I’ve added a new London panorama to the Gigapixel Panoramas Portfolio section. I’ve (slightly inaccurately) titled it Waterloo Sunset, with a nod to the Kinks and Ray Davies, though clearly it’s shot a little after sunset! If I add another – more accurate – Waterloo sunset, then I shall have to rename this one. The cranes on the skyline show just how much building is going on in the capital.

Visit the link to view the Waterloo Sunset gigapixel panorama in a zoomable format. To see it big, make sure you click the fullscreen button, and click into it to zoom in – it’ll take a moment after each click to load up.

The images from Chicago are now available to view in the cityscapes stock library. Please click the link to be taken to the Chicago stock photography library (opens in a new window).

If you were looking at the last entry on the blog and decided to go and visit the Barclays.com homepage to view the panorama in the last couple of days – you might have been a little confused to see a different shot! The panorama has now changed to a different gigapixel panorama which I shot for Barclays. You can see a close-up of this shot here:

Cohen and Steers is a a London-based investment firm. They commissioned a number of large panoramic prints to decorate their offices, and you can see how this looks in situ here in this virtual tour. If you click on the hotspots within the tour, you can see close-ups of the panoramas. (more…)

We have just launched an area of the site called (unsurprisingly!) ‘Stock Images’ which is intended to be an archive of my panoramic photography, split by category, making it easy for clients to look through and select an appropriate panoramic stock shot. There are currently four categories – cityscapes, landscapes, alternate perspective and London.

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One of my panoramas has recently been reproduced at a massive scale – 32 metres (105 feet) for Cable & Wireless. The image is displayed at a new Cable & Wireless headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, which has been beautifully designed by an interior architects firm.

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A short while ago I was in LA, shooting fashion panoramas for alternative designers Mother of London.

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I thought I’d add in one of my latest shots – it’s a panoramic view over London with the Old Royal Naval College in the foreground. Alongside the more obvious landmarks like the O2 Arena, Canary Wharf, The Gherkin and Tower 42 are the landmarks that you don’t see straight away, like Tower Bridge or St Paul’s Cathedral. And check out the number of cranes to see how fast the London skyline is changing.

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All images © Will Pearson.

Increasingly I am shooting images at an incredibly high resolution and so the file sizes are massive. This means that it’s difficult to display them online in a way which does them justice. I have introduced a new section on the site which aims to show the files bigger than before, so people can zoom in and see the details.

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I’m back from exhibiting at the 9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition in China, and it was a pretty incredible experience. I was able to spend a few days travelling around Shanghai and the outskirts as well as spending time at the exhibition. We had a fairly hectic press conference, at which I discovered that I’m far happier on one side of the lens than the other! So somewhere I’m appearing on Chinese TV – but I’ve no idea where, so if anyone sees me, let me know! I’ve put a couple of Shanghai panoramas live on the Will Pearson site and will add more over the coming weeks and months.

I’ve also recently returned from California, where I was shooting some new Yungfuktoi fetish fashion images at an amazing underground location in Downtown LA. I’ll be adding those in the not too distant future.
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I have been selected to join some of the UK’s leading photographers at the 9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, which is a really exciting opportunity. The Yungfuktoi series will be included in the exhibition, along with another collection of panoramas. I am travelling out to China for the exhibition this Summer, and hope to be able to do a new series in Shanghai while I’m there. I’ll update the blog with images from Shanghai as soon as I can, so watch this space.

The May issue of VR-MAG (the trade magazine for the virtual tour and panoramic industry) features an interview with me about my work and background.

To read the full article, please visit www.vrmag.org/vartist/guest_artist/WILL_PEARSON_S_TRANSFIGURATION_OF_THE_COMMONPLACE.html

To go to the main VR MAG site, cope and paste this URL into your browser: www.vrmag.org

All images © Will Pearson. Panoramas.dk site © Hans Nyberg.

This week, my panoramic photography and virtual tours are featured on the panoramas.dk site as the ‘Panorama of the Week’. This site is run by Hans Nyberg, a long-standing industry expert who features some of the best panoramic photography in the business. I’m thrilled to be included, and consider it a great compliment to have been featured.

All images © Will Pearson.

I spent much of November and early December shooting a commission for Siemens in the UK for their Annual Review of 2007. The shot above is one of the commissioned shots, from the offshore wind farm at Burbo Banks in Liverpool, I also shot plaster and glass factories, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s MRI unit, London Underground, the Welsh Assembly, a water treatment plant, the M25 and Siemens HQ in Surrey! They also chose to use a number of my existing shots. You can download a PDF of the Review here: http://www.siemens.co.uk/en/about_us/index/annualreview.htm

And you can also see some of the other images on my portfolio pages.

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Whilst in California I visited the Burning Man Festival in Nevada – an event which is almost impossible to describe. Black Rock City is an entirely temporary city which springs up for a week for the Burning Man festival, and then vanishes, leaving no trace on the hard dust bed of the desert (the playa). The rule of the festival is that there are no spectators, everyone must participate, whether that’s though incredible constructions, outlandish costumes or performance skills – this creates a unique ‘anything goes’ atmosphere. This effect is increased by the other rule – no money must change hands; everyone tries to help out everyone else. And despite this sounding unworkable, it in fact works beautifully (though there were some tricky moments when my companion was asked to ‘drop’ certain items of clothing as ‘collateral’ to borrow a pen!).

This panorama shows the city seen from the desert side – you can see more panoramas of Burning Man and Black Rock City in my portfolio.

Please click the link to be taken to the Burning Man 360 photography.