We wish we had thought of it ourselves, but the credit goes to Greg Downing and the team at XRez for using Google Maps to display high resolution images. By using a zoom lens and stitching software you can capture in scene in extremely high resolution – typically in excess of 95,000 by 40,000 pixels using a 300mm lens and 612 overlapping images.

If you then take the technology behind Google Maps and replace the maps with the resulting image you get a plugin free navigation tool.

The XRez site is well worth a visit…

With over 100 panoramas now on the site its easy to lose the images that especially work well and capture the urban scene. As such we are planning to feature some of our favourites as new posts – the first of these is the panorama captured in front of the Chambermaid stencil by the artist Banksy, created in May 2006, on the wall of the Roundhouse in Camden. According to the Camden New Journal Article the maid is a portrait of Leita who worked in a Hotel in Los Angeles.

Libbey Cambell the newly elected Liberal Democrat Councilor stated that “Banksy should of got permission for the art and ask who is going to pay to have it removed?”. We are glad to say that is hasn’t been removed as the owners of the Roundhouse rather like it and it is refreshing to see innovative images on the streets of London. As for Libbey, you would of thought she would have other things to worry about in Camden to be honest…

View the Quicktime panorama of Banksy’s Stencil at the Roundhouse, Camden, London (2.9Mb). You can also simply view a larger version of the image (290K).

If you have any favourites or would like any in 18 x24 inch glossy prints – great Christmas Presents and very exclusive as we dont normally as a rule sell the images – let us know via the email link on the side bar.

With over 100 panoramas now on the site its easy to lose the images that especially work well and capture the urban scene. As such we are planning to feature some of our favourites as new posts – the first of these is the panorama captured in front of the Chambermaid stencil by the artist Banksy, created in May 2006, on the wall of the Roundhouse in Camden. According to the Camden New Journal Article the maid is a portrait of Leita who worked in a Hotel in Los Angeles.

Libbey Cambell the newly elected Liberal Democrat Councilor stated that “Banksy should of got permission for the art and ask who is going to pay to have it removed?”. We are glad to say that is hasn’t been removed as the owners of the Roundhouse rather like it and it is refreshing to see innovative images on the streets of London. As for Libbey, you would of thought she would have other things to worry about in Camden to be honest…

View the Quicktime panorama of Banksy’s Stencil at the Roundhouse, Camden, London (2.9Mb). You can also simply view a larger version of the image (290K).

If you have any favourites or would like any in 18 x24 inch glossy prints – great Christmas Presents and very exclusive as we dont normally as a rule sell the images – let us know via the email link on the side bar.

Gabys script to help create panoramas from Google Earth is now back on the server after getting lost during a ftp transfer – thanks to Gaby for sorting it out.

If your new to this the tutorial allows you to create panoramas from Google Earth using Gaby’s script and some photo stitching software. It is possible to output some stunning images using this technique such as the the panoramas sent in so far of: London, New York, Moscow, Belgium, Paris and Syndney.

The most recent addition is from Art Clark (thanks Art!) who has created a panorama of the Desolation Wilderness. The Desolation Wilderness is a 100 square mile federal “wilderness area” directly to the west of Lake Tahoe in California, United States. You can view the panorama from here.

Let us know if you create a panorama using the tutorial as would love to feature it on the blog..