A quick guide to the Wirral by Wirral360.com photographer.....Dave Hughes
The Wirral is a peninsula in North West of England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. It is administered by Wirral Borough Council. If you have ever heard the famous song by Gerry Marsden "Ferry cross the Mersey" then i guess you could say we are cross the Mersey.
At the end of the twelfth century, Birchen Head Priory stood on a lonely headland of birch trees, facing open countryside and surrounded by the Mersey. It was from here, Merseyside's oldest building, that Benedictine monks operated the first Mersey ferry in 1330, having been granted a passage to Liverpool by a charter from Edward III.
The original ferry service, now famous throughout the world, put Wirral on the map as part of the King's highway, yet for centuries the peninsula remained a cluster of small holdings and hamlets. It wasn't until the 1820s that steam-powered boats improved communication and opened up Wirral's Mersey coast for industrialisation.
www.Wirral360.com aims to create many 360º virtual tours of the Wirral to show you the viewer how we live here on the Wirral.
Hello, I'm Thomas Humeau. I'm an amateur panographer; I'm lucky enough to travel a lot for work and vacations and as a result, my panoramas are taken in various locations all around the world.
I used to shoot my panoramas with a Nikon D610 and the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye "shaved" but I now shoot with a Parrot Anafi drone or with an Insta360 One X
I upload all my best panoramas to 360 Cities but you can also view all my panoramas on my own dedicated website: www.photo-culture.com
(thumeau [at] gmail.com)
My name is Thomas Sarmis, i live in Greece (Hellas), currently in Crete, Herakleion. I was born in 1981. I am a programmer, currently employed by a research institute as R & D Engineer in Computer Vision.
I am playing with photography since 2002. I currently own a Sony DSLR a200 and a set of lens, among them the Samyang 8mm/f3.5 manual lens which I use for most of my panoramas.
My panoramas-related website is the360s.gr
You can find my in facebook or in deviantart.
or you can contact me in my email: Thomas.Sarmis[at]gmail.com
I'm a retired software and systems engineer who worked in cancer research, medical imaging and chip design. I got hooked on panoramic photography in 2004, when I converted a document scanner into a rotating digital slit camera. Eventually built 5 of those; but finally realized I could only get the pictures I wanted by using real cameras and stitching software.
I got into developing open source panography software (Hugin, libpano) around 2008. In 2009, I co-rediscovered an 18th century painters' technique for rendering wide views in a natural looking perspective, and have been evangelizing it unde the name "Panini projection" (it has been implemented several times and is also called the "vedutismo" and "recti-perspective" projection). I developed and published several programs that offer new ways to control wide angle photo and video perspective, under the general name, "Panini".
My latest effort is PT3D, a helper program for stitching stereoscopic panoramas with PTGui. I hope eventually to develop a true 3D stitching tool, that can combine hand-held stereo snapshots into seamless spherical panoramas.
Please visit http://tksharpless.net