11am - Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC CANADA - Sunday December 21, 1997
It's a little chilly this morning and I've abandonded my second cup of coffee to take part in this fabulous world event. But the sun is starting to take the chill off, and now it's time to shoot. At least there's no rain this morning, in a year that's about to break the all-time rainfall records for Vancouver.
Not many people around, I assume they're either lounging, or out finishing up their Christmas shopping. (I'll be joining the latter shortly.)
From here you can see some of the Vancouver skyline, the Northshore mountains, Seasons In The Park restaurant and a curious piece of scupture called "Photo Session" by J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
Queen Elizabeth Park, the highest point in the city, a little south and east of downtown, is just one of Vancouver's beautiful parks. It sports attractions such as those already listed and seen in the panorama. Also at the park are an indoor tropical botanical conservatory, an outdoor botanical garden, and a pitch and putt golf course. Close by is Nat Bailey Stadium, a triple A ballpark, home of the Vancouver Canadians.
The following equipment was used: a Canon T-90 camera with a 24mm lens mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with two tilt and swivel heads and a Vetraflip from Stroboframe, a Polaroid SprintScan 35/LE to digitize the film and a Macintosh 8500 to do all the digital work. Photoshop and the QuickTime VR 2.0 Authoring Tools Suite, along with a few developer tools from Apple comprised the software used.
My homepage can be reached at: http://www.zephir.com/, were you'll find more QTVRs and links to other QTVR projects I've been involved in.
