Heritage – June, 2012 — A World Wide Panorama

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• The usual guidelines on format, dimensions, and files sizes will apply. Refer to the section on Rules.
• Shooting for this event must be done during the time frame of the event, in the time zone where you shoot the panorama, not the time zone where you stitch it (if you're on the road and crossing time zones).
• The preparation server will be open for contributions and editing from the start of the event through a week after shooting ends. You can request your own account/profile page on the server during this period. It will then be closed for final editing.
• The final site will be made public as soon as the administrative check is complete.
• Open to all panoramic photographers. We don't want to exclude anyone who wants to join in, or to miss a potentially great panorama by a new entrant. So, welcome all - spread the word and bring a friend.
• To get started we ask that you join our group and get on the mailing list. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/ and sign up. You don't need to be registered on the Yahoo group to participate in the event, but it is a good way to keep up with what's going on.

More information:

Rules and Restrictions

Dimensions and File Sizes

How to Upload and Edit

VR Photography Resources

Although all submissions that meet the technical and content requirements will most likely be accepted, the organizers reserve the right to refuse any individual submission.

About Themes
We expect our themes to do several things. Some participants view them as a challenge – they go to great lengths to find and execute the most perfect and challenging expression of the theme. That is great, and we have had some amazing examples of this – the epitome of the theme.

Others of us simply need some ideas, a few suggestions to get our creativity engine running. Theme essays such as this suggest a lot of possibilities, plus most people as they read will think of more. Discussion of the theme on the WWP list is encouraged – share your ideas, spur each other on, help each other out. It’s a collaboration, not a competition.

Sometimes that brilliant idea you originally had turned out to be too hard, or impossible, or illegal. Or you didn’t have the time you needed. Or you’re a beginner and need a straightforward subject. The theme gives you a chance to shoot whatever you can, then tie it into the group endeavor with the caption.

About the Theme:

Heritage

by Pat Swovelin

Heritage is a very wide term that gives you lots of ways to interpret it based on your country, culture and life experiences. Heritage is the things passed on from your parents that make you who and what you are today and will be passed on to your children in turn. It's what shaped the basis of your country and your culture. It can be the history of a company, group or organization. It's why things are the way they are because of what has been carried over from one generation to the next. Heritage is the living history that's all around us. It's what we see and do everyday that we don't give a second thought to yet, despite that, will become the heritage of the future that's yet to be.

Heritage, noun:
1. something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion: a heritage of poverty and suffering; a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
2. something reserved for one: the heritage of the righteous.
3. Law.
a. something that has been or may be inherited by legal descent or succession.
b. any property, especially land, that devolves by right of inheritance.

Heritage refers to something inherited from the past. The word has several different senses, including:

• Natural heritage, an inheritance of fauna and flora, geology, landscape and landforms, and other natural resources
• Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage
• Food heritage
• Industrial heritage, monuments from industrial culture
• Tradition, customs and practices inherited from ancestors
• Virtual Heritage, an ICT work dealing with cultural heritage
• Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual; of the physical or non-physical things inherited
• Heredity, biological inheritance of physical characteristics
• Birthright, something inherited due to the place, time, or circumstances of someone's birth
• Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin

This is a great theme and I'm excited to see what everyone has in their past (yes, even skeletons in the closet if you're willing to show them). Show the world what you've got and where you came from. Show us your heritage!

Pat Swovelin, who has contributed to the WWP for years and served as editor and maintainer for the events of the WWP, passed away on May 19th, 2012, the same day he sent this essay for the Heritage event out to the mailing lists. The June 2012 WWP event will be dedicated to him.
-- The WWP team

Organizers

The World Wide Panorama events and web sites have been organized and created by Don Bain and Landis Bennett. They both participated in the early "Wrinkles" and maintain large web sites of their own panoramic images. Both are current or former members of the IVRPA (International VR Photography Association) Board of Directors. Original graphics by Kat Bennett and Markus Altendorff. Maps, database, and programming by Markus Altendorff. Thomas Rauscher, Keeper of the Coordinates. (More information about the organizers.)