I'm Ed Fink, and these are my 360 degree panoramas. I believe I'm the first VR photographer in the world to do high resolution spherical panoramas from a helicopter. 
The 360 degree aerials are such a blast they're my main focus now, although I still shoot lots of ground-level VR, like crowd panoramas, building interior/exteriors, and even cars.
I loved making these panoramas, and I hope you enjoy looking at them.
If you think your business can use an aerial or ground level panorama, email me at or call me at 651-483-1557.
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"the absolute best I have seen anywhere."
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press did a front page story about me.
VRMag has a feature story about my Hurricane Katrina panoramas.
Category: Featured
Check out this assortment of my favorite 360 degree panoramas, both aerial and ground-level, or choose a panorama category.
360 degree aerial panorama of downtown St. Paul over the Xcel Energy Center. Visible landmarks include the Minnesota State Capitol, the Cathedral of St. Paul, and the Mississippi River.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Hummingbird Helicopters
Pilot: John Lindstrom
Categories: Featured, Saint Paul
This is a 360 degree aerial panorama shot from a helicopter over downtown Minneapolis. Landmarks include Target Center and the Metrodome, and the Mississippi River, including the site of the first bridge over the river, St. Anthony Falls, and the Stone Arch Bridge.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Hummingbird Helicopters
Pilot: John Lindstrom
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis
Gov. Tim Pawlenty delivering his 2005 Minnesota State of the State address at the Mayo Clinic Support Center in Rochester, MN.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Featured, Government
I was in Budapest last year to shoot 360 degree panoramas of the main set for the movie
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army".
Now that Hellboy is in the theatres I think I’m finally allowed to say I did the panoramas. I can't show them here, but you can see one of the panoramas on the Hellboy website. It's the room that spins behind the characters on the main page, and the "Golden Army Chamber QTVR" tab on the left.
Anyway – after I finished with the Hellboy set I had a day and half free to run around Budapest shooting panoramas. It was awesome!!
If I’d had a little more time and money I would have chartered a helicopter to do 360 degree aerials, but I had to settle for shooting from a 12’ pole. :) Budapest is so beautiful I really hope to go back one day to shoot aerials.
Oh well - some of the panoramas, like this one from the Citadella on Gellert Hill, practically are aerials!
Equipment: NikonD70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3 on 12' pole, PocketWizard Plus
360 degree aerial panorama directly over Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip.
360 degree aerial panorama over the Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: Davis Aviation
Pilot: Mark Boyer
Categories: Featured, University of Minnesota
360 degree aerial panorama over the Nickelodeon Family Suites in Orlando, Florida. Family friendly hotel with one, two, and three bedroom suites in SpongeBob SquarePants, Jimmy Neutron, Dora, and Fairly Oddparents themes,a million dollar state of the art theater, mall, spa, arcade, café, food court, and breakfast with Cosmo, Wanda, Dora and SpongeBob.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Air Florida Helicopters
Categories: Featured, Nickelodeon Family Suites
360 degree aerial panorama over the collapsed I-35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, MN.
This was shot a month after the collapse.Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, PocketWizard Plus
Helicopter: Davis Aviation
Pilot: Mark Boyer
Categories: 35W Bridge Collapse, Bridges, Featured, Minneapolis
360 degree aerial panorama from 700 ft. above the beach in east Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina. Although the new, larger hotels survived the hurricane, the casino barges were torn free and destroyed everything in their path.
Looking 5 blocks west down the beach you can see one of the smaller casino barges sitting on the lawn of the historic Tivoli Hotel (where I once worked!) The two story motel section in front of the hotel was struck by the barge, completely leveling it and killing 8 people, and a 4 story chunk was knocked out of the front of the hotel.
The song "Killer Katrina" heard in the Biloxi Casino Row aerial is by songwriter Steve Townsend. Steve lives out in the woods and he "don't need no stinkin' computers" :) so you'll have to call him at 228-213-0355 or snail mail him at P.O. Box 302, Long Beach, MS 39560.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: J. W. Fordham - 318-547-4109
Categories: Featured, Hurricane Katrina
360 degree aerial panorama northwest of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center the day before the first launch attempt for STS-116.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Katabi Helicopters
Pilot: Sgt. Mitch Young
Barb and Jason Skubitz tie the knot in a Valentine's Day Underwater Wedding at Underwater Adventures in the Mall of America.
The wedding was broadcast live on the NBC Today Show.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Different, Featured, Mall of America
Aerial panorama shot from a helicopter at sunrise over Deadwood, SD.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Black Hills Aerial Adventures
Categories: Black Hills, Deadwood, Featured, World Wide Panorama
Niagara Falls at sunset, on the American side.
This was Fullscreen Panorama Of The Week at Panoramas.dk
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm
360 degree panorama of the 2005 New Year's Eve fireworks over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Shot from the Stone Arch Bridge, visible landmarks include downtown Minneapolis, St. Anthony Falls, and the northernmost lock and dam on the Mississippi.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis
Sunset at Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior after the Annual Beacon Lighting Ceremony and memorial service for the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Featured, Outstate Minnesota, Split Rock
Aerial panorama of downtown New Orleans and the Superdome from a helicopter 400 ft. above the Pontchartrain Expressway at Baronne St. This was shot almost a month after Hurricane Katrina and three days after Hurricane Rita, which accounts for the eerie look of the almost empty streets and highways. The Greater New Orleans bridge over the Mississippi River is normally the fifth busiest toll bridge in the U.S.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Panther Helicopters
Pilot: Lance Panepinto
Categories: Featured, Hurricane Katrina
360 degree panorama from the Minneapolis Convention Center Plaza. Also has a nice view of downtown Minneapolis at sunset.
Equipment: NikonD70s, Sigma 8mm, Nodal Ninja 3, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis
Old North Bridge in Concord, MA, where the Shot Heard 'Round the World was fired which began the American Revolution.
Equipment: Nikon D70, Sigma 8mm
Categories: Bridges, Featured, Old North Bridge, World Wide Panorama
360 degree panorama on the south rim of the Grand Canyon at sunset.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III, PocketWizard Plus
Categories: Featured, Grand Canyon
Minnehaha Falls turns to ice in winter.
Equipment: NikonD70, Sigma 8mm, Kaidan QuickPan III
Categories: Featured, Minneapolis, Minnehaha Falls
360 degree aerial panorama of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The two buildings combined have over 2 million square feet of exhibition space, making it the third largest convention center in the U.S.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Air Florida Helicopters
360 degree aerial panorama east of the Crazy Horse Memorial, the world’s largest sculpture, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
When completed, the mountain carving of Crazy Horse astride his horse will be 563 feet (172 meters) high and 641 feet (214 meters) long. Crazy Horse's head is 87 feet 6 inches (27 meters) high. The horse's head, currently the focus of work on the mountain, is 219 feet (67 meters) high.
The work was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski at the request of Native Americans. Korczak died in 1982. His wife, Ruth, and their family continue the project working with the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 8mm
Helicopter: Black Hills Aerial Adventures
Categories: Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Featured, Rapid City
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