Carel Struycken was kind enough to create a panoramic PictureBubbles° portrait of my wedding two Saturdays ago. Alyssa and I were married at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County next to the dinosaurs. Carel captured the moment beautifully—in 360° Dino Vision! Our LED paper flowers look especially vibrant in HDR.

When our friends Jimmy and Sakura got married here in Los Angeles in 2007, I shot a series of panoramas at their wedding reception to spherically capture the moments for all time. Three years later, and with a little help from Photoshop CS5, I’ve finally finished processing them. Better late than never?

Last night, House Industries held an evening event at the Eames Office to officially unveil their new typeface set, Eames Century Modern. This morning, I had the opportunity to spherically photograph House’s temporary exhibit, preserving it for posterity.

This weekend, I had the opportunity to sleep over at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and I couldn’t resist taking a few PictureBubbles° while I was there. Above is the “Birds of the World” exhibit, and below is the museum’s Fin Whale skeleton, under which we camped out for the night in tents.

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile came to a parking lot near me today, and I was fortunate enough to sneak in a PictureBubble panorama before it headed off to spread joy and hot dogs to other parts of America.

Manzanar Cemetery in California.

Hagen Canyon in Red Rock Canyon State Park, California.

This is a bit of a nitpicky detail, of course. But at PictureBubbles°, our spherical panoramic photography sits entirely on a foundation of parallax elimination. If we were unable to eliminate parallax during camera pans, objects in the PictureBubbles° would appear ghosted or doubled where the photographs’ edges failed to line up perfectly. In order to eliminate that parallax error, we carefully calibrate our panoramic tripod heads in order to rotate the camera about the entrance pupil of the lens. Perhaps we’d get a little deeper into the uncanny valley if more slight imperfections were introduced into first-person games, such as parallax, slight random movements like swaying or wind, and lighting changes due to clouds moving, etc.

Over the past year we had the opportunity to develop such an experience for New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. The school’s home base was recently renovated and received LEED Gold Certification for the environmentally-friendly practices used in the planning and construction of the new floors. After photographing the spaces and stitching everything together, we created a website and tour interface that really ties the room together (quoth Lebowski). A visitor need only click on a “hotspot” to bring up a sticky-note with more information about the feature underneath.

Flash is a technology that can easily be misused or abused, but its richness now permits just about everything to be done through a web browser. Thanks to Flash-based panorama / virtual tour software, we’re able to create completely custom interactive hotspots that make a panorama more than just a picture. With text, images, animation, sound, and video, the possibilities are pretty much limitless. But for the sake of accessibility and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), we also make sure to provide much of the same content in an HTML-based context.