Photographer’s Profile
G. Donald Bain
Don Bain's 360° PanoramasEl Cerrito, California
dbain@virtualguidebooks.com
From 1986 to 2008 Don Bain was the Director of the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley, where he taught computer cartography and similar technical subjects, plus the geography field class. In 1994 he founded The Geo-Images Project, one of the earliest web sites, to present imagery for education in geography and environmental sciences. In July 2008 he opted for early retirement in order to concentrate entirely on geographically oriented digital graphics.
He was an early adopter of QTVR (VR panoramas) and maintains his own website, Don Bain's 360° Panoramas, currently with about 9500 panoramas. His goal is to create a comprehensive collection of landscape panoramas covering western North America.
Don founded the World Wide Panorama with Landis Bennett in January 2004 and the World Wide Panorama Foundation in December 2008.
He has also been Vice President of the International VR Photography Association (IVRPA, formerly IQTVRA). He was one of the organizers and local hosts for the International VR Photography Conference held in Berkeley in 2007, and the primary organizer on behalf of the IVRPA for Tucson 2010 - The International Panoramic Photography Conference. He prepared an exhibit about his travels in Alaska entitled Panorama Borealis and curated the exhibit Masters of Contemporary Panoramic Photography for the International Panoramic Photography Festival in Palmela, Portugal in June 2011.
Don was interviewed by Michelle Bienias for the March 2005 issue of VRMag.
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Contributions
Berkeley Country Club Golf Course
The Berkeley Country Club, El Cerrito, California
March 19, 2024, 4:53 pm PDT
The Giant Whirley Crane
Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park, Richmond, California, USA
23 January, 2013 11 am
The Vast Scale of Death Valley
Aguereberry Point in the Panamint Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
16 March 2013, 1 pm
Camping on the Clifftops
Westport-Union Landing State Park, north of Fort Bragg, California, USA
November 16, 2012 9 am
Four-Wheel Drive is a Necessity!
El Cerrito, California, USA
September 21, 2012 1 pm (truck) and September 4, 2012 6 pm (landscape)
On the Seaview Trail in the Berkeley Hills
Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley, California USA
March 22, 2012 11 am
Drakes Bay Oyster Farm
Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California USA
December 3, 2012 1 pm
Rodin's Thinker
Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, USA
January 13, 2012
Sunset on the Chimney Rock Trail
Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA
February 11, 2011 5:30 pm
The Craneway Pavilion
Historic Ford Assembly Plant, Rosie the Riveter-World War II Homefront National Historic Park, Richmond, California, USA
September 23, 2011, 1 pm PDT
The Sacramento River at its Flood Limit
The Sacramento River from Tower Bridge, Sacramento, California, USA
March 25, 2011 10:30 am PDT
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Joshua Tree Forest
Lee Flat, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
11 March, 2013 1 pm
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
California Fan Palms
Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve, near Indio, California, USA
January 5, 2013 11:30 am
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Doomed Oak Forests
Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, Richmond, California, USA
February 27, 2012 2 pm
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Camping in the Tall Trees
Gigantea Campsite, near the McKinley Grove, Sierra National Forest, California, USA
September 6, 2012 8 am
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Mother of the Forest
North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, near Arnold, California, USA
June 14, 2012 9 am
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Monterey Cypress Grove on the Cliff Edge
Near Pinnacle Point, Point Lobos State Reserve, California, USA
May 21, 2012
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Fall Colors in an Aspen Grove at Lake Tahoe
Taylor Creek, east of Fallen Leaf Lake, Eldorado National Forest, California, USA
October 23, 2011
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
In a Quiet Redwood Grove
Avenue of the Giants between Stafford and Pepperwood, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA
July 15, 2011 1 pm
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Giant Sequoias in Deep Snow
Near the north end of the Congress Trail in Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA
March 21, 2011 11 am
wwp2011 | International Year of Forests
Hawai'ian Tree Fern-Ohia Forest
Near Pu'u Puai on the Chain of Craters Road, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii, USA
March 11, 2011
On the Haul Road North of the Arctic Circle
Near Alaska Pipeline Pump Station Four on the Dalton Highway, North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska, USA
September 3, 2010, 2:00 pm Alaska Time
Salmon Glacier Crossroads
Granduc Mine Road, near Hyder (Alaska) and Stewart, British Columbia, Canada
September 18, 2010, 4:40 pm
Redwood Highway
"The Slab" sidehill viaduct on the old Redwood Highway at Bridge Creek above the South Fork of the Eel River, Mendocino County, California, USA
June 23, 2010, 9:00 am
San Francisco Opera
War Memorial Opera House, Polk Street in the Civic Center, San Francisco, California USA
September 20, 2009, 1:25 pm
A Tiny Fish in the Desert
Crystal Spring, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, USA
March 22, 2009, 4 pm PDT
Dead for a Thousand Years
Bristlecone Pine Grove, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA
October 19, 2008, about 1 pm
Where Color Made History
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Coloma, California, USA
September 19, 2008, 6:05 PM
Oil Among the Vines
Vineyard Avenue in the Edison Oil Field, East of Bakersfield, California, USA
March 21, 2008, about 1 pm PDT.
Autumn in the Redwoods
Montgomery Woods State Reserve, Mendocino County, California, USA
November 13, 2007, about 4 pm PST.
Four Million Tons of Carbon Dioxide
Morro Bay Power Plant, Morro Bay, California, USA
March 23, 2007, 11:50 am PDT
Saturday on the Seawall
Brockton Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 12, 2006 14:56 PDT
Building the Border Fence
Mexico-U.S. Border, east of San Luis Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
March 20, 2006 12:32 pm MST
Water for San Francisco
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
12:40 pm, June 17, 2005
The Morrison Library
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
December 20. 2004 - 9:00 PST
Old Growth Forest in Redwood National Park
On the Boy Scout Tree Trail, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park (Redwood National and State Parks), near Crescent City, California, USA
11 am Pacific Daylight Time, June 20, 2004