A panorama with an aerial view of Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR), Dubai, UAE. Sheikh Zayed Road is a major highway which is flanked by Dubai’s incredible skyscrapers. Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR) is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Zayed Road is part of the E11 – the longest and best-known road in the UAE, linking some of the major cities of the Emirates. In Dubai it features some of the Emirate’s most impressive skyscraper architecture. This panorama shows the skyscrapers of Sheikh Zayed Road from on high in a dust storm.
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Burj Khalifa Dubai
Scrolling around this 360 panorama you’ll see The Park, lovely landscaped gardens in Downtown Dubai. However it’s only when you scroll up that you can really get a perspective on what makes this location different. The Burj Khalifa is the worlds tallest building and here you can gaze up from the foot to the peak towering 828 metres (or just about 12 jumbo jets laid nose to tail) above the ground.
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The Montgomerie Golf Club Dubai
360 Panorama overlooking thec skyscrapers of Dubai from the fairways of The Montgomerie Golf Course in Dubai, UAE.
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Waterloo Bridge London
London panorama captured from Waterloo Bridge over the River Thames looking west along the South Bank towards Festival Pier, Hungerford Bridge, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.
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360 car interior panorama
A high resolution interactive 360 of the interior of the new Mercedes C-Class Estate. The photography had to be a high resolution to showcase the high quality finish of the car including nappa leather and brushed aluminium. The shoot was technically challenging, and after a day in the studio the final image was produced over 6 days and is made up of around 200 separate images.
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Sunlit London Panorama
Panorama looking across Westminster towards the City of London, with the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the BT Tower (Telecom Tower), the London Eye, Lambeth Palace, Shellmex House and over in the City, visible are Tower 42, the Gherkin and St Paul’s Cathedral. Zoom in to view the details and spot Nelson’s Column, the Oxo Tower and other London landmarks.
Fine Art Print
Sunlit London, archival print
Framed
Fine art print, framed
Acrylic
Face-mounted acrylic
Resolution
For hoardings, supersites, wall manifestations and translites, this image scales to building and site-scale sizes. Find out more. Fine art prints up to 320 × 120 cm at native resolution.
Formats
Framed, face-mounted acrylic, or unframed on a paper roll. Hand silver-gilded editions by arrangement.
Captured
15 March 2010.
Every print is made to order and priced by size and finish — how ordering works.
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Doctor Who: Inside the Tardis in 360 Degrees
Today the 360 virtual tour of the Tardis which I shot for the BBC has gone live. The BBC have used the virtual tour to provide lots of exciting content to Doctor Who fans, including a short film giving users a tour of the Tardis, special messages from characters, Tardis facts, wallpaper downloads and conceptual art. The interactive images allow users to navigate around at leisure, feeling as if they’re inside the Tardis and zooming in on details that interest them. Hopefully this gives Doctor Who fans a really good chance to get up close and personal with the Tardis – something that’s not so achievable with a still image or even watching on screen.
As I mentioned on my last blog post, I’m a child of the 70’s and have been a Doctor Who fan since the days of Tom Baker and his (I thought then) very cool scarf. Getting the opportunity to shoot the Tardis was massively exciting, and I hope that the images give other fans a chance to get closer to the world’s most famous time machine.
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Golden Mile
London Skyline Panorama
This London skyline panorama is titled ‘Golden Mile’. Capturing it 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 image then you’ll spot many more.
Major London landmarks include the London Eye (Millennium Wheel), St Paul’s Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the turrets of Lambeth Palace. Further along the skyline, you can pick out the Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe), Tower 42 (the Natwest Tower), the BT Tower (Telecom Tower), the British Museum, The Sea Life London Aquarium at the old County Hall, Shell Mex House, Nelson’s Column, Piccadilly Circus, the 147m Strata Tower, the nearby Elephant & Castle and even Alexandra Palace in the distance in North London.
The panorama was created as a gigapixel cityscape, made up of multiple high-resolution images precisely stitched together. The result is a detailed record of London’s skyline. It’s a view that always rewards close exploration.
Clicking fullscreen allows you to zoom in and pick out individual landmarks across the city, from the South Bank to the far north. To see more examples of London cityscape panoramas, please visit the portfolio.
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.
I hope you enjoy exploring the skyline. Click the link to view the gigapixel panorama.Page last updated: October 2025
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Waterloo Sunset Panorama
Panoramic view looking up the River Thames from Waterloo Bridge along London’s South Bank, past the National Theatre towards Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral to the skyscrapers of the City of London, the Gherkin and Tower 42. Click the full screen button and zoom in to explore the details.
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John Hancock Center, Chicago Skyline
Panoramic photography of the Chicago Skyline looking towards the John Hancock Center by Will Pearson. These panoramas are created at a massive resolution and are ideal for large-scale prints, interior architecture and street furniture.
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East Wacker Drive Chicago Night Cityscape
Chicago cityscape panorama showing the view along the Chicago River with Marina City Towers and the John Hancock Center in view on the skyline. Panoramic photography by Will Pearson.
Fine Art Print
Along The Chicago River, archival print
Framed
Fine art print, framed
Acrylic
Face-mounted acrylic
Resolution
For hoardings, supersites, wall manifestations and translites, this image scales to building and site-scale sizes. Find out more. Fine art prints up to 163 × 90 cm at native resolution.
Formats
Framed, face-mounted acrylic, or unframed on a paper roll. Hand silver-gilded editions by arrangement.
Captured
26 June 2009.
Every print is made to order and priced by size and finish — how ordering works.
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City Rooftops, Chicago
Panoramic view across the rooftops of Chicago. Prominent landmarks include the Sears Tower (now known as Willis Tower), 35 East Wacker (The Jewelers Building) Marina City Towers and down onto the Chicago River flowing out to Lake Michigan.
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Sears Tower Skyline, Chicago
Chicago skyline panorama showing the view along the Chicago River and East Wacker, visible in the cityscape are the Sears Tower and the Marina City Towers with the Jewellers Building in the foreground. Panoramic photography by Will Pearson.
Fine Art Print
Sears Tower Skyline, Chicago, archival print
Framed
Fine art print, framed
Acrylic
Face-mounted acrylic
Resolution
For hoardings, supersites, wall manifestations and translites, this image scales to building and site-scale sizes. Find out more. Fine art prints up to 209 × 85 cm at native resolution.
Formats
Framed, face-mounted acrylic, or unframed on a paper roll. Hand silver-gilded editions by arrangement.
Captured
27 June 2008.
Every print is made to order and priced by size and finish — how ordering works.
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Online Private View: Chicago Cityscapes
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.
Chicago and the Sears Tower.
City Rooftops, Chicago
Along the Chicago River
Chicago Cityscape Sunset
Marina Towers Chicago
East Wacker Drive meets North Michigan Avenue
East Wacker Chicago
BP Bridge Chicago
Chicago Sunlight
Chicago River Bridge
Millennium Park Chicago
Please click the link to see the Chicago gigapixel panoramas and interactive 360s.
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Tripod = Terrorist?
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.
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One of the 10 Best Buildings of the Eighties
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.
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London from the South
London cityscape panorama with views from the south of the city across to the Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf and Greenwich with the O2 Arena (Millennium Dome) visible. The construction of the new Pan Peninsula Towers is almost complete.
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Millennium Park, Chicago
Millennium Park is known to the locals as ‘Downtown Chicago’s front lawn’ and it is part of Grant Park within the Chicago Loop area. Millennium Park Chicago is a major venue for free concerts in the city. This virtual tour shows the view underneath the state of the art sound system attached to the stainless steel trellis. The stage is the Jay Pritzker Pavilion which was designed by architect Frank Gehry. To the left of the stage on the path is Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture (also known as ‘The Bean’).
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BP Bridge, Millennium Park
The BP Bridge (properly known as the BP Pedestrian Bridge) runs from the Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza both within Grant Park, Chicago. The bridge was designed by Frank Gehry (the architect for the Guggenheim Museums) in deconstructivist style. The bridge is 935 feet (285 metres) long and snakes around, forming a sound barrier for traffic noise from Columbus Drive. In addition to the BP Bridge virtual tours, you can click here to view a virtual tour of the Jay Pritzker pavilion, also designed by Frank Gehry.
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East Wacker Drive, Chicago 360
This 360 virtual tour was captured on the impressive Wacker Drive in Chicago, USA. Looking closely at the sides of the river shows you what’s so different about Wacker Drive – it’s double (and at one point even triple) decked. This feature has made Wacker Drive a popular film location for car chases and you may recognise it from the Blues Brothers, Wanted, Batman Begins or the Dark Knight.
The 35 East Wacker building (recognisable from the turrets at each corner with the main central turret rising high above) was part of a swathe of Art Deco buildings that sprang up in Chicago. Known as the Jewelers Building, it was built with its occupants’ security firmly in mind, featuring a car lift rising to the 22nd floor. This ensured that the jewelers could safely drive in with their wares without the risk of parking outside and walking to their building.
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Siemens Panoramas Launch
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.
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Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor, the British born sculptor, won the competition for the sculpture in Millennium Park Chicago, on the AT&T Plaza, beating other luminaries of the art world such as Jeff Koons. His work, titled ‘Cloud Gate’ is affectionately known to native Chicagoans as ‘the Bean’. Cloud Gate’s scale is impressive – 20 metres long by 10 metres tall and weighing in at 110 tonnes (roughly the weight of 56 US cars, or roundabout 500 cows). The privately funded sculpture was originally planned to cost $6m and eventually came in at nearly four times this amount, making it the most expensive public art commission in the world.
The Cloud Gate virtual tour allows you to explore the Anish Kapoor sculpture up close and see the fascinating reflections and distortions created by the polished steel surface, inspired by a droplet of mercury.
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The Rain Project
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.
I’ve loved seeing how people react to the occasional almost ‘tropical’ rainfall, the makeshift shelters, the lost umbrellas and the joy some people find in just confronting it.
You can click the link to view more of the Rain Project. I’m moving studios shortly so this particular project is now complete.
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Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi
A 360 virtual tour of the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi. Rumoured to have cost around £2 billion to build, it is the world’s most expensive hotel.
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi
About the Grand Mosque
Sheikh Zayed Mosque Virtual Tour – the full name of the mosque is Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, but it is also known to the locals as the Grand Mosque. The mosque was conceived by the late Sheikh Zayed, the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE from 1971-2004, and also serves as his burial place. It is the UAEs biggest mosque, and one of the largest mosques worldwide.
The mosque is incredible in scale and execution – it can accommodate 40,000 worshippers. Each of its four corner minarets are taller than St Paul’s Cathedral. It features 57 white marble domes and a 17,000 metre square courtyard. The natural materials used in its construction include white marble, gold, semi-precious stones and crystals. The world’s largest carpet was created for the interior of the mosque – it measures 5,627 square metres and weighs 47 tonnes. The carpet was hand-made by 1,200 weavers who used 2,268,000 knots in its creation. Sheikh Zayed Mosque also features the world’s largest chandelier – one of seven copper and gold-plated chandeliers from Germany. The largest chandelier is 10 metres across and 15 metres high.
The Sheikh Zayed Mosque Virtual Tour
I was fortunate to receive permission to capture these 360 images of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque on a stunning day in Abu Dhabi. The experience of being there was truly breathtaking, and I’m delighted to be able to share it through the immersive 360s. The sheer scale and architectural beauty of the Mosque are simply awe-inspiring.
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New Royal Palace Virtual Tours
Meeting the Queen and Tim Berners Lee – Image © Press Association The new virtual tours of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle were launched yesterday, 12 February 2009. The high-definition panoramic tours are part of the revamped Royal website, which was redesigned by Bang Communications, with virtual tours photographed and implemented by yours truly.
I’m delighted that the virtual tours have drawn lots of attention, and have allowed people the world over to get an insight into two of the most famous Royal residences.
Emily Bell, writing in The Guardian on 12 February ‘there is a wonderful high-definition panoramic gallery of bits of the royal residences…’
An article in Time Magazine says, ‘And if you’re looking for decorating tips for a larger than average residence, you can take an interactive tour of several ceremonial rooms to see what might be whipped up with a lot of gilt, royal portraits and semi-naked statues.’
Yesterday afternoon, I attended the launch at Buckingham Palace, along with 250 other guests, including Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web.
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The City of London Illumes
Panorama of London as the City of London skyline starts to light up at dusk.
Please click the fullscreen button and then use the ‘+’ button to zoom into the panorama and see it bigger. This panorama is available at a very high resolution (much higher than is shown here), making it ideal for large-scale use such as 96 sheets, special builds, street furniture and building wraps, or in interior design, as one-off wallpapers, prints or posters. To see a larger selection of high-definition panoramic images including London panoramics, please contact me.
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Centre Point, London
Centre Point was for many people a symbol of everything that was wrong with British architecture and property development. Its design was considered ugly, and it lay empty for more than 15 years as that was considered more profitable than leasing the space. Now however, Centre Point is a grade II listed building. This virtual tour looks over the fountains and down onto Tottenham Court Road, Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street.
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Chicago from Lake Michigan
Chicago panorama looking across the Lake Michigan waterfront towards Chicago, encompassing the John G. Shedd Aquarium, the Sears Tower, John Hancock Centre and many more of Chicago’s most prominent landmark buildings.
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London Eye Panorama
This black and white London Eye panorama (originally known as the Millennium Wheel) captures the South Bank and the River Thames in exceptional detail. Shot as a gigapixel cityscape, the image shows the stretch of central London from the Royal Festival Hall on the left to St Thomas’s Hospital on the right. At the centre sits the London Eye, framed by the Hungerford and Golden Jubilee Bridges on the east and Westminster Bridge to the west.
Across the river, St Paul’s Cathedral rises above the skyline, while Shell Mex House, County Hall and the London Aquarium stand prominently along the Embankment. Every architectural detail is rendered in sharp focus, giving the sense of standing above the Thames, looking across one of London’s most recognisable views.
The image was created at extremely high resolution, making it suitable for large-format out-of-home (OOH) use including supersites, mega-boards, building wraps and other bespoke installations. Its scale and clarity also make it ideal for interior applications, such as feature walls, one-off wallpapers, or large photographic prints for offices and public spaces.
This London Eye panorama forms part of a wider collection of London cityscapes available in ultra-high resolution. Each piece is captured and stitched using multiple images to achieve the highest possible fidelity, allowing them to reproduce at virtually any size.
To discuss licensing, commissioning, or to view additional examples, please get in touch.
Page last updated: October 2025