As some of you already might have seen on the different panoramic mailing lists, we were informed this morning that our member and friend Milko Amorth passed away.
Milko was one of the pioneers of VR - back in the beginning when all started. He was also a member of IVRPA as well, we met back at Photokina 2004 and at our IVRPA conference 2007 in Berkeley.

We will miss him.

Matthias Taugwalder
President of IVRPA

The IVRPA Annual Panoramic Photography Contest – 2010

The International VR Photography Association (IVRPA) is pleased to announce
a photographic competition and exhibit in conjunction with Photokina 2010.
The contest will recognize and exhibit outstanding examples of the art and
science of panoramic photography.

Photokina is the largest photography-related conference and exhibition in the
world, held in Cologne, Germany, September 21st to 26th. The IVRPA has been honored
with the grant of a free booth at this year’s fair to showcase VR panoramic
photography.

Dear Members,

I am pleased to announce that once again we have been granted a free display space at Photokina, the world’s largest fair for photography and imaging. This is an opportunity for us to educate the public about VR photography and to promote our work. It is also an ideal time for European members of the panoramic photography community to meet each other and catch up on progress in our field.

Thanks to everyone who submitted panoramic images for the exhibition. Everybody loved it and this was one of the highlights of the conference.

The new Official IVRPA Mailing List is hosted at Google Groups, sign up now at:

http://groups.google.com/group/ivrpa

This new mailing list is open to everyone interested in VR Photography.

Additionally to the mail list, check the IVRPA pages on Social Networks:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ivrpa

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ivrpa

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1906190

Dear members

Our broadcast of our members meeting will be starting in about 10 minutes.

For the audio and video broadcast please go to http://tucson2010.ivrpa.org/live

On behalf of the IVRPA board of directors,

Matthias Taugwalder
IVRPA president

Tucson 2010 - The International Panoramic Photography conference just started.

I will try to keep you all updated as much as possible trough the following networks:

The IVRPA account on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ivrpa

And the IVRPA page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ivrpa

I will do my best to keep you all updated.

The Tucson 2010 Panoramic Photography Exhibition image submission period is over.

We would like to send a big thank you to each and everyone of you who submitted images for this event.
It turns out that we received more images than we can display, the response has been fantastic and we hope to be able to put up a great show.

In the next couple of days we will be selecting and organizing the material we have.
We will contact the photographers directly in case we need something specific from each participant.

See you in Tucson from April 14-18

Tomorrow is the image submission deadline for the Tucson 2010 Panoramic Photography Exhibition.

To accommodate for different timezones around the world all submissions received until 2pm UTC next Monday March 29 will be considered.
After that we will begin sorting and organizing the exhibition and the deadline can't be extended beyond that point in time.

Some photographers asked if they could submit digital files instead of prints and the answer is YES, we made arrangements to print those files and ship them to Tucson in time for the exhibition.

Earlier this month we described the first day lineup of speakers at the International Panoramic Photography Conference, to be held April 14-18 in Tucson, Arizona. (http://tucson2010.com/news/2010/3/3/headliners-at-tucson-2010.html) They were Jook Leung, Greg Downing, Eric Hanson, Jeffrey Martin, Doug Segal, Scott Highton, and Jeff Mitchum.

Now the rest of the program is almost complete, and we can tell you about another terrific series of talks and workshops.