Photokina 2006 panorama project success

The Photokina 2006 panorama blog has thusfar gathered 51 fullscreen panoramas of the 7 days of Photokina. We expect the number to grow during the following days as some of us stitch some of the remaining images. The project was highlighted by Rob Galbraith, the lomography blog, macnn.com and macuser.com, as well as a number of camera enthusiast forums. As a result of many sites linking to us, and because of the search engine friendliness of Drupal, as of the time of writing we're on the second page of results Googling for 'Photokina 2006'. Not bad at all.

If you have not yet visited the site, now's as good a time as any:
http://photokina.ivrpa.org

Thanks to all who contributed, and all who are still finalising their panoramas. If you have Photokina panoramas you want to post, and you don't have posting privileges on the photokina site, leave a comment below.

During the event, the photokina.ivrpa.org site held up very well, serving panoramas at the same time as the panoramas were uploaded to the site. With our recent hosting issues I did have my worries about the panorama uploading part.

In some ways, the photokina.ivrpa.org shows what's to come for the main site as well. You might notice how each post has a human-readable url (eg photokina.ivrpa.org/vr/photoshoot_at_leaf instead of photokina.ivrpa.org/node/51). The same is true for user profiles: photokina.ivrpa.org/user/aldo_hoeben. And then there's the beginnings of support for alternative viewers. I am not saying these features will appear on the main site 'overnight', but they're I'm looking into it...