wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: Looking through everyones submissions,
k_nips 2006-Jul-04 21:52:00
And as one of the first timers, I'd just like to say hello and how
nice it is to have participated this time. What a great way to see a
snapshot of the planet.
To have my first submission published has made me very proud!
('Specially given my lack of high powered gear.)
As my brief bio says, I used to be a working photographer but a career
change in 1987 has seen me working in the media since then. A few
months ago I discovered the WWP site via Google Earth. Since then,
with some advice and help from Kathy Wheeler - who lives just down the
road - I've become infatuated with the whole box and dice of VR
photography.
For the past few months I've been trying to decide what digital SLR to
buy to replace my ancient Minolta XD7 and my even older Olympus OM2.
A new digital Nikon D70 or perhaps the Canon 350D? Now I'm hanging for
a look at the new Sony A100!
Anyhow, it's been great to participate and be in such illustrious
company. Looking forward to the next event...
Steven Spink
Wagga Wagga, Australia
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--- In #removed#, Markus Altendorff <yahoo.mail@...> wrote:
>
>
> The whole WWP website currently weighs in at 5.7 gigabytes
> of data. 5.2 of these are participant's movies ("including
> less than 1% of natural and nature-identical thumbnails" ;)
> ), the rest of 500 MB are the web pages and the map images.
>
> Gardens is the second largest so far :)
>
> Another quote from the admin area: "Currently, there are 708
> registered participants (of these, 692 have actually made at
> least one submission), with 2318 panoramas in a total of 10
> events in the database."
>
> Some of the numbers don't add up yet, since a few first-time
> contributors need the late-editing chance to add their
> panorama and are not yet online.
>
> -Markus
>