The Queen’s Walk is part of the South Bank Centre, a complex of buildings dedicated to the arts located on the South Bank of the River Thames. At the South Bank, there’s the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, The Hayward and the Poetry Library, and is Europe’s largest venue for the arts. Nearby are the National Theatre and the National Film Theatre, the London Eye and the Tate Modern. A vibrant and exciting place to take a stroll, this shows the view from the South Bank on an unusually calm night, looking towards the Greater London Authority building and Tower Bridge.
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32 Metre / 105 foot Panoramic Print
One of my panoramas has recently been reproduced at a massive scale – 32 metres (105 feet) for Cable & Wireless. The image is displayed at a new Cable & Wireless headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, which has been beautifully designed by an interior architects firm.
All images © Will Pearson.Most images when reproduced this large will break up, losing quality. By starting with a massive file size the image was able to be reproduced at 32m with a minimal loss of quality. This is fantastic for interior designers and architects, who can commission images which we can ensure are able to be reproduced at massive sizes, as prints or even as a wallpaper feature.
From the solid wall, the large-scale print then continues across the glass of the meeting room wall:
All images © Will Pearson.
All images © Will Pearson.With the sunlight flooding in through the glass from the meeting room behind the print:
All images © Will Pearson.Please click the link to see a high-res ‘zoomable’ version of the print and use your mouse (or the buttons below the image) to click and zoom in and move the image around.
If you’re interested in large-scale prints, please contact me.
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The Bund, Shanghai, China
Shanghai skyline panorama, showing the Bund (the area on the edge of the Huangpu River) with the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Jin Mao Building. Panoramic stock photos available at super high resolution, please contact me for more examples of details of the resolution available. The quality of these panoramas makes them ideal for large-scale applications such as 96 sheets, supersites, special builds, building wraps, signage, street furniture and interior design prints and wallpapers.
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Blue Hour over the Huangpu River, Shanghai
Panorama looking over the Huangpu River at The Bund in Shanghai, China. The blue hour was given an ethereal haze by the heat and business of the city during the day. Peeking out from behind the Oriental Pearl Tower are The Shanghai World Financial Center and the Jin Mao Tower.
Fine Art Print
Huangpu 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 153 × 64 cm at native resolution.
Formats
Framed, face-mounted acrylic, or unframed on a paper roll. Hand silver-gilded editions by arrangement.
Captured
3 July 2008.
Every print is made to order and priced by size and finish — how ordering works.
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Panoramic Images from Shanghai, China
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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People’s Park, Shanghai
Formerly a racecourse which had been built by the British in the 19th century (before gambling and racing were banned by the communist government in 1949), People’s Park (Renmin Gongyuan in Pinyin Chinese) is now a popular park with jogging or bike-riding locals, and a destination for the family evening stroll.
Tourists flock here to visit the Shanghai Museum (the circular building) of more than 120,000 exhibits of ancient Chinese art including bronzes, calligraphy, jades and sculptures. The Shanghai Museum has previously occupied a number of sites in Shanghai, including the old racecourse club house. The new Shanghai Museum building was completed in 1996, and was inspired by an ancient bronze cooking vessel called a ‘ding’. The architect has created a building with a round top and a square foundation to represent the ancient Chinese philosophy that the earth is square underneath a round sky.
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The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
This panorama shows the views over London from The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The Naval College site was planned out by Sir Christopher Wren for use as a home for retired sailors. Now the Naval College themselves have moved on, the palladian building is used by the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music.
The views over London show many famous landmark buildings on the London skyline – Canary Wharf, ‘The Gherkin’, The Natwest Tower and the O2 Arena are all visible. Click the fullscreen button on the right and then use the ‘+’ key to zoom in and see the detail. Panoramic stock images are available for licencing, please contact us for more details. Please note, the final resolution of the files available are much greater than are shown here on the site, and are suitable for reproduction at massive sizes.
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The Edison Downtown, Los Angeles
The Edison Downtown was L.A.’s first ever power plant, built in 1910 by Thomas Higgins, a copper baron. After spending many years derelict and underwater, it was finally rescued by Andrew Meieran and Marc Smith, who have created an incredible post-industrial venue for Los Angeles bar-goers. The Edison wanted a set of virtual tours which would effectively display the original architectural features, atmospheric decor and lighting to potential customers. We created an interface with a floorplan and soundtrack with which to display the tours, and you can view this complete tour here. To see the individual tours, simply click on the thumbnails below.
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Jin Mao Tower, Grand Hyatt Shanghai
The Grand Hyatt Shanghai occupies the top 36 floors of the Jin Mao Tower, and topping out at 421m (1,380ft) it makes it the highest hotel in the world. These virtual tours allow you to gaze upwards to the top of the Jin Mao Tower as dusk falls.
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Mother of London
Panoramic photographer Will Pearson has created a series of exciting new interactive and still panoramas for fetish fashion brand Mother of London. The images promote Mother of London’s latest collection, and include both still panoramas and interactive virtual tours. These panoramas and fashion virtual tours can also be presented as large-scale panoramic prints. Interactive catwalk in 360 virtual tour format.
The shoot took place at The Edison Downtown in Los Angeles, Califonia. The Edison is an incredible venue ? built in 1910 by Thomas Higgins, a copper baron, it was L.A.’s first ever power plant. After spending many years derelict and under several metres of water, it was finally rescued by Andrew Meieran and Marc Smith, who have created an incredible post-industrial venue for Los Angeles loft-dwelling bar-goers. The original architectural features, atmospheric décor and lighting provide a fantastic backdrop to the panoramas.
Brand: Mother of London
Client: Mildred von Hildegarde
Photographer: Will Pearson
Models: Kumi, Gretchen Lanham, Dylan Monroe, Michael Nemo, Ulorin Vex, Evan Tensing.
Make-up: Daven Mayeda
Hair: Noogie Thai & Jamie Gatlin
Bodypaint: Hans Haveron
Assistant: Allan Amato
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Yosemite National Park
High resolution panorama shot in Yosemite National Park, California, picturing a road tunnel in the mountainside above a deep valley. Panoramic stock photography available.
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Salvation Mountain, Niland, USA
Leonard Knight started to build ‘Salvation Mountain’ in 1984. Constructed entirely from adobe, paint and window putty with oddments of found objects, it rises out of the barren desert landscape as an incredible example of Folk Art. Sleeping in a truck on site, Leonard is constantly adding to the mountain to help spread the message he believes in; ‘God loves everyone’.
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.
He’s been out in the desert here for nearly 25 years, building his mountain as a tribute to god and Jesus. He’s had disasters where the mountain collapsed and he had to start it again from scratch, and once had to battle environmentalists who wanted Salvation Mountain removed due to the ‘toxicity’. Now the Folk Art Society of America has granted the mountain a plaque, designating it as a work ‘worthy of protection’.
Salvation Mountain is constructed entirely from adobe, paint and window putty with oddments of found objects, it rises out of the barren desert landscape as an incredible example of Folk Art. Sleeping in a donated truck on site (also covered in paint and putty), Leonard is constantly adding to the mountain and the museum next to it to help spread the message he believes in; ‘God loves everyone’.
As we wander around, Leonard comes over to chat, enthusiastically explaining what parts of the mountain are ‘That’s a car door that I found out in the desert…. that tree’s all made out of tractor tires… The flowers are made from window putty….’ He also explains why he thinks his message is important, explaining that your faith doesn’t matter, he just wants everyone to know that Jesus loves them. Whether you believe the message is almost immaterial – the mountain stands as a testimony to one man’s faith and determination, and that alone is pretty incredible.
In this series of virtual tours, you can explore the whole of Salvation Mountain. From the ‘peak’, you can look out over Slab City (a RV community which sprang up on the abandoned concrete slabs of a WWII army base) and see the Salton Sea in the distance.
[Sadly Leonard passed away on 10th February 2014. He was an inspiration to many and it’s hoped that Salvation Mountain, his labour of love for almost 30 years, can be preserved for many more to come.]
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Derbyshire Quarry
Creating massive scarring on the landscape, quarries can over time, become places of surreal beauty themselves, reclaimed for plants and wildlife. These panoramas show the early stage of this reclamation of an abandoned quarry in the Peak District in Derbyshire.
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Los Angeles Beaches
Tour Los Angeles’ Pacific coastline virtually with this set of 360 panoramas of some of the beaches around Los Angeles.
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Siemens Commission
All images © Will Pearson.I spent much of November and early December shooting a commission for Siemens in the UK for their Annual Review of 2007. The shot above is one of the commissioned shots, from the offshore wind farm at Burbo Banks in Liverpool, I also shot plaster and glass factories, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s MRI unit, London Underground, the Welsh Assembly, a water treatment plant, the M25 and Siemens HQ in Surrey! They also chose to use a number of my existing shots. You can download a PDF of the Review here: http://www.siemens.co.uk/en/about_us/index/annualreview.htm
And you can also see some of the other images on my portfolio pages.
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The Devil’s Cornfield, Death Valley
Death Valley is a place of extremes. In the USA it holds records for these extremes: the hottest place (134°F / 56.7°C), the lowest place (86m below sea level), the darkest night sky in the USA. Since being designated as a National Monument, Death Valley has grown to 3.4 million acres, and is one of the largest protected desert wilderness areas in America. A hostile landscape, its beauty is unquestionable.
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Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is a dramatic natural feature in Death Valley, California, formed by sediment from an ancient lake, long since dried up. Named after the vice-president of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, it was made famous as the location of the love scene in Antonioni’s 1970 film, Zabriskie Point.
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The Devil’s Golf Course, Death Valley
The Devil’s Golf Course is a huge area of of rock salt left behind when the lake which used to cover the area evaporated about 10,000 years ago. The rock salt has been formed by the elements into jagged peaks. The area was apparently named for a line in a 1930’s National Park Service Death Valley guide book, speculating that “only the devil could play golf” there! To view the virtual tours at full screen size, please click on the thumbnails, or the plugin details next to the thumbnail.
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Wind Farm, Palm Springs
Driving down the Interstate 10 by Palm Springs, you come across the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm – a massive 4,000 windmill wind farm which generates enough energy for the Palm Springs area and the entire Coachella Valley. The area is a fantastic site for a wind farm as the pass between the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains is one of the windiest places in California. The largest of the windmills is 150 feet high with blades which are half the length of a football pitch.
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The Salton Sea, California
An accident in irrigation in 1905 led to the creation of the Salton Sea, a vast inland sea 69 metres below sea level in Southern California. The area became known for watersports, and after the introduction of fish to the sea, for sport fishing. By the 1950’s it was a thriving holiday destination with more than half a million visitors in the season. Stars came up from Palm Springs to play on motorboats; Sonny Bono learned to water-ski here.
By the late sixties the rising salinity (now more than 25% more saline than the Pacific) led to a mass exodus from the area, as the stench of dead fish and rotting algae became too much. Now the area is one of the most vital habitats for migratory birds in the USA, but the buildings lie abandoned.
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Arisaig
One of the most beautiful places on earth, the Scottish Highlands have a magic that is all their own. These panoramas, captured near the small village of Arisaig illustrate the beauty and calm of the area. Sparsely populated, there was once a thriving community here before the people were shipped to Nova Scotia as part of the Highland Clearances.
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Bodie, California
Bodie was a gold rush town in the 1880’s and boomed to a population of 10,000 people, all hoping to make their fortune. Rumoured to have had 65 saloons, the town attracted miners, shopkeepers, newspapermen, prostitutes and gunslingers from all over America – and allegedly there was a man killed every day there.
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San Francisco, California, USA
A collection of virtual tours captured around San Francisco California. Including Union Square and the surrounding area.
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Black Rock City, Nevada
Each year, people from around the world gather to ‘burn the man’ deep in the Nevada Desert. A temporary city – Black Rock City – springs up to house all of these people, who are all exhorted to ‘leave no trace’ on the desert landscape. The Burning Man Festival is loosely, a festival of art, of self-expression, of celebration and the avant-garde. Will Pearson went deep undercover in a pink feather boa to capture panoramic photographs and virtual tours around the festival.
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
At San Francisco Bay’s opening to the Pacific Ocean stands the Golden Gate Bridge. Finished in 1937, the distinctive red-orange colour was chosen to enhance its natural surroundings and to stand out in the fog. This virtual tour shows just how well that colour shows up against the fog rolling in.
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More London
‘More London’ is an exciting new development on the Thames on the South Bank opposite the Tower of London. The buildings were designed by the world-renowned Foster + Partners architects. Will Pearson was commissioned by the agency, Salter Baxter, to photograph ‘4 More London’ for their client, the law firm, Lawrence Graham. The panoramas showcase the new building to staff about to move to the new riverside location, and to clients, illustrating Lawrence Graham’s prime location and corporate presence.
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Chennai, India
Chennai (formerly Madras) is an industrial city on the south-eastern Indian coast. Despite its commercial significance, it’s also well known for its cultural heritage and temple architecture. The coastline was badly hit by the 2004 Tsunami, with more than 200 dead, and many more displaced and losing their livelihoods.
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SEAT Leon Cupra 240PS
SEAT’s agency Geronimo created a microsite for the launch of the new Leon Cupra 240PS and commissioned a virtual tour to show the car from all angles. The photography is mean and moody, echoing the car’s powerful and aggressive lines. The tour can be viewed as a small screen ‘taster’, or as a full screen which shows the car off in detail.
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Yungfuktoi Fashion
Fashion Shoot for cutting-edge goth and alternative fashion label Yungfuktoi. This shoot exploited the format to show the clothes off in an atmosphere of edgy debauchery. Often appearing in separate places within the same shot, the models are able to interact with each other in wholly unexpected and exciting ways. Using the panorama format offers some distinct advantages: This way of shooting also allows us to showcase outfits from the collection in different poses and from different angles within the same shot. A new and exciting idea for a fashion label.