Hollywood, USA
A famous sign HOLLYWOODLAND with its huge letters appeared in 1923 on the South slope of Mount Lee at a height of 491 meters with an advertising purpose exclusively. It was the way to announce publicly about itself of the Hollywoodland Construction Company. After the renovation letters LAND were removed and well known HOLLYWOOD comes to our days.
Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York, USA
There is a new panorama over the Statue of Liberty added to the virtual tour shot over New York in 2007. Unfortunately, the pilot couldn't go closer though before the start had promised to go 100 meters close to the statue. In this case we would see the tourists walking inside the crown on head of the Liberty.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA
This panorama was shot in May of 2008 from one of the main sightseeing of San Francisco - the Golden Gate Bridge. the Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable bridges in the world. To shoot it we took with us a 4 meter collapsible telescope when we left Moscow for the USA.
Sidney, Australia
In 2008 I decided to visit New Zealand for a couple of weeks to be sure that The Lord of the Rings movie was really shot there :) On my way back a stayed for a night in Sidney and in the morning, before leaving for the airport, I shot these panoramas in the harbour near the Opera House. That time we still couldn't shoot HD spheres, so, they are represented in standart resolution.
Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa
We shot this sphere in Cape Town in the beginning of 2010. It was shot right over the Green Point Football Stadium which was being built that time and it is devoted to the World Cup Football Championship. There are still bulldozers on the project site in the sphere, but now the stadium is completely ready and on June, 11 at 20:30 it will be the match between the football teams of Uruguay and France on it.
New-Jerusalem
New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection founded by Patriarch Nikon in year 1656 is one of the most complicated and interesting monuments of Russian spiritual culture.
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to over 300 monks.
Being a Sandwich
As you see, we shoot not only canyons, cities and waterfalls. When there are no flights it's time to joke. So, we present reportage about what a sandwich can see inside a Zanussi oven. Outside the oven Andrey Zubetz, the panorama's author, is watching the sandwich.
Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe border
The Victoria Falls are one of the most famous waterfall. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest one. This claim is based on a width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (360 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Petronas tower
Petronas Twin Towers are the symbol of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. They are the highest twin towers in the world; their altitude is 452 meters. Picturesque architecture along with really giant dimensions of the towers make these skyscrapers ones of the most impressive buildings on the planet.
Helicopter Journey over Manhattan
400 years ago there was the loudest and the most beneficent real estate transaction in the human history: the Indians sold Manhattan to the Europeans for 24 dollars. Now the island has changed beyond recognition and for this amount of money one can buy except perhaps a ticket to visit the skyscraper of Empire State Building.
Brazil, virtual tour of Rio-de-Janeiro
It's very convenient to fly over Rio by helicopter. Unlike most of other big cities of the world, where there are many restrictions and often special flight permissions are needed, in Rio de Janeiro you can fly almost everywhere and at any flight-level, surely, satisfying safety requirements and common sense.
San Juan and Colorado rivers. Utah, USA
In the fall of 2006 I made the first in my life sphere of this place shot from the helicopter, and then I could join its parts in the computer. It became clear, that it's possible to shoot the spheres not only from the ground with a tripod, as it usually happens according to the classical canons, but also being in the air.
Brazil, virtual tour over the Iguasu falls
On the border of two countries of South America, Brazil and Argentina, there is a complex of the Iguazu Falls which is one of the most spectacular nature miracles. The most detailed definition of the Iguazu Falls was given by Eleanor, the wife of the American President Franklin Roosevelt: "Poor Niagara! This makes Niagara look like a kitchen faucet".
San Juan River, Goose necks, Utah, USA
The Goose Necks are on the San Juan River. The photos of that place can be found in any geology textbook. Speaking scientific language, these intricate curves of the river, which were formed in the beginning of the Miocene (about 25 million years ago), are named the Meanders. And one more cult place is seen on the back side, it is Monument Valley.
Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
The part of Silk Road and the ancient capital of khanate is Bukhara. Bukhara is one of the most picturesque and legendary cities of the world. It had been captured, destroyed many times and restored again. And behind the walls of its numerous harems no laughing south passion was burning...
Virtual tour over the Amsterdam and Holland
Amsterdam is one of the most well-known cities in the world, rich in historical events and intensive culture life. Particular here, for instance, the Hermitage, a famous Russian museum, founded its filial. But in spite of all the cultural and educational efforts, we associate Amsterdam not only with the museums and tulips.
View from my window. Moscow, Russia
This test sphere had been shot nearly a month before I began shooting in New York at the hotel Millennium UN Plaza.
Argentina's Tango. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tango has millions of the fans and very many styles. So, there is Finnish Tango, though it's difficult to imagine how the severe Northern people do this with hot passion. But the most famous tango is the Argentinean one: romantics and sensuality, temptation and inaccessibility are united in it as nowhere else.
Virtual tour of Iceland
Iceland is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful country where sliding from the mountains glaciers neighbor with the blue lagoons filled by the hot thermal waters, and the rumbling waterfalls come down to the fuming black lava fields. Besides, there are no predators and mosquitoes.
Moeraki boulders, New Zealand
These enigmatic huge boulders of the right spherical form with the diameter from one up to two meters are located on the Eastern Coast of New Zealand, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, in the place named Moeraki.
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel New York, USA
View from the window of Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
Lake Mono, California, USA
The Mono is a salty and dead lake: there are no fish and the birds, which build their nest on its banks, methodically annihilate the sole inhabitants of local waters who are tiny crayfish. But the lake doesn't care: it seems that it teases with its many phallic figures which are cheerfully shown from water.