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).

Earlier this year, I travelled to Louisville, Kentucky and had the opportunity to spend a little time wandering around the city. Louisville is famed as the home of the Kentucky Derby, but sadly as my visit didn’t coincide with the racing, I was left to find other locations of interest in the city. Being fascinated by architecture, my attention was caught by the massive Humana Building skyscraper. This building was designed by architect and designer Michael Graves, and was named as one of “the 10 best buildings of the decade” in the 1980s by Time Magazine.

The style is postmodern – characterised by the blending of pre-modern features (such as columns and ornamental detailing) with modern materials and techniques. This was a reaction against the stark functionalism of the modernist buildings of earlier years. I think that there’s a definite nod to ancient Egypt in the pink granite columns.

Click the link to view the Humana Building virtual tour

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.

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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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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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.

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