About the Photographer
Caroling Geary is a 70+ year-old artist who looks to the web for communication and building worldwide community. On her web site, Wholeo Online at wholeo.net, panoramas are an integral part of her envisioning. Seeing all around is akin to the quest for the whole self and expanding consciousness. Interactive immersive imaging is a largely unexplored medium of online expression.
1n 1997, Caroling went spinning around rooms at leary.com in QTVRs by Janie Fitzgerald, whose site at vrview.com became an inspiration. That led to joining the Apple QuickTime VR list, where Robert Abbett proposed the first world wide panoramic shoot. By coincidence it was on the solstice, December 21, 1997. With point and shoot camera, stitching in Photoshop, and little knowledge of the how-to, Caroling decided to try, because she had a great subject, the Paso de los Suenos or Gateway of Dreams, a sculpture oriented to the light of the seasons in California, USA.
Although she was a beta tester of QTVR in QuickTime 5 when it went cubic, Caroling has not mastered a technique of spherical photography. However, she explores up and down in Photoshop, waiting and longing for a spherical painting program. Panorama Tools and ptviewer, the java applet path to panoramas opened up vistas with the equirectangular source image. It also sensitized Caroling to pressures on the QTVR community by commercial and business interests, calling for activism.
Trained as a fine artist, earning BA and MFA degrees at the University of Minnesota, Caroling had two careers: first as a stained glass artist and lastly as programmer and technical writer for the computer industry. She created her portrait in whirling colors at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) on a purple hi-end graphics system running IRIX, using Showcase software. If you see a swastika motif, see this page for Caroling's idea to reclaim this ancient symbol.
In 2007, QuickTime lost the ability to display Flash tracks, breaking Caroling's entries for wwp606: Garden (audio), wwp306: Borders, and wwp1205: Blessings. In 2009, Flash versions with the original content are displayed on the respective pages of wholeo.net. See links at the bottom of individual pages.
http://www.wholeo.net
Contributions:
|
|
-
wwp1211: Best Of 2011 / Full-Screen
- New Camera Blues
-
Seagrove Beach, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp911: History / Full-Screen
- Late 1960s Scroll Painting
-
New Age, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp611: Family / Full-Screen
- Our Hands
-
New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp311: Limits / Full-Screen
- Color Cube
-
Computer Model
|
|
|
-
wwp2011: International Year of Forests / Full-Screen
- Campground at High Point State Park, NJ
-
New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp2011: International Year of Forests / Full-Screen
- NW FL Emerald Coast Forest Views
-
Florida Panhandle, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp2011: International Year of Forests / Full-Screen
- Biophilia Center Forest Hikes
-
Northwest Florida Panhandle, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp1210: Best Of 2010 / Full-Screen
- 4 Seasons: Sun/Moon Rises/Sets of 2010
-
Deer Lake State Park, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp910: Crossroads / Full-Screen
- Sept. Equinox 2010 - Full Moon, Sunrise, Sunset
-
Deer Lake State Park, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp610: Forgotten Places / Full-Screen
- Forgotten by 2012 — Forward to the Past
-
Seagrove Beach, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp310: Food / Full-Screen
- Sun-kissed Apple
-
Seagrove Beach, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp1209: Best Of 2009 / Full-Screen
- Buddhists in the Woods
-
Seagrove Beach, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp909: Performing Arts / Full-Screen
- Seaside Ampitheatre - Lichen on Stage
-
Seaside, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp609: Time / Full-Screen
- Time Spin: Fast Intermittent Sequence
-
Northeast New Jersey parks, New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp309: Diversity / Full-Screen
- Deer Lichen Diversity
-
NW Florida Panhandle, Emerald Coast, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp1208: Best Of 2008 / Full-Screen
- Working Model of Duo-tet
-
Wholeo.Net Art Studio, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp908: Color / Full-Screen
- Inside the Duo-Tet Color Cube
-
State of mind
|
|
|
-
wwp608: Elevation / Full-Screen
- Raising Vibrations
-
New York, New York, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp308: Beginnings / Full-Screen
- Beginning Buds
-
Seagrove Beach, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp108: Wrinkle Tribute / Full-Screen
- Color Healing with iBar TetraHelix
-
State of Mind
|
|
|
-
wwp907: Sustenance / Full-Screen
- Deer Lichens to Eat, Litter, and Evolve
-
Seagrove Beach, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp607: Community / Full-Screen
- Twins' Communal Play Space
-
Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp307: Atmosphere / Full-Screen
- Deer Moss Lives on Air
-
Seagrove Beach, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp1206: Best of 2006 / Full-Screen
- 2001 Memorial
-
South Mountain Reservation, New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp906: Transportation / Full-Screen
- Rubber Hits the Wood
-
Seagrove Beach, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp606: Gardens / Full-Screen
- Little Green Corner
-
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp306: Borders / Full-Screen
- Between Sundial and the Hedge
-
Seaside, Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp1205: Best of 2005 / Full-Screen
- Sending Blessings from the Beach
-
Deer Lake State Park, Emerald Coast, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp905: Energy / Full-Screen
- Healing Energy - Center of Vision, Hallow Hollow
-
Gulf Coast, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp605: Water / Full-Screen
- Dissolving Earth and Sky
-
Grayton Beach State Park, NW Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp305: Marketplace / Full-Screen
- Marketplace of Ideas
-
Airwaves
|
|
|
-
wwp1204: Sanctuary / Full-Screen
- Seagrove Sanctuary
-
Point Washington State Forest, Northwest Florida, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp904: Bridges / Full-Screen
- Loop 360 Bridge
-
Austin, Texas, USA
|
|
|
-
wwp304: The Original WWP / Full-Screen
- Deer Lake State Park Bridge
-
Deer Lake State Park, Seagrove Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, USA
|
|
Prev
