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Marketplace - A World Wide Panorama

On the equinox weekend, March 17-20, over 250 photographers, mostly strangers to each other, collaborated on an international photography project. Working in 44 countries around the world they each photographed and prepared a VR panorama on the theme of "marketplace". The results show amazing imagination and variety.

If you have never experienced a VR panorama this is an excellent way to find out what it is all about. These computer images spin around 360°, sometimes also straight up and down, allowing you to look in any direction. It is as if you are "virtually" there.

The web site produced by this effort is available at WorldWidePanorama.com. You may need to download and install QuickTime software (free, from Apple Computer) if you do not already have it.

The World Wide Panorama series of events, sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley, is now starting a second year of quarterly events. This time it was held the weekend of the equinox, March 20, first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Participating photographers were free to choose any interpretation of the theme "marketplace" that appealed to them, from actual local farmer's markets to abstract concepts of marketplaces of ideas.