I had never heard of the mirrored statue at Chicago’s Millenium Park until today. In the past, Park security did not even allow anyone with a decent camera and tripod to photograph it. But now things have changed.

Tom Lassiter took his professional VR photography equipment to photograph the Bean. You can stand infront of it or underneath it.

I’ve been wanting to revisit the Giza Pyramids and take extensive VR photos of this amazing place. My ambition is to either link it to Google maps or Google Earth so you the viewer to can zoom in into the map and then click on the different points around the Giza Pyramids and see a 360˚ view of the location. Truely as if you were standing there yourself.

So what is stopping me? I need help.

I can handle the VR photography side of it. I have a GPS, so I can pinpoint the exact coordinates of every single VR photo I take. And I live 45 minutes away from the Pyramids. What I need is:

- Link Google Maps to display the locations of the VR photos and link them to the URLs.
- Design a user-friendly and simple interface on a webpage which is not language dependent.

I am looking for one (or more) person who can help with what I have just mentioned. This is not a commercial project. No one is paying me to photograph the Pyramids and I can not afford to pay someone to design and build webpages. My ambition is to share the Pyramids with the World.

People who share my same passion and can help should contact me directly. People who share my same passion but can not help, can write their support to this idea the comments link below.

And for everybody, these are VR photos I took a few years ago of the Pyramids:

- A girl and a boy’s enjoyment with the Pyramids distracted by a camera.
- The Sphinx poses as tourists take hundreds of snap shots.
- On top of one of the smaller pyramids, a view of the Giza Pyramids and Cairo.
- Waleed Nassar’s entry for the 2004 World Wide Panorama .

I just love aerial panoramas! Other than the technical challenges of photographing a complete 360-degree view from a moving plane, aren’t these guys afraid of heights?

Australian VR photographer Peter Murphy took an airship to give us a FANTASTIC view of Sydney harbour.

Eric Rougier loves and lives Paris. He takes you on two breath-taking VR flights: one inside the Eiffel tower and another one over the French capital, Paris.

From the little known Reunion Island on the Indian ocean, VR photographer Romauld Vareuse stands over Cirque de Salazie at 3 km up in the sky to share a piece of heaven.

VR hobbyist Kato Kazuhiro from Japan has lived in and loved Jordan. As a tribute, Kato has created 40 VR images that shows Amman, Petra, Aqaba and other interesting places in this small Kingdom.

My fellow VR photographer Fadi Saikali lives in Lebanon. I got to know him through one of the VR photography online communities and we instantly clicked (no pun intended). We worked together and other VR photographers based in the Middle East to encourage the idea of peace in our unfortunate region. We made a Middle East Peace Edition within the World Wide Panorama. Linking our work together, artists from Israel, UAE, Lebanon and Egypt. It is bizarre now for me to read what I had wrote.

I have contacted Andy Alpern, Yaniv Sirton and Fadi. I haven’t yet received a reply from Fadi. I hope Fadi, his wife, his daughter, family and friends are safe and well. I hope he is not one of the 200+ Lebanese who have lost their lives. I hope that Internet access in Lebanon is down. Or that there is no electricity or maybe they managed to leave Lebanon. One thing for sure is that Lebanon is now in ruins.

Fadi has a website called Virtual Lebanon. It has VR photos and panoramas of Beirut, Byblos, Saida, Fakra, Bekaa Valley and many more places.

Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab league, has publicly said that the Middle East peace process is dead. I agree.

UPDATE - 20th July 2006: I just received an email from him. He is still in Lebanon and he and his family are safe. Thank God.