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).
The results of the 2nd international competition for underwater photography "Neptune Stars-2020", which was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of "Neptune" magazine, were summed up. Oleg Gaponyuk took the 1st place in 'Photo with diver' category and 3rd place in 'Wide angle' category.
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.
Sergey Semenov took a third place in the "Japan: a country where everything is different" photo contest. he contest was organized by the Moscow office of the Japanese National Tourism Organization and took place on the official website of the National Geographic Russia.
"A spontaneous trip to the area of Khibara turned out to be an unexpected success. While the maple leaves were turning red in Tokyo, the first snow fell there. After a long night trip, nature gave us a great gift — a delightful frosty sunrise and a soaring lake," — this is how photographer Sergey Semenov describes his shot.
2019 has been declared the year of Theatre in Russia, so TASS News Agency has launched a special project "Theatre Day. Virtual 360-tour to four Russian theatres". We are glad to participate in this project and introduce the first virtual tour to Russian State Academic Drama Theatre named after Fyodor Volkov in Yaroslavl. It is the place where Russian professional theatre was born in 1750. We managed not only to visit Russia's oldest theatre but also capture the teamwork: see all behind-the-scene things and dressing rooms, visit rehearsals, witnessed the stage scenery installation and, of course, enjoy the excellent performance of "The Seagull"!
Filming this kind of projects requires specific equipment and facilities, so we needed to have several shooting spots and an extra camera, for which we want to thank our partners Insta360. Insta360 Pro2 cameras have proved to be reliable in both theatrical performances and the cold at the altitude of 3,500 meters... But that's a story about our different project that we will uncover soon!
For more details go to the TASS website (and watch a 360° video).
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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.
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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.
Together with Pico company, we participate in the «China International Film & TV Programs Exhibition», where «Pico Interactive» uses AirPano content to demonstrate their VR helmets. The annual CIFTPE is a major event for film/TV program transactions in Asia, attracting global production & distribution companies as well as broadcasters. This year marks the 15th anniversary of CIFTPE with a theme of "New Era, New Accomplishments, New Chapter" showcasing how Chinese media has entered a new era.
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.
About AirPano in Japan: there is an article about our us on the centerfold of the magazine about 360° content industry. The readers of the most popular Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun found out about AirPano through the publications on the website.
The most prestigious panoramic photo contest “Epson International Pano Awards” can finally announce its winners. Oleg Gaponyuk took the first place in the VR/360 nomination with his underwater panorama, taken in Cuba. He also got the second place. He repeated his success in 2016, when he won in the same contest. The third place goes to Stanislav Sedov with his panorama of the Angel Waterfalls in Venezuela. You can find 6 works by AirPano in the Top-10. AirPano has been winning in this contest since 2013.
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.
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.
The 1st of March was a remarkable day — during this day our web-site received 2,73 million visitors and it was for the first time in the history of AirPano. Seven million people visited our site since February 26 till March 7!
Our panoramas of Egypt are shown in binoculars by Polden Studio at the 24th Moscow International Travel & Tourism Exhibition. It takes place on Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow from 14 till 16 March 2017.
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.
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.
The final jury meeting of the Russian Geographical Society photo contest “The most beautiful country” took place on September 21. Sergey Semyonov was a member of the jury. Sergey Shoygu, Sergey Gorshkov, Konstantin Ernst, Oleg Tabakov, Elena Gagarina, Dashi Namdakov, Timur Bekmambetov, Ivan Kislov and Dmitry Vinogradov evaluated the works with him. 110 000 photos of Russia were presented to the contest. Winners in 12 nominations were selected and one more “Public chosen winner” nomination is put to the vote on the web-site of the contest. The winners will be awarded on September 24. The video report can be found on the First Channel web-site.
At the present Stas Sedov having been invited by the China State agency for tourism is overseeing the beauties of the Gansu province of the country. The Silk Road festival is taking place there. Gansu is one of the most gorgeous provinces in China. The Silk Road goes right through it. The province is famous for the Yueyaquan oasis in the desert, the ancient Jiayuguan Pass of the Great Wall, The Zhangye Danxia colored landforms.
"My Chinese journey continues. Up till now I have seen herds of camels, climbed to the top of a high barchan on top of which I saw a great view. I have also experienced a sand storm that changed into a storm with sand and rain. The Sleeping Buddha in a 45-meter high cave seriously impressed me". Stas Sedov, AirPano drone operator.
A "Museum of one photo" exhibition is taking place at VDNH, Moscow. Each week the exposition is changed with a new photo. This week is represented by the #AirPano panorama in the genre of "Aerial photo shoots". Hurry up and see it before July 3.
Google Expeditions — an educational program that started not long ago and already has become very popular in child institutes all over the world — has finally issued and app for Android. There you may find AirPano panoramas. It is very pleasant when your work useful, especially for young researchers! Soon iPad and iPhone versions will be available.
On 2nd July at the Trip Secrets festival in Moscow you can watch our 360 videos from Kamtchatka on Samsung Gear VR. Entrance: free.
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.
The Russian Photo Week started yesterday, on July 7, in Moscow. In the frames of this event an exhibition of the works of winners in 35AWARDS - 100 Best Photos of 2015 is taking place. AirPano is amongst them. The exhibition is held at the Gallery of Classical Photography until 17 July. Come and see it for yourself!
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.
Today the CEO of AirPano Sergey Semenov participated in the opening ceremony of the Russian Geographical Society photo exhibition, which consists of works of the winners and finalists of the "The most beautiful country 2015" contest. Sergey is also the member of the jury for this contest this year. These photos can be found in the Moscow metro at the "Vystavochnaya" station and will be hanging there till August 3.
We are happy that our photographers once again have become winners and finalists of the international wildlife photography contest Golden Turtle 2016. Dmitry Moiseenko — the winner of the Cup — was also presented a gift-book for his picture of a volcanic eruption in Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Kamchatka, Russia in the category "Landscape". Sergey Shandin is a finalist in the category "Animals" with his photo of the giraffe. You are invited to visit the exhibition at the Central Exhibition Hall "The Moscow Manege". It closes on August 21.
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.
Nikon has launched a web-site showing the work of its Russian ambassadors in different genres. Dmitry Moiseenko, the AirPano photographer, became a Nikon ambassador in the field of aerial panoramas. In this project professionals talk about their work, photo equipment and how to operate it. They give master-classes on creation and editing of photo sessions and share the experience.
We are participating in the International Investment Forum Sochi-2015. We are demonstrating unique aerial panoramas on the stand of Sakhalin Region.
The Eastern Economic Forum took place in Vladivostok on 3-5 September. The AirPano Team presented 3 stands with panoramas of Eastern Russia. We were demonstrating our content in a new way: the monitors were surrounding the viewer, so there was a complete illusion of personal presence on the spot.
One of our stands was a combined with eight LG TV-screens instalation, where we were showing panoramas of Sakhalin. For demonstrating Kamchatka panoramas we used a touch panel and combined 3 huge projector screens. Even Hollywood star Steven Seagal was impressed with our works!
The opening of the AirPano Exhibition in a Moscow school #1953 took place yesterday, on 12th February. Sergey Semenov, the director of the project, spoke about panoramic photos, the process of their creation, the work of the AirPano project and the photography profession with 6th-11th grade students. They showed great interest in Sergey's speech, asked a lot of questions and took part in a small photo session.
Today the results of National Geographic Russia "Wild Nature of Russia — 2014" competition have been announced. AirPano photographers have won in several categories! The photo "Land of Bears" by Stas Sedov took the first place in "Reserved Russia" category. The photo "Beech forest" by Sergey Semenov took the second place in "Landscape" category. Some other photos by Sergey Semenov, Stas Sedov and Sergey Rumyantsev are being shown at the "Wild Nature of Russia — 2014" exhibition.
We have released new iPad application AirPano Travel Book in June 2014. It was a pleasant surprise, that application has got into the list of best new apps in AppStore immediately after the release. Moreover, Apple placed banners of our iPad application in AppStore in 118 countries of the world. Apple also posted about AirPano Travel Book in Twitter.
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.
Photographers of AirPano project teach to make a beautiful photo, shoot panoramas, landscapes, city scenes and portraits. There are also video tutorials about usage tripod, photo filters, flash, about necessary photo accessories and about shooting in difficult weather conditions. Sergey Semenov, Sergey Rumyantsev and Dmitry Moiseenko give useful tips on shooting and demonstrate their use. Video tutorials are available on Russian here.
Recently AirPano begins cooperation with TV channel "My Planet". Worth noting, that "My Planet" is the main Russian educational channel about travel, science and history. Now you can see our virtual tours and read our articles on Russian on their website.
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.
AirPano Project presents to your attention iPad application AirPano Travel Book. It contains the best spherical photo panoramas, created by our team in recent years. You can get more information about AirPano Travel Book here.
There is an application with AirPano panoramas in the Russian Samsung Apps store. Now it is possible to watch our panoramas via Samsung Smart TV. There is a function in the application to use AirPano panoramas as a screensaver for Samsung Smart TV. Application is available in the Russian Samsung Apps store for free.
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 Saturday, 8th February, AirPano team held a master class "Spherical panoramas. Foundation of shooting, stitching and retouching". Dmitry Moiseenko and Ivan Roslyakov told about the basics of shooting spherical panoramas and panoramas preparation for the demonstration. There is a video of this master class in Russian, on YouTube.
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 7th the 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.
In May of this year, during the grant award of Russian Geographical Society, Sergey Semenov had conversation with Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Federation, and asked President’s permission to fly over Kremlin. Airpano team obtained all the necessary permits recently and in the end of May we had our shooting on the territory of Moscow Kremlin and Red Squire. Our helicopter also flew around Kremlin stars, Kuranti on Spasskaya Tower, Ivan the Great Bell Tower and Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed. AirPano.ru will be showing this unique virtual tour in August on our website.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In September edition of the US magazine for pilots - the Plane&Pilot (http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/) - there is a double-page photo made by one of our photographers Sergey Semenov.
Now US readers can also enjoy the unique shot of Kremlin, Red Square and the flying group Golden Eagles made during the parade rehearsal in the honor of 65 years of the Great Victory. Like it usually happens, we appeared in the magazine accidently enough.
In May one of the Plane&Pilot's publishers was in Russia and, walking along Tverskoy Boulevard, saw this photo which was being exposed in the frameworks of the World Seen by the Russians exhibition and Sergey Semenov was its participant.
There was a publication (08.06.2011) in the Metro newspaper about our virtual tour in the sky of St. Petersburg. This shooting became one of the longest and most complicated but simultaneously one of the most popular creative works between our viewers. FYI: the Metro newspaper is the most read daily newspaper in Russia.
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 months and 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.
On the site there is a reportage about hard life of a sandwich inside a Zanussi oven.
The works on virtual helicopter tour over The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad have finished. The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra (The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra according to the church publications) is the largest Russian orthodox monastery. There are eight panoramas available to view in our gallery.
The works on virtual helicopter tour over New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection in Istra have finished. New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection founded by Patriarch Nikon in year 1656 is one of the most complicated and interesting monuments of Russian spiritual culture. There are two panoramas available to view in our gallery.
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.
In 2008 I decided to visit New Zealand for a couple of weeks to be sure that The Lord of the Rings was really shot there :) The way to New Zealand was very long and took more than 24 hours, and I had to change a plane twice: in Dubai and in Sidney.
On my way back I decided to stay for a night in Sidney, because it is one of the most beautiful cities of the planet, and this visit didn’t require getting Australian visa. In the morning before leaving for the airport I found the contacts of a helicopter operator in a phone directory and shot several panoramas in the harbour near the world-known Opera House. It was two years ago but only now we have got time to work with the materials of those photo-session.
That time we still couldn't shoot the high resolution spheres that is why Sidney shooting is represented in its usual quality.
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!
In November we shot on Maldives, Mauritius, in Bangkok, Sidney and on the South-West of the USA. Besides, we mastered an underwater panoramic shooting and its results will be represented on the site very soon.
In the "Digital Photo" magazine №93 (January 2011), in the article about photo-safari titled Those Who Have Traveled Round Earth Three Times the interview and photos by Oleg Gaponyuk were published.
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!
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