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Who: Engineer and hobby photographer Willy Kaemena, currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.

What: The 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world at 452m (1483 ft) until October 17th, 2003 when the Taipei 101 Financial Center topped out at 508m (1676 ft).

Why: “Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and has a stunning architecture which should call the attention of any VR photographer,” writes Wily Kaemena. See more of his Asia QTVRs.

When: “The pictures were taken during a trip to South East Asia in Nov 2004, where I visited Bangkok/Thailand, Manila Philippines, Melaka and Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and Dubai United Emirates (Stop Over). Main purpose of the trip was picture taking of an industrial plant in Malaysia for a 50 node QTVR tour. Beside that work, I used my time to shoot QTVRs in all cities visited.”

How: “The photos for these QTVRs were taken with my Nikon D70 and Sigma 8mm lens. In order to travel as light as possible I used only a monopod and a lightweight self made bracket for the Nikon D70. I would have preferred to take my Nikkor 8mm with me, but for weight and size considerations I left that lens at home.

All QTVRs are done with only four pictures, shot in RAW mode. Stitching and blending in PTMac/ Enblend on a Macintosh Powerbook 17". Final corrections in Photoshop and conversion with Cubic Converter and uploaded on my homepage on Apple's Dot.Mac server.”