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Thanks
to the following individuals who have graciously submitted their photos
or gave special permission for me to use them. I've probably missed
a few folks, I apologize! The star (*) denotes a person who has gone
above and beyond the call of duty in aiding me by sending dozens of
photos from numerous places:
Wouter Adamse - (*) Augusto Cesar Baptista
Areal - Matt Branham - Sumon Chakrabarti - Vincent Chan - Bernard Cloutier
- Devin Cohen - João da Costa (*) Sourav Dasgupta - Michael Davis
- (*) Marco Deluca - Jean-Michel Delebecque - (*) Chris DeWolf - John
Dickins - Mauricio Duque Boris Eryomin - Felipe Fernandez - Eric Floyd
Jonathan Fobear - Alejandro Vasquez Gaete - Louis Georgakakis - Jim
Goddard - Arjan van Grol Ken Grunstra - Thomas Hawk - Arthur van den
Heuval - Marcus Hoy - Masaya Inaba -Damijan Jeric - (*) Teoh Ren Jie
- William Johnson - Riste Kalinov - Andy Kay - Bill Kammermeier - Pauli
Kruhse - (*) Christian Lantadilla - (*) Dylan LeBlanc - Keith Lawrence
- Chris Losinger Dan MacQueen - Leonard Mamchenkov - Max at nevadamax.com
- Bob Nagel - Tiago Pedro - Ronald Pineda - Dale Ray - R. Ros - (*)
Lee Rothman - Bob Sacha - Elberth Santos - Wolfgang Schunn - Jeff Schwartzmann
- Gilberto Simon - Denis Solovyov - Lee Sojot - Jesus Antonio Soto -
(*) Chris Szabla - Rob Verhulst - Fernando Villanueva - (*) Renaldo
Vives - Waxweazle
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Update
Claire Bourdois - Koen Butink - Sumon Chakrabarti - Heidi Farrow - Farukkap
- (*) Warren Loveridge - Dave Lovering - David Nording - Andy Oakes
- Jeroen Pater - Caecilia Piere - Denis Rodrigues - Massimo Schiavetta
- Ross Tabak - Josh Wiltshire - Ken Stewart - Santiago Tamayo - Yulia
Weit(?)
7.50
Update
Raymond Blom - Cameron Owens - Roland from Chelm, Poland - Bunny Saranita
& David Umstead
Thanks
also to the following individuals who pointed out excellent links I
have missed, pointed out errors and bugs, or politely asked
me to remove photos they didn't want on the site:
Carol
Brown
Rand Carter
Ced Chen
Stephen Dudley
Jonathan Enns
Chuck Fulton
Victor Hernandez
Greg Hildner
Keith Kings
Jeff in Las Vegas
Joeymeg
Raphael Lima
Herly Lopes
Michal Matyjewicz
Miek Moncrieff
Kostas Patouras
Douglas Pulsipher
Sam Sautter
Mark Schnitzius
Jose Sousa
Chris Stephenson
Mohamed Suldan
Ron Weatherred
Cameron Webster
Sterling Wilkins
I'm
honored to have won the 2000 and 2001 Best Skyline Site award from voters
at Ryan Ramsey's The
Scrapers, a part of Richmond City Watch.
WHAT'S CHANGED?
7.50 - October 26, 2006
Major upload of nearly 1400 images covering the world. 190+ Russia alone.
7.08 - Dec. 1, 2005
Uploaded 180 new photos of dozens of Japanese cities collected from
Webshots and other sites, see the updated Weburls.txt
file for more Japan photos
7.07
Uploaded 25 recently e-mailed photos, including some beautiful new panoramas
from New Zealand
7.05
Small changes to file locations and Honduras typo corrected. East Timor
now has Dili in it. The Kenya photos hiding in Kazakhstan have been
moved.
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