Shown below is the Yulong River in Gulin, China – somewhere I’m particularly keen to visit!

Panoramas.dk have put together a collection of amazing QTVR panoramas of the seven wonders.

Hans Nyberg, A Danish commercial photographer comments, “My intention with this site is to make immersive panoramic images also called VR Photography more known among the general public.

Interactive panoramas is a young media and as such it has for many years been known among enthusiastic photographers and multimedia creators. An interactive VR panorama can not be seen in a book or on a printed image. If you print the panorama it gets a completely different expression.”

If you know of any other amazing travel photography sites like this, please share them with us in the comments.

If you’ve ever had problems scaling or cropping images to multiple format and work spaces, this will amaze you!

“The basic idea is that if you want to stretch out an image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. The same goes for shrinking an image – it will eliminate the less important features of an image and leave the main subject areas intact and in the same relative location as they previously appeared in the image.”

More information about Dr. Ariel Shamir and his research.

I can’t see this anywhere online to buy yet but you can imagine it would make a great plug-in for Adobe Photoshop!

Getty images have just released a new version of their website for users to preview. The new site will launch fully over the next few weeks.

At first glance it looks like they’ve made significant improvements to their search interface. Allowing you to filter searches based on dynamic criteria based upon your search results, a popular technique employed by larger e-commerce sites. Getty hope the new interface will enable you to find images faster, broaden your search criteria for more image results and instantly access similar images that are tagged with related keywords.

I think it’s a step in the right direction from a traditional stock library facing increasing competition from the swarm of royalty free image libraries that are emerging every day.

New York photographer Gerard Maynard captured his neighborhood from a rooftop at 7th Avenue and 110th Street. The resulting 2,045 individual photographs, stitched together, comprise a 13-gigapixel panorama of Harlem’s skyline.

There is an event at The Denver art museum which shows one of the leaders in the Abstract Expressionists and is still considered one of the most important painters of the 20th Century, Most of Still’s work has not been seen by the public also Still’s estate was sealed after his death in 1980 along with 94% of his work. For this information and more please visit the Denver Art Museum website.  The exhibition includes thirteen paintings one of which is a 1940′s self portrait, Also The Clyfford Still Museum grand opening will be some time in 2010.

Yesterday my local river (River Mersey, Northenden Manchester) which I live about 100m from reached the highest level yet after a day’s downpour of rain. The high levels seemed to be attracting the attention of the local police and Environment Agency so I thought I’d get a few shots inbetween showers.

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