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.

Seemingly using a tripod on the land outside the Tower of London could get you shipped inside the Tower – perhaps via Traitor’s Gate. Out shooting one sunny, busy afternoon, I was approached by a gentleman dressed in a Beefeater costume. He told me that the land outside the Tower of London was private and was I taking professional photos? No I replied – just for my own personal use. He said that the tripod wasn’t allowed and walked away before I could continue the discussion. Reassured, being that I was shooting for pleasure rather than profit, I kept shooting. He approached a second time, this time to tell me that he was in fact a police officer (undercover perhaps?!) and that I couldn’t use a tripod due to the terrorist risk. He scarpered before I could reasonably discuss the fact that I was merely taking shots of the same locations that thousands of others had in that day alone. Wearied of the constant harassment photographers face (three ’stops’ that day alone) I decided to move on anyway.

This paranoia about tripods is worrying. No, it’s not a health and safety issue as I’m with it at all times. No, having a tripod doesn’t make me a terrorist. No, it doesn’t mean that I’m planning to print thousands of copies and sell them off the back of a van in Peckham. This theory that a tripod turns an ordinary camera into a powerful money-making terrorist uber-tool should be treated with the derision it deserves.

Architect’s Journal (the Emap publication for British Architects) is running a feature about my London panoramic photography. The article has gone live on their website today. The feature reads:

Some of Will Pearson’s stunning London panoramas

As well as London, Pearson has documented the city of Shanghai and landscapes across America. His architectural work also extends to virtual tours of cities and interiors.

The article features 11 of my London panoramas, including The Birds, shot at Trafalgar Square. Many thanks to Alex and all at Architect’s Journal for the feature.

You can read the article and view the images here: http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/london-cityscapes-by-photographer-will-pearson/5207697.article

The www.siemens.co.uk website now features a large panorama which I shot to show the various landmarks on the London skyline. The panorama works to highlight Siemens’ key London projects, and the scrolling mechanic is a great new way in which to use panoramic photography.

To view the work in situ, please visit www.siemens.co.uk.

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:

If you visit the Barclays.com homepage you’ll see a panoramic cityscape looking north over the Thames. I was commissioned by Barclays’ agency to shoot a London skyline panorama with the Barclays HQ at Canary Wharf. I shot the image from a secret rooftop location in Greenwich to give a unique perspective on this familiar view.

I was commissioned to create a panorama of the renowned North London venue, The Roundhouse in Camden. The venue is a converted railway roundhouse (an engine shed) built in 1846 and now used for theatre, dance and gigs. It was a great space to shoot, and I shall be showcasing some more Roundhouse photography later in the year. For now, you can see the panorama of the front of the Roundhouse on the front cover of the 2009 brochure above. You can also click below to download a PDF of the full brochure.

Link to full PDF Brochure

Between 2001 and 2009, I’ve been based at a studio in Crouch End, North London. Over the last 8 years, I have been capturing the scene outside the door in heavy rain. From the same position, but different days and times of year. (more…)

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I have added a new image to the portfolio – a striking black and white image showing the London Eye (Millennium Wheel) on the South Bank in London. The London Eye is in the centre of the image, but there are other well known London landmarks in view – (more…)

EXO2 – a glossy magazine for fashion and the arts has run a 12 page feature on some of my panoramas. The above image is from the cover of the magazine and shows my Hyde Park image in the background.

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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The Guardian’s Great Modern Buildings series uses one of my virtual tours to showcase ‘The Gherkin’ (the Swiss-Re building at 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London). You can see the article and the virtual tour at www.guardian.co.uk/panoramic/page/0,,2189984,00.html.

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The latest issue (31) features a short article about my virtual tours of Cullen Pet Cemetery on the Scottish coast. You can read the full article at www.vrmag.org/issue31/Cullen_s_Pet_Cemetery.html