What I can't figure out is, look down on the Arches shot, I mean all the way down, and there's no tripod or other stuff holding the camera. Howdafock they do that????
describes the "spherical panorama" process. Basically it's several images taken with a 180-degree field-of-view fisheye lens, stitched together. If your lens covers 180 degrees and you hold it at your eye, you won't see your feet.
As always, the magic isn't in the process or in the camera, it's up to the photographer to make something great with it!
