Photoclub Alpha

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Daniel Oi - who provided our most popular external link in recent weeks with his Glasgow Merchant City surround-vision stitched VR panorama - has created a superb view of the Kibble Palace glasshouse at Glasgow’s Botanical Gardens:

The full virtual reality pan-around (up down and everywhere!) version is at:

http://cnqo.phys.strath.ac.uk/~daniel/Panos/Kibble.html

Another great example of this technique from Daniel, who is preparing an article for Photoworld’s Spring edition covering the techniques used to make these images.

– David