After several months of working under the condition of secrecy, I can announce to the world a recent project – a collaboration with National Geographic ADVENTURE and Microsoft.
Behold – Photosynth, the newest bit of technology to come from Microsoft Live Labs. This software allows a user to upload a number of photographs from the same location, then view them in a reconstructed 3-dimensional space.
The National Geographic Society has teamed with Microsoft on their worldwide launch of the software. National Geographic magazine sent photographers around the globe to capture the 7 man-made wonders of the world.
For our part, National Geographic ADVENUTURE called on me to choose a landmark of the adventure world and present it in a way that it had never been seen before. This needed to be an area steeped in history and aesthetic, yet small enough that I could easily walk around it to capture the images. So, like I have so many times before, I headed to Yosemite. Located in Camp 4, the birthplace of rock climbing as we know, it sits the Midnight Lightning (V8), the world’s most famous bouldering problem.
Tommy Caldwell, one of the world’s most accomplished rock climbers, played a big part in making this project a reality. He is among a handful of people that have the ability (and patience) to climb Midnight Lightning over and over, just to be sure I was able to capture the action.
The product of this collaboration can be seen on the National Geographic ADVENTURE website. There, you can:
• View a gallery of my still photos from the project
• Watch a behind the scenes video produced by
Dane Henry of Deep Roots Media
• View the Photosynth
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Awesome stuff Corey!
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