intermuseum festival. Visitors can watch our panorama through binocular by "Noon" studio. The festival is taking place in Moscow, from 13th till 16th May.
We are glad to tell you that our project AirPano has been announced as the Best Digital Files Club on the World's Largest Photo Salon — Trierenberg Super Cicruit. Our photographers have become winners and medalists: Sergey Rumyantsev with the image of the Northern lights in Stoksness, Iceland; Sergey Semenov with the photo from Tupiza, Bolivia; Mike Reyfman with his photo from Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina and Stas Sedov with the panorama of Burj Khalifa, Dubai.
After taking part in the "Primeval Russia" festival the works of AirPano took off to the Classical photo gallery. These photos will be presented from March 23 till May 8 and on the 9th of April an audience with Sergey Shandin — one of the authors — will take place. On this account Sergey talked on the radio "Our Suburban Moscow" in the show "High time" on the 1st of April.
There is an exhibition called "Primordial Russia" with AirPano photos that is taking place in the Central House of Artists, Moscow from 22th January till the 25th of February. "Primordial Russia" is one of the biggest and interesting photo-festivals in Russia. It started 2014 and became an annual event and each time attracting more and more connoisseurs of Russian nature. During the first month unique photos made by nature photographers are demonstrated in Moscow, then the exhibition moves to other cities and countries. More than 2 million people have visited this festival in 70 counties in the past 2 years.
We have published the book "AirPano. Best photos of the world from above"! It is our first printed book and we keep our fingers crossed that our followers would like it as much as our virtual tours at our web-site.
Language: Russian.
Size: 24x27 cm, 192 pages.
We have gathered our best photos from all most interesting parts of the world. Each of them also has a particular description of the place it illustrates.
In a few days we will publish a virtual tour of Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano eruption taking place right now in Kamchatka. Today we would like to recall once again our shooting of Plosky Tolbachik volcano eruption in 2012 and show the video about our work in Kamchatka, created by "The Weather Channel".
In September edition of the Welt der Wunder magazine AirPano photos were published. Spherical panoramas in the form of planets of 8 famous cities of the world were published in the article "Die welt von oben" ("The world from above").
AirPano took part in CubeArt exhibition in Moscow. The exhibition will feature a unique kind of modern art made by CubeWorksStudio and panoramas made by AirPano. Exhibition will be in the Center of Design "ArtPlay" from 30th May till 30th July.
Exhibition of photocontest "Golden Turtle" moved from St.Petersburg to Moscow. This year 3 photos by Dmitry Moiseenko and 1 photo by Mike Reyfman became winners and finalists of the contest. Exhibition presents 200 of the best photos of participants from 77 countries, including photos by AirPano project. Festival of Wild Nature "Golden Turtle" will be in the Central House of Artists from 28th June till 20th July.
There will be the 8th "Long Night of Museums" in Moscow on saturday, 17th May. Panoramas of AirPano project will be broadcast on the wall of Center of Design "Artplay" from 11 p.m.
On 28th Februaty was a ceremony of announcement of results of the 8th photocontest "Golden Turtle". Photo "Awakening of the volcano", which was taken by Dmitry Moiseenko for AirPano project, is one of the laureates in the category "Landscape". We also congratulate Dmitry Moiseenko on the fact that another his photo "As yet... ugly penguin" is a laureate in the category "Portrait of an animal". Photo "Bryce Canyon" by Mike Reyfman, who made this photo also for AirPano project, was in the final of the contest. The best photos of the competition are in the exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. Exhibition presents 160 of the best photos selected from 15,000 submitted to the contest from 59 countries. The exhibition will be in St. Petersburg from 1st March till 18th May. This exhibition will be in Moscow from 27th June till 20th July.
There will be an exhibition «Primordial Russia» in the Central House of Artists, Moscow from 25th January till 23th February. There will be shown more than 200 unique photos. There is no human, no industrial landscapes in this exhibition — there is only nature, animal world and unrepeatable landscapes of all Russian regions. There will be 13 bird's eye view photos by AirPano, including photos from lake Baikal and Kamchatka. Our photos, which will be in the exhibition, you can see in the gallery.
There is Sretensky theological seminary in Moscow — an institution of Russian Orthodox Church, that studies and prepares Orthodox priests. It is located at the Sretensky Monastery. Our panorama «Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on the Nerl River, Russia» is printed in very big size (shorter side is two meters long). This panorama decorates one of the walls at the classroom of «Holy Russia».
There is an exhibition of the international photofestival «100 Wonders of the World» in St.Petersburg, Russia. There are photos of AirPano photographers Sergey Semenov and Dmitry Moiseenko. The exhibition is open from 1th January till 2nd March.
GEO published large panoramic calendar «Der Blick ins Weite» for 2014 («Gazing into the Distance» in free translation from German). This calendar contains only photos taken by AirPano (authors of the photos are O. Gaponyuk, D. Moiseenko, S. Rumyantsev, S. Semenov). When author's copies came from a custom house, we found out that 10 calendars weight nothing less than 70 kilograms. German puctuality is amazing: calendar complect includes set of details for fastening on a wall and even a rope.
In August 2013 our photography team consisting of Sergei Semenov and Stanislav Sedov went to Africa to shoot crossing - the antelope migration. The most dramatic moment of migration is river crossing by thousands of animals. This photo expedition was a challenging one for AirPano team...
In August 2013 our photography team consisting of Sergei Semenov and Stanislav Sedov went to Africa to shoot crossing - the antelope migration. The most dramatic moment of migration is river crossing by thousands of animals. This photo expedition was a challenging one for AirPano team...
At the end of August VGTRK (RUSSIA TV channel) crew filmed a story about AirPano shooting aerial spherical panoramas of Kremlin. On Saturday, September 7ththe story was featured in "Saturday News" on Russia-1 channel.
Also on September 7th "RIA Novosty" website published an article and a video story about AirPano project and the virtual tour above Kremlin dedicated to Moscow City Day.
4th Epson International Pano Awards 2013 http://www.thepanoawards.com/ ended with impressive results for AirPano team. Dmitry Moiseenko was first in "VR / 360 Photo" category, he also won 1st and 3rd places in "Architecture" category for professional photographers.
AirPano team members took all three awards in "360 Pano" category:
1 - Dmitry Moiseenko
2 - Dmitry Moiseenko
3 - Ivan Roslyakov
Top 10 of the Best of Show contains 7 photographs from AirPano: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th places. Moreover, Best 50 Spherical Panoramas of 2013 include 24 panoramic pictures taken by AirPano team! You can view the top VR/360 video slideshow presentation here.
It is worth mentioning that Sergey Semenov took the first prize of the competition in 2012, and Oleg Gaponyuk was named the panoramic photographer of the year in 2011.
On 30th of April President of Russia V. V. Putin handed Sergei Semenov, the representative of AirPano team, the Grant Certificate from the Russian Geographic Society (RGS)...
Our photographer Ivan Roslyakov went up to 7100 meters (23294 feet) in a helicopter. This is an absolute record for rescue helicopters in Nepal. In order to make the flight, a pilot even sacrificed Ivan's oxygen tank. Despite the life-threatening conditions, the photographer managed to shoot several aerial panoramas of Mount Everest from unique angles.
The laureates of people choice award of Runet 2012 were announced on the 21st of November during their official award ceremony. The projects AirPano, Yarmarka Masterov, This is Horosho and Warface were awarded 4 kilogram statues covered with gold. Thank you so much to everyone who was voting for us during the November 2012!
At the end of September AirPano team finished a huge project. We completed aerial photographs of hotels located on the shoreline of Antalya, Turkey.
Within a month of a fieldwork we accomplished the task that seemed impossible two years ago: we took aerial photographs of over 300 hotels. In addition to that we created spherical aerial panoramas of 188 of them!
In the nearest future Russian tourists will have an opportunity to choose their vacation destination by looking at hotels from unconventional angles on the website of one of the larges Russian travel agencies.
Our colleague Andrey Ershov reached the North Pole with the arctic expedition on board of "50 Let Pobedy" (50th Anniversary of Victory), the most powerful ice breaker ship in the world. Of course, he photographed it, and so from now there is a North Pole on the AirPano's map. Virtual tour of the trip will be ready within 2 months.
With the help of our colleague Denis Netwind Efremov AirPano conquered the near space by reaching the stratosphere.This was an amazing adventure. Although we are still going through the footage, it is obvious that we managed to create a spherical panorama of the Earth from a height of 30 kilometers.
Today, on June 13, Sergey Semenov talked about the AirPano project at NYC2012 - the International Panoramic Photography Conference. Our team is currently flying all over the world's wonders shooting airborne panoramas. AirPano is a noncommercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas creation. Our mission is to show the beauty of the world from the air to all people in a way they never seen before. Sergey told about our recent achivements: we have made aerial virtual tours over the most famous wonders, landmarks and cities from different places around the world: Pyramids of Egypt, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, Iguassu Falls, Victoria Falls, Easter Island, Grand Canyon, Kremlin, Angel Falls, Yellowstone, New York, Dubai, Neuschwanstein Castle, Sydney Opera House, San Francisco Bay, Hong Kong Harbor etc. totaling more than 500 panoramas around 100 places shot from helicopters, light jets, dirigibles, air balloons and radio-controlled helicopter models.
Sergey Rumyantsev won a gold medal in the biggest European photography award TRIERENBERG SUPER CIRCUIT 2012. His work "For real fisherman minus thirty is not a big deal" was selected in the section "Natural Enviroment".
In January edition of the Photo&Technic Magazine (N1 (41), 2012), Photo school section, the article about AirPano project along with a feature story by Sergey Semenov were published. His feature story is dedicated to the planet stitching methods from plain projections of spherical panoramas in Photoshop.
It's couple of days before the opening of the second Moscow exhibition "World Seen by the Russians" www.MirGR.ru
The open-air exhibition on Tverskoy Boulevard will take place from April 23, 2011 till June 30, 2011. AirPano team participants Oleg Gaponyuk, Mike Reyfman and Sergey Semenov will take part in this event. Here you can see the reportage from the first year exhibition and here see the reportage from the year 2011 exhibition.
The Taj Mahal holds one of the most important places in the list of "The New 7 Wonders of the World".
Despite its Muslim origin, this white marble Necropolis has actually become a symbol of India. Serious safety measures are taken in order to preserve it. The 500 meters area around the complex is equipped to serve as a special protection zone.
Cars have to park 2 kilometers away from the entrance so the tourists can get there with rickshaws, carts or electric vehicles, as it is believed that the exhaust gases can make the marble cladding go yellow. Even on the other side of the river Yamuna, on the banks of which it is located, the area is protected with a barbed wire fence.
Security guards' numbers are in their hundreds.
In 1997, the famous Frenchman Bertrand took a picture of the Taj Mahal from a helicopter. For 15 years after that there was no permission granted to shoot the monument from above. But AirPano has managed to achieve the impossible: we have received this permission, and at this moment our photographers Dmitry Moiseenko and Stanislav Sedov are on their way back to Moscow with the footage. A virtual tour of the photo-shoot will appear on the website in May.
AirPano.ru became the subject to the reportage shown in news program Vesti, Russia-2 TV channel. The heroes of the reportage are Sergey Semenov and Stanislav Sedov. You can watch the online version of the reportage on "YouTube"
Tomorrow our photographer Dmitry Moiseenko is flying to get a shot of Everest. The photo session from 6500 meters is going to be extremely difficult. The outsite temperature is expected as low as -35 °C (-31 °F). Good luck Dima and we hope the good weather will be with you!
Our project was included in the gallery Google Earth in Travel and Tourism section. You can download KML file whih contains our panoramas from here. 3D model of our planet (with height above sea level), which is viewed on a monitor's screen, is used in Google Earth. The main difference between Google Earth and well-known Google Maps consists exactly in the 3D-lanscapes of the Earth's surface.
You can find our project both in online version of Google Earth and directly in the section Gallery of Google Earth in your computer.
The winners of the national contest Landscape of Russia were announced. There are three creative works by Sergey Rumyantsev and Sergey Semenov among the finalists. The photo by Sergey Rumyantsev "Fishing. Series - Children of the Outskirts" took the second prize in the category "Man and Landscape". The creative work "In the Morning" by Sergey Semenov was honoured with the special prize of the National Geographic Traveler.
The open air exhibition of the best creative works is opened on Manezhnaya Square between the Moskva Hotel and Okhotniy Ryad shopping mall from September,01 till October,15.
In July edition of the Photomasterskaya Magazine (N74, 2011), Expert section, the article about AirPano project along with a feature story by Sergey Semenov were published. His feature story is dedicated to the planet stitching methods from plain projections of spherical panoramas in Photoshop.
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. So, read the second part of the story from Dmitry Moiseenko.
In spite of the active stage of the volcano's eruption has already finished and there is only a stream of 100 meters height left from 20 km steam and ashes jet, we, however, decided to fly till the volcano as we were able to reach Iceland. Below you can find D. Moiseenko's story about the flight.
On Sunday, May 22, in Iceland the eruption of the Grímsvötn began. The height of a smoke and ashes cloud was up to 20 km. On Tuesday when we decided to send Dmitry Moiseenko for the shooting the height of the ashes cloud became 5 km. On Wednesday, in the morning, Dima left Moscow but the cloud went down to 2 km. And when DIma landed in Reykjavik the low-down volcano became extinct :)
Frankly speaking, last year another volcano named Eyjafjatlajökudl (the name rose from my memory) had almost finished its eruption too when we were close to its crater. So, we could only enjoy the steam clouds. On Hawaii red-hot lava stopped flowing onto the sea when our helicopter flew there. We left and next day the lava flow recommenced.
From April 1 till April 30, 2011 there will be the personal exhibition of Oleg Gaponyuk named Sides of the World in the Central House of Journalists (Moscow, Nikitsky Boulevard, 8a). Except traditional landscape photography, the creative works shot in the sky over the unique places of our planet's five continents will be exposed on the exhibition. On the two-meter canvases the landscapes are becoming alive completely opening an amazing nature beauty.
The exhibition's coordinator is Sergey Semenov. His tel. number: +7 (903) 215-1263
We are about to finish our new virtual tour of The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, Russia. Last year we were awaiting for the fly permition for several monthsand eventually we were awarded with the beautiful autumn flights. We shot more than fifteen spheric panoramas. Eight of them will be presented on our site. This year to complete the tour we are going to add ground panoramas from The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and take a shots of interior of cathedrals and churches.
The «World seen by the Russians» open air exhibition, in which AirPano.ru from the part of Oleg Gaponyuk takes part and which are holding on Tverskoy Boulevard, will go on till the 1-st of June. Welcome! The entrance is free! Here you can see the reportage from this exhibition right on the screen of your monitor.
Last week in Moscow sky we shot several high resolution spherical panoramas. It was the start of “Moscow from Bird’s Eye View” Virtual Tour. Though even much time ago, still last year, we flew over all MEH (Moscow Encircling Highway), but we couldn’t fly over Moscow. The panoramas will be represented to be viewed soon.
Five second. Is it much or not for a photographer? This May we have been able to find an answer to this question. We could fly over Red Square on the board of one of the helicopters which took part in the Victory Parade rehearsal. It takes a helicopter 5 seconds to get St. Basil's Cathedral from the State Historical Museum at a speed of 250 km/h. It's necessary to have time to lean out of the window and overcoming the strong air flow to combine the shots which include closed flying helicopters and main points of Red Square. This shot was made by Sergey Semenov during the first Victory Parade rehearsal. A little bit later we'll tell you about the second shooting which was several days later.
There is a new panorama over the Statue of Liberty Unfortunately, the pilot couldn’t go closer though before the start had promised to go 100 meters close to the statue. In this case we would see the tourists walking inside the crown on head of the Liberty. Here it is the link to the panorama over the Statue of Liberty .
The Moscow Photoclub supported by the Photosafari Club presents the exhibition «World Seen by the Russians». This event will hold from April 20, 2010 till May 16, 2010 on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow under patronage of the Moscow City Government and supported by the Moscow City Department of Consumer Market and Services. The Airpano Team also represents its works there. A rare format of an open-air exhibition will allow thousands of Muscovites and Moscow visitors enjoying the art of photography. The best works of the last several years of travelling will be exhibited in the framework of the vernisage.
When the demonstration in Moscow is over, the open-air exhibition «World Seen by the Russians», in which AirPano.ru represented by Oleg Gaponyuk takes part, will go on in the Alexander Garden (near the Russian Admiralty) in Saint Petersburg from June 11, 2010 till June 30, 2010. Welcome!
After Moscow and St. Petersburg the open-air exhibition «World Seen by the Russians», in which AirPano.ru represented by Oleg Gaponyuk takes part, is moving to Veliky Novgorod, in the Kremlin. It will last from August 3, 2010 till August 23, 2010. Welcome!
We realized test technical shooting from a helicopter in St. Petersburg we were preparing for almost a year. We flew by a huge helicopter Mi-8. We tried to realize this shooting just in August when had come in St. Petersburg, but we were not lucky in weather: it was raining and we just measured the helicopter with a tape measure J Then the shooting was successful and now we are planning to make a virtual tour over the city on the Neva River if we are lucky. We are grateful to the Aeroecology Company for the flight organization.
Our helicopter shooting in St. Petersburg has been held. The sun was shining for 2 days and we could arrive from Moscow to shoot. After that the weather became bad again. Now the files are passing through the military legalization procedure and soon we'll able to show the shots on the site.
We have tried to shoot Moscow for a long time, but we never succeeded in shooting the city we live in, thought 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. Taking in consideration these administrative restrictions we applied our creativity and resolved this problem by the following:
1) First, we made a virtual tour over the interchanges of Moscow Encircling Highway (MEH). 2) The sphere was shot from the height of 1000m. The most part of Moscow and its region can be viewed from that point. 3) In May 2010 near Crocus-City Moscow panorama of high resolution (approx 1 Gig pixel) was shot from the height of 1000m. 4) In Moscow itself we realized several photo-sessions with a radio-controlled helicopter.
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The photo-exhibition of Dmitry Arkhipov and Oleg Gaponyuk named Five Sides of the Worldwill take place in hall 9 on the second floor of the Central House of Artists. The zest of the exhibition is, undoubtedly, a size of the exposing works. On the 2-meter canvases the landscapes are becoming alive and fully show us an amazing beauty of the nature .
Address: CHA, Krymskiy Val 10. (Underground stations are Oktiabrskaya or Park Kultury). Open hours: daily from 11:00 till 20:00; it is closed on Mondays. Tickets' price is 80-200 rubles, tel.: (499) 238-9634, exhibition coordinator is Anastasia Fedina (916) 160-2240
Invitation: Dear Friends, we invite all of you to visit the grand opening of the exhibition, which will hold on December 24 at 18:00. On December 24 from 16:00 you can visit the exhibition free, having printed our invitation.
The sphere from the warm waters of Maldives opens the series of our underwater spherical panoramas... This is the first sphere, shot by us under water. Due to a new theme of our spherical panoramas we decided to make a separate site located on www.AquaPano.ru
The authors are Dmitry Arkhipov and Oleg Gaponyuk. December 22 till January 9.
On December 24, Friday, the grand opening of Five Sides of the World of Oleg Gaponyuk and Dmitry Arkhipov, landscape exhibitions, took place. The exhibition will be opened till January 9 in the Central House of Artists on Krymskiy Val. Here is the virtual tour from the grand opening .
This year five works by Oleg Gaponyuk, Sergey Semenov and Sergey Rumiantsev reached the finals and ending exhibition of Golden Tortoise 2010 contest. The finalists' works will be exhibited from the 11-th till the 27-th of March 2011 in New Manège, Moscow city.
The spherical panoramas creating in the sky supposes that a flying machine hovers in the air (as a rule, it is a helicopter or a radio-controlled model) and revolves on its axis. However, there were no helicopters on Maldives and for the first time in our practice we had to shoot a spherical panorama from a seaplane... Oh, that wasn't the easiest thing to make a pilot stop the seaplane in the air and rotate it J But we succeeded in doing it. The results of the shooting you can see here.
Today our colleague and excellent photographer Dima Moiseenko takes off to the other end of the Earth, to Venezuela, for shooting Angel Fall - the highest waterfall in the world where water falls from the height of one thousand meters just changing into water spray at the bottom. Let's wish him fine weather and good luck!
Last October we shot in St. Petersburg. Along with art photography one of the tasks was the training in creation in the air of ultra high resolution panoramas. Finally, our developments were successfully practically tested and in the air of St. Petersburg the panoramas of 18.000x9.000 resolution were shot. That, as we know, hasn't been realized by anybody in the world yet.
In order the panorama's demonstration is good a very powerful computer is needed to view images made in such high resolution and, unfortunately, everybody hasn't got such kind of computer. Another alternative way is to show panoramas part by part when the computer downloads exactly the part which is being viewed by a spectator. This way is widely used in the Internet to demonstrate Giga-pixel panoramas shot from the Earth.
At present time we are finishing processing the ultra high resolution panoramas shot over St. Petersburg and in the nearest time they will be exposed on the site.
It's couple of days before the opening of the second Moscow exhibition "World Seen by the Russians" www.MirGR.ru
The open-air exhibition on Tverskoy Boulevard will take place from April 23, 2011 till June 30, 2011. AirPano team participants Oleg Gaponyuk, Mike Reyfman and Sergey Semenov will take part in this event. Here you can see the reportage from the last year exhibition right on your computer monitor.
Tourustic base from above
Moneron from the North
Moneron from the height of 500 meters
Manpupuner from the height of 500 meters
Pillars from the touristic route 4
Pillars from the touristic route 3
Pillars from the touristic route 2
Pillars from the touristic route
Manpupuner from the hill
Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Male from above
Male from above
Male from above
View of the island of Male from the north
View of the island of Male from the north
The Cape Peninsula from above
The Cape Peninsula from above
Cape Town from above
Cape Town from above
Sevan Lake from above
Landscapes in 20 km from Lake Sevan and Martuni
Maldives from above
Resorts of the Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Maldives from above
Romantic Maldives
Ogoy Island from above
Sevan Lake from above
Sevanavank monastery from above
Sevan Lake from above
Entrance to the Chandelier cave from above
Ngerchaol Island from above
São Luís center from above
São Luís from above
Kunashir Island from above
Kunashir from above
Waterfall from above
Cape Stolbchaty from above
Round bales from above
Round bales from above
Uglich from above
Los Angeles from above
City from above
Cascais from above
Coast of the Sea of Okhotsk from above
White cliffs from above
White cliffs from above
White cliffs from above
White cliffs from above
Indonesia, Bromo volcano, Java
Indonesia, Bromo volcano, Java
Indonesia, Bromo volcano, Java
Amman's Roman Theatre
Amman's Roman Theatre
Amman's Roman Theatre from above
Amman from an altitude of 300 meters
Amman from an altitude of 300 meters
Amman from above
Amman Citadel from an altitude of 120 meters
Guatemala City from above
Guatemala City from above
Guatemala City from above
City center from above
City center from above
Las Vegas from above
Las Vegas from above
Etretat from above
Lake Onega from above
Islets of Lake Onega from above
Fira from above
Fira from above
Fira from above
Fira from above
Fira from above. Panorama
Samaba Terraces from above
Samaba Terraces from above
Kalyan Mosque from above
Exit from the Temple of Doom
Exit from the Temple of Doom
Exit from the Temple of Doom
Sivuchya Rock and Cape Aniva from above
Sivuchya Rock from above
Times Square from above
Shooting in Swiss Alps from helicopter. Sergey Semenov and Stas Sedov
Shooting in Swiss Alps from helicopter
Kuntivaara hill from an altitude of 300 meters
Chapel in the name of the Not-Made-by-Hand Image from Vigovo village
Chapel in the name of the Not-Made-by-Hand Image from Vigovo village
Chapel of the Resurrection of Lazarus from Murom Monastery
Chapel in the name of the Not-Made-by-Hand Image from Vigovo village
Chapel in the name of the Not-Made-by-Hand Image from Vigovo village
Kizhi Island from above
Cape Aniva from above
Sivuchya Rock and Cape Aniva from above
Sivuchya Rock from above
The Sea Walls Promenade. Tel Aviv, Israel
The Sea Walls Promenade
Jellyfish Lake from above
Aqaba from above
Panorama of Aqaba from above
Medina from above
Lalla Aouda Square from above
Meknes from an altitude of 200 meters
Meknes from an altitude of 200 meters
Lalla Aouda Square from an altitude of 200 meters
Lalla Aouda Square from an altitude of 200 meters
Meknes from an altitude of 200 meters
Maze from an altitude of 500 meters
Maze from an altitude of 500 meters
Maze from an altitude of 500 meters
Maze from an altitude of 500 meters
Maze from above
Maze from above
From Bird islet to Motu Nautonga (Sea Cucumber islet)
From Bird islet to Motu Mannikiba (Seabird islet)
From Fishball islet to Motu Mannikiba (Seabird islet)
Caroline atoll from 1000 meter above
View from South island
Caroline Atoll from above
Chara Sands at sunrise from above
Chara Sands at sunrise from above
Chara Sands at sunrise from above
Chara Sands at sunrise from above
Desert from above
Chara Sands from above
Belfast City Hall from above
Belfast City Hall from above
Belfast City Hall from above
Motu Reiono from the Pacific Ocean
Motu Reiono from the Pacific Ocean
The lagoon of Tetiaroa. Showers from the North. Planet
The lagoon of Tetiaroa. Showers from the North
The lagoon of Tetiaroa. Showers from the North
The lagoon of Tetiaroa. Showers from the North
Sasyk Lake from above. Planet
Sasyk Lake from above. Planet
Sasyk Lake from above
Sasyk Lake from above
Sasyk Lake from above
Yevpatoria from above
Lake Hibara from above
Lake Hibara from above
Crater lake Lagoa das Furnas from above
Zermatt from above
On the way from Death Valley to Valley of Geysers. Kamchatka, Russia
Fenghuang Town from above
Detian falls from Chinese side
Detian Falls from above
View from the Celestial Capital Peak (Tian Du Feng)
View from the Celestial Capital Peak (Tian Du Feng)
Huangshan mountains from above. Panorama
Huangshan mountains from above
Huangshan mountains from above
Fancy salt patterns from an altitude of 200 meters
Fancy salt patterns from an altitude of 200 meters
Fancy salt patterns from an altitude of 20 meters
Beaches of Ein Bokek from an altitude of 100 meters
Dead Sea near Neve Zohar village from an altitude of 500 meters
Above the lake in Texas from an altitude of 500 meters
Above the lake in Texas from an altitude of 500 meters
Vertical cliffs close to Vromi. Zakynthos, Greece
Cliffs close to Vromi
Vertical cliffs close to Vromi
Mars-2 from above
View from the Bund, Shanghai, China (30840x12382 px)
City view from Victoria Peak
City view from Victoria Peak
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from an altitude of 700 meters
Hong Kong from above
Shanghai. View from the Bund
View from the Bund
Istanbul from above
Near the city of Djanet from an altitude of 100 meters
Tassili n’Ajjer National Park from above
Sahara Desert from drone
Sahara Desert from drone
Sahara Desert from above
Alstrom Point, Lake Powell
Alstrom Point, Lake Powell
Solovetsky Monastery from above
Solovetsky Monastery in winter from above
Solovetsky Monastery in winter from above
Alstrom Point, Lake Powell, Utah/Arizona, USA
Alstrom Point, Lake Powell, Utah/Arizona, USA
Eiffel Tower from the altitude of 200 meters
Eiffel Tower from the altitude of 200 meters
Eiffel Tower, Parc du Champ de Mars from the altitude of 200 meters
Eiffel Tower, Parc du Champ de Mars from the altitude of 200 meters
Rond-Point des Champs-Elysees from the altitude of 200 meters
Arc de Triomphe from the altitude of 40 meters
Macau from above
Macau from above
View on the falls from the Naipi Square observation point (Brazilian side)
San Martin island from the height of 150 meters
Devil’s throat from the height of 150 meters (Argentine side)
Devil’s throat from the height of 150 meters (Argentine side)
View from the glass bridge to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
View from the glass bridge to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
View from the glass bridge to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
View from the glass bridge to the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge from above
Quito from above
Quito from above
Young stallion Pepper fleeing from Aven, harem stallion. Pre-Ural Steppe
Pre-Ural Steppe from above
Brasília from above
Danxia from above
Danxia from above
Danxia from above
Danxia from above
Zhangye National Geopark from 1000 meters
Danxia from above
Yardangs from above
Yardangs from above
Yardangs from above
Clouds from the ocean above Valley of Geysers
Clouds from the ocean above Valley of Geysers
Clouds from the ocean above Valley of Geysers
Geyser complex "Vitrazh" from the altitude of 50 meters
Geyser complex "Vitrazh" from the altitude of 50 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
Valley of Geysers from an altitude of 1000 meters
View on castle from the north
Shoubak Castle from the west
Castle from the west
View on castle from the north
Shoubak Castle from above
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Death Valley from an altitude of 500 meters
Kaliningrad Stadium from above
Manhattan at night from above
Manhattan at night from above
East River from above
Manhattan from above
Wadi Rum from above. Panorama
Chillon Castle from above
Vineyards from above
Vineyards from above
Lausanne from above
Kuala Lumpur from above
Alcázar of Toledo from above
Khoboy Cape from the altitude of 1000 meters
Olkhon Island from the altitude 1000 meters
Mir Castle from the lake
Mir Castle from above. Panorama
Mir Castle from above
Inner courtyard from above
Inner courtyard from rooftop
View of the castle from the earthen shaft
Abbey of Montserrat from above
Abbey of Montserrat from above
Abbey of Montserrat from above
Donkey with a load of skins
Old towers
The fortress wall and the medina of Fez
The fortress wall and the medina of Fez
Chouara tannery #6
Chouara tannery #5
Chouara tannery #4
The first rays of the sun in the old town
Old City Wall and Towers
Medina
Uzon caldera from above
Panorama of Uzon caldera from above
Pointe Camille, La Digue from an altitude of 410 meters
Western Thermal Field from an altitude of 150 meters. Planet
Western Thermal Field from an altitude of 150 meters
Everest sunset view from Renjo La Pass
Uzon from drone
Uzon caldera from drone
Manta rays. Planet from split panorama
Port Grimaud from above
Kasbah of the Udayas from above. Planet
Panorama of Rabat from above
Rabat from an altitude of 200 meters
Medina from above
Above Medina from an altitude of 125 meters
Hassan Tower from an altitude of 300 meters
Rabat from above
Mahaddhoo Island from above
Above the Panda base from 350 meters
Panda base, Chengdu city view from 1000 meters
