What a difference a day makes. I live in the northwest corner of Connecticut. It is a beautiful place and I enjoy living and photographing the natural beauty of the area. Last year I took several panoramic photographs of the largest tree in Connecticut, the Pinchot Sycamore tree. The panorama was part of a virtual tour I did of the town of Simsbury. The Pinchot Sycamore tree is named after a former Simsbury Connecticut resident, Gifford Pinchot. Mr. Pinchot was the first chief of the U.S. Forest service, advisor to Theodore Roosevelt and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania. The Pinchot Sycamore tree measures over 26 feet in diameter and is believed to be possibly as old as 300 years.

The fascinating results of panoramic VR images are not exactly easy to achieve in a controlled environment. Even less so when you happen to shoot in difficult or remote locations where you have absolutely no control of what happens around you and often not much time to properly set up your equipment.

I have been taking panorama photographs for several years now. I started with just a regular camera and tripod and found it very difficult and time consuming to stitch the photos together into a 360 spherical panorama. Most panos I took would need 40-50 photos to ensure I captured the complete 360 sphere.