Direct Link: Golden Mile London Gigapixel Panorama

I’ve just finished working on a new gigapixel panorama called ‘Golden Mile’, which took a couple of evenings of standing around on top of a building. It had been a warm day in London and the heat of the city could still be felt as the sun set – it was great not to be spending hours frozen in high winds for a change!

It’s lovely to get a shot with quite so many of London’s landmarks included, and this has lots – the major ones I’ve listed below, but if you zoom into the gigapixel file then you’ll spot many more.

The major ones then; the River Thames, London Eye (Millennium Wheel), St Paul’s Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the turrets of Lambeth Palace, the Gherkin, Tower 42 (the Natwest Tower), the BT Tower (Telecom Tower), the British Museum, The Sea Life London Aquarium at the old County Hall, Shellmex House, Nelson’s Column, Piccadilly Circus, the new 147m Strata Tower, the nearby Elephant & Castle and Alexandra Palace in the distance in North London.

The image is incredibly high resolution – and will print at photographic quality at over 10 metres without scaling up. In addition, the viewer on the site gives you the ability to explore the image online, zooming in to see the detail. Here are a couple of crops from the image.

I hope you enjoy exploring the skyline. Click the link to view the gigapixel panorama.

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.

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.

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…)

© Will Pearson 2008

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…)

All images © Will Pearson.

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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