As a kid I was a constant customer for photo studios. I guess this was actually not the beginning of the passion, but its continuation, as the first contact with photography was much earlier. My mother, teacher in a school, organized the photography circle and had a laboratory fitted with everything it needed: a red light hanging from the ceiling, two basins for the liquids needed to develop the negatives, a wire to dry the developed films and a device to “transfer” the image from the developed film to paper. Even if, of course, this was an improvisation compared to real photo studios, for a 2 year-old it was simply amazing.

In the year 2000, as a teenager, I spent all my savings for a revolutionary device: A digital camera. A Kodak DC3400 which was as expensive as a mid-level DSLR nowadays, although with only 2MP and 2x zoom. But it was the daybreak of a new era in technology.

I changed a couple of digital cameras but never made a higher performance than occasional hobby photography. Until the day when, 24 years old and traveling through a huge country, I decided to stop smoking and replace the smoking breaks while traveling by car, with something more productive. This is how I bought the first DSLR and wide-angle lens and began to flirt with stitching and creating 360degree photos. Soon I switched my Olympus E520 DSLR with a Nikon 5100 and then a Canon 5D Mark II, the industry standard at that moment.

In the meantime, I was one of the first panoramic photographers who delivered for 360cities.net (click here for the 360cities profile with 750+ panoramas) and Google Earth, and later for Getty Images. Today, after 9 years of collaborations with these top companies, I count more than 750 360degree panoramas and virtual tours delivered, with more than 1 million views only on 360cities.net being a Maestro/Expert member. Some of the companies who licensed panoramas delivered by me are Associated Newspapers Ltd, Oculus VR LLC, France Travel Magazine and other.