Thank you for visiting my website! After a year of development, dozens of prototypes, countless hours of work, and to listening to everyone’s feedback, I’m thrilled to finally offer my photospheres for sale.
Photosphere origin story
When the pandemic hit, my adventure photography took one too. With the time and isolation, I moved on and taught myself electrical engineering, software coding, and 3d modeling. As one does with their first 3d printer, I discovered lithophanes, which is a way of 3d printing photographs so that the images appear when backlit.
At the same time, I was also learning to fly paragliders and was capturing 360-degree footage of my flights. The footage was cool, but the only way to experience an immersive 360 degree photo was in a virtual environment, because you can’t print a spherical image onto a flat surface because of the distortion. Still, I wished there was a way to print a scene in a way that made you feel like you were in it again.
Then one day it suddenly hit me: why try to print a round image on a flat surface? So I began experimenting with printing 360 degree images as lithophane spheres, and the results were amazing! Not only does the image suddenly come to life when it’s backlit, but turning the sphere brings the scene into view as if you were standing there turning your own head!
People went wild when I showed them off, and I knew I had something cool. Since then, I’ve been developing the idea with the user experience in mind. I wanted them to keep delivering value even after the novelty wore off. Leave them plugged in as a bedstand light or illuminate your tent with the 20 hour rechargeable battery.