My mailing address is Tampa Florida. But Tampa Bay is my home. Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Iv'e been here for more than thirty years. The Tampa Bay area is home to the best steakhouse on the planet - Bern's Steakhouse , in Tampa- the best beaches on the planet - Sunset Beach, Pass-a-Grille, Honeymoon Island, in Pinellas County and Winter, the dolphin, at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. I got my formal education here at the University of South Florida and I got a whole lot of informal education here as well. At places like the Porpoise Pub in Seminole, Gasoline Alley in Clearwater and the Sunset Club in Tampa. Life is Good.
I stumbled across spherical panoramas while researching vacation spots on Google Earth. I was captivated instantly and wanted to learn how to make them. I've built a couple of homemade pano heads, and my older panos on here were made with about 60 shots taken with a point and shoot. Since upgrading to a Nikon DX format camera with a fisheye, making panos became a whole lot quicker and easier but no less fun!
Send me an email! sjoegriffin (at) hotmail (dot) com
I enjoy photographing desert junkyards, ghost towns, and industrial ruins. www.joereifer.com
Joe Eakin is the Technical Director of the Ho Tung Visualization Lab at Colgate University. When he isn't designing planetarium shows and hosting conferences, Joe runs outreach programs for school groups, totaling tens of thousands of students over the years.
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