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Spench.com is a gallery of the photographic works of Spench. All images are available for purchase as stock photography, contact Spench for pricing information. Prints are available for select panoramas. Please visit the Spench Store for more details. This site is dedicated to bringing you the beauty of the world without your having to leave your computer. But get out there anyway, life's too short to burn out your eyes staring at a CRT all the time, the sun is much more efficient at that.

Panoramic photography provides a unique perspective of our world, which works our brain a little harder than regular photos. These images can be viewed in Quicktime and Java viewers for a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that allows the viewer a window in time. No seriously, the viewer is transported back to the time and place that the panorama was shot, and through their viewing window they can look up and down and all around in this moment of captured space. Picture this; it's just before dawn, the almost full moon is setting in the west over the fogs coming in from the Atlantic, you and several other people are standing on the ridge of a 300' red sand dune, other dunes are visible in the distance... Now click here, and you'll be there (and then).

Imagine the practical purposes for this technology. No longer do you have to go somewhere to really see what it looks like. No nasty surprises at the hotel, you already saw one of the rooms. Selling time share condos? Put a sample model on the web. Heard the Kirkwood Inn was rustic? If they had a panorama on the resort web site then you could see for sure before stopping in. If you would like to hear the benefits a virtual tour could accomplish for your business, contact info@spench.com.

Panoramas on this web site were shot with a Nikon Coolpix 990 Digital Camera with either the wide angle or fisheye lens attachment and a Kaidan KiWi990 tripod head. Thanks out to Dan Crane, who is telling the truth when he brags that he taught me everything I know about shooting panoramas. Images shown on this site will look better on a Mac. If you are using a PC and the images look too light or washed-out, turn down the brightness on your monitor. It is statistically likely that your PC CRT is set too bright to begin with.

This site born and bred on a Mac

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