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).

The last few months I have been working on some images I captured in Chicago and I’m now delighted to invite you to the online private view of the Chicago series of images. The collection includes several gigapixel images, which can be reproduced at massive resolution along with a selection of interactive 360 virtual tours around Chicago’s Millennium Park and East Wacker Drive.

You can view the complete collection of Chicago panoramas and 360s here.

There’s also a preview below – many of these shots can be viewed at high resolution at the Chicago photography online private view.

Cityscape shot looking over the Chicago skyline with the John Hancock Center in view.

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I’ve just added a new image to the high resolution Gigapixel panoramic photography gallery.

This panorama is one I captured in Yosemite, California, and I love the detail in the image. This dramatic mountain road is high above a valley, and after the tunnel drops down into Yosemite. When you zoom right in, you can see the small details in the trees and the cliffs. Click the link to view the Yosemite gigapixel panorama.

I’ve just returned from a trip to Chicago, where I was lucky enough to be able to shoot from some incredible locations. I’ll be working on these images (including a series of Chicago skyline panoramas) over the coming weeks but in the meantime, here are a couple of stills to give you a taste of this fast-moving, high-living city on the lake. In a city where space is at a premium, the downtown residents of Marina City live stacked above their cars.

View of the Chicago River.

West Wacker Drive, down at street level. Chicago’s streets doubled as Gotham for the Batman films, and it’s easy to see why.

Image © Will Pearson.

I travelled to Salvation Mountain. Having got lost on the way, I stopped in a back street in Niland and asked a young woman the way. She gave me perfect directions and said ‘Say “Hi” to Leonard for me.’ Everybody knows Leonard Knight.

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Image © Will Pearson 2008

The Salton Sea is an incredible place. An enormous inland sea, created by accident when irrigation went hopelessly wrong. The Americans did their best to make good of the disaster, marketing the Salton Sea as a holiday destination – which worked for a while.

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© Will Pearson 2008

I had time to spend visiting some of Southern California’s glorious beaches (Venice Beach, Santa Monica Beach and Malibu Beach to name a few that I remember!). These virtual tours and panoramas show some of the views on these famous beaches.

Click the link to see the Los Angeles beaches virtual tours.

Another in my series of American panoramas, these virtual tours are from Death Valley National Park in California.

© Will Pearson 2008

The Devil’s Cornfield Virtual Tour
The Devil’s Cornfield in Death Valley at dusk.

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Image © Will Pearson 2008

I have been working on the series of virtual tours and panoramas from my trips to the USA over the last year, and I’ll be adding some to the site over the next few days.

This shot is of a caravan I came across in the desert outside the ghost town of Bodie, California. It has seen some action – it looks like it has been used for shooting practice, and has been set alight at least once too. However, it’s holding out against the assaults for now.

Please click the link to see the abandoned caravan virtual tours.

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

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All images © Will Pearson

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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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.

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.

All images © Will Pearson.

In September, I travelled to California to shoot, and had the opportunity to travel around shooting my own stuff too. This panorama shows the view over Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Please click the link to see the Golden Gate Bridge 360 panorama.

Click here to see more San Francisco photos and virtual tours.