For those of you who might relish a bit of recognition, or even an actual prize...

The Epson International Pano Awards is still open, but there are only two weeks left for regular entries. You can enter until April 15th at the regular rates, or for two weeks after that during late entries at a higher fee.

http://www.thepanoawards.com/EnterAwards/

There is a special category (new this year) for 360/VR type panoramas. Not many people have entered yet in this specialty (versus over a thousand for regular panoramic photographs), so your chance of winning is pretty good.

An IVRPA exhibition project for Palmela 2011 - The International Panoramic Photography Festival

The Idea

The Epson International Pano Awards is now open. In consultation with the IVRPA the awards have been expanded to include a category for 360/VR panoramas.

Entries are now open until 15th April 2011, for all professional and amateur panoramic photographers with a combined prize pool of US$25,000 in cash and prizes!

Here is a Palmela 2011 update wrapping up the current situation on March 1, 2011.

Conference Attendees:

This summer Palmela, Portugal, will become the world capital of panoramic photography. It is going to be amazing!

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday January 26, 2011 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://bit.ly/eKTZuo to get the
corresponding time for your time zone.

On the agenda for this meeting are the following topics:

• Welcome
• Introduction of the IVRPA board of directors and the officers of IVRPA
• What the IVRPA did in 2010
• Continuing projects

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday January 26, 2011 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://bit.ly/eKTZuo to get the
corresponding time for your time zone.

You will receive a reminder with the detailed agenda a few days before the
meeting, including further technical instructions how to join the meeting
online.

We welcome your input, suggestions, and comments and how you feel the

This year 4 seats of the IVRPA board of directors will be up for election.
Starting immediately IVRPA will begin accepting candidate statements from
IVRPA members who wish to serve on the 2011 board.

Check the members-only forum at http://ivrpa.org/forum/members for candidate
statements.

Nominations will be accepted from November 13th, 2010 (Saturday), until
November 30, 2010 (Tuesday) on the IVRPA members forum at

Voting for the Board will commence online December 1st, 2010 (Wednesday) and
end December 19th, 2010 24.00 UTC (Sunday). The candidates who receive the

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday November 10, 2010 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://tinyurl.com/32vjuck to get the
corresponding
time for your time zone.

On the agenda for this meeting are the following topics:

• Introduction of the members of the board of directors and officers
• Tucson 2010 session movies now available online!
• Looking back at Photokina 2010

We have been receiving a steady stream of inquiries about the dates for next year conference to take place in Portugal.
To make it easy for everyone to plan their vacations and trips for next year, we can announce that final dates for the conference will be June 1-5, 2011.

If you plan to attend the conference, you should plan to arrive in Lisbon at least the day before the conference starts, that is May 31, 2011.

We are currently hard at work crunching the conference website that will be available in a matter of days here:

http://www.palmela2011.com/