!!!Hawaii, Oahu Island Virtual Tour
by members of the [AirPano Team|Geography/About/Consortium/AirPano,_Team] that is a member of the [global-geography Consortium|Geography/About/Consortium]. \\
Panoramas by Dean Karamehmedovich, programming by AirPano
2 December 2011
with kind permission of [AirPano|http://www.AirPano.com]
There are 50 states in the USA. The newest state is Hawaii: these are
remarkable islands located in the central part of Pacific Ocean, far
away from the continent.
The Hawaiian archipelago consists of twenty four islands and atolls, as
well as numerous small islands. These islands became inhabitant in VI
century B.C., but for many centuries during the legendary
round-the-world travel of the era of Great geographical discoveries,
sailors passed either to the south or to the north of the islands.
Therefore Hawaiian Islands didn't appear on the map for a long time and
no one knew about them.
It is considered, that the first European who set foot on their land,
was the famous sailor James Cook in 1778. He died a year later in the
same place.
The main places of interest on Hawaii are beaches and the amazing
nature: volcanoes, waterfalls and national parks. Besides, you can find
a rich and extremely beautiful underwater world here. In general, Hawaii
isn't called «paradise islands» in vain — it seems that both weather,
and the magnificent nature and the beaches of Hawaii are specially
created to awaken people's senses.
At present time the volcanic activity on Hawaiian Islands mainly happen
in Kilauea: the attached crater located on a slope of Mauna Loa, the
second highest mountain. The ongoing eruption of this volcano has been
continuing since 1983.
This volcanic eruption is famous for its spectacular fountains of the
lava throwing the heated red magma 90 meters up in the air. Such lava
fountain can sometimes reach the height of 500 meters. Leaving the
crater, lava flows downhill like the bright-red river of basalt with the
speed of 30 and more kilometers an hour. It burns absolutely everything
on its way, cuts roads, and having reached the sea, it cools down
quickly, sending huge pillars of vapor to the sky. For the tourists
visiting this tropical paradise these eruptions are an absolutely
unforgettable show.
We have already attempted to photograph the volcano eruption, but it's
been only partially successful. The day when we have arrived there by
the helicopter, lava pipes blocked up, and for the first time in several
years the lava stopped flowing into the ocean. Next day the lava has
made a new path, and by the time we found the place where lava was
flowing into the ocean, a hundred-meter pillar of vapor was already
rising there. By that time our helicopter was gone, and we took pictures
only from the ground.
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This is the reason why our interest in Hawaiian Islands hasn't
diminished for several years.
Last year we met with Dean Karamehmedovich, a wonderful photographer who
lives on the islands. He has been shooting the islands for a long time.
You can find an interesting virtual tour across Hawaii here.
And today we present to your attention his aerial photo tour of the Oahu
Island.
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Because it is a first Dean's tour on our website, we would like to tell
couple of words about Dean.
Like many other graduates, he has changed careers over the years from
Electrical Engineer into Web-Developer, from Restaurant Owner to
Photographer. Become adventure junkie, marathoner, triathlete, coffee
drinker, traveler, new media strategist, self-confessed geek and
motorcyclist he moved to Hawaii in 2000, the land of hula skirts, big
waves and scuba-diving which is another one of his passions. He soon
established VTHawaii.com. He landed his first big project in 2004 for
Hickam Air Force base on Oahu and then became a full time professional
photographer and the leading provider of panoramas in Hawaii.
In the year 2008 VTHawaii was awarded a contract from largest Real
Estate company to photograph 1200 geo coded locations from the main
Hawaiian islands, every community, every beach and every attraction and
my ride begin..
In the year 2009 travel continue extensively to Canada and USA
photographing hundreds of hotels in more that hundred cities beginning
with CA, AZ, NM next to NY, MN, MI, NH, MA, then Canadian provinces like
OT, BC, AB, MB, SK, QC, NB, NS and up to PEI and Newfoundland. He was
also inspired to start doing underwater panoramas and even start his own
marine life tribute website HawaiiMarineLife.com taking underwater
images of endemic Hawaiian marine species.
Recently, AirPano.ru inspired him and after few trial runs from the
airplane and helicopter the first demonstration aerial project was
successful and VT Hawaii.com was airborne.
What's next?... There are many places to go!
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