Aerial Virtual tour of Central Park, New York
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Photography by Oleg Gaponyuk
Central Park is a massive public, urban park in the guts of NY City and is host to roughly 25 million visitors yearly.
The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux. While a lot of the park looks natural, it is in reality nearly wholly landscaped. It contains many natural-looking lakes and pools, in depth walking tracks, 2 ice-skating rinks ( one being a pool in July and August ), the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, a wildlife refuge, a giant area of natural woods, a reservoir with an encircling running track, and the outside Delacorte Theater which hosts the “Shakespeare in the Park” summer holidays. 85% of the park’s operating budget comes from personal sources via the Central Park Conservancy, which manages the park pursuant to a contract with NY City Office of Parks and Recreation.
Central Park is an enormous public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in the Big Apple Town , nearly four / five of the dimensions of Vancouver’s Stanley Park and just over third of the dimensions of London’s Richmond Park.
With roughly 25 million visitors yearly, Central Park is the most visited town park in the United States, and its appearance in several flicks and television shows has made it famous.
The park is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy, a non-public, not-for-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the NY City Office of Parks and Recreation,[2] in which the president of the Conservancy is ex officio director of Central Park. Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the south by West 59th Street, on the west by Eighth Avenue.
Along the park’s borders however, these are referred to as Central Park North, Central Park South, and Central Park West respectively.
5th Avenue keeps its name along the eastern border of the park. Almost all of the areas straight away diagonally opposite to the park are renowned for inspiring buildings and valuable real estate. The park was designed by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and designer Calvert Vaux, who went on to work on Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. While lots of the park looks natural, it is in truth virtually completely landscaped.
Indoor attractions include Belvedere Castle with its nature center, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, and the historical Carousel. In addition there are countless minor and major grassy areas, some of which are used for informal or team sports, some are put aside as quiet areas, and there are a number of enclosed playgrounds for youngsters. The park has its own wildlife and also serves as an oasis for migrating birds, particularly in the autumn and the spring, making it a serious attraction for bird watchers ; 2 hundred species of birds are continually seen.The 6 miles ( ten km ) of drives in the park are employed by joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters, particularly on weekends, and in the evenings after seven hundred pm, when car traffic is banned. The real-estate cost of Central Park is reckoned to be $528,783,552,000 according to the property-appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
What Music is that in Background?
July 8th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Yea, no offense on the other work, but whats the music? I’m really interested in the music, I love it so much…
July 8th, 2009 at 7:24 am
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July 21st, 2009 at 1:37 am
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July 26th, 2009 at 9:48 am
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August 10th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
god i love new york!!
August 11th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Stunning! Great at full screen on a 30″ monitor. And the music works so well with it. Brilliant work guys.
August 24th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
New York’s my home!
August 26th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I LOVE IT!!!!!!
Beautiful!
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September 11th, 2009 at 1:02 am
How beautiful!
Perfect choice of music too.
Thank you for the wonderful interlude.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
now i miss ny and am sad.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
It’s so NYC!
September 28th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
PLEEEZE…who does the beautiful music? Can someone help out here? I have never been to NYC but want to go now .
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 am
yeah what he said
November 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
How do you make aerial virtual tours??
…helicopter? …technology?
I was making some virtual tours with my Pentax fisheye lens and Manfrotto 360 vr head…but the equipment has to be very still and precisely set up…how can you achieve that in the air?
December 11th, 2009 at 4:48 am
to Neven.
It was made from helicopter.
You are right, precisely set up cannot be achieved in the air. Helicopter is moving around 10-50 meters in air.
But distance from heli to earth is long and it reduce parallax and requirement for accuracy. Anyway, it needs lot of photoshop retouch when stiching these panoramas.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:25 am
+1 for the track id please. thank you