USA

USA panoramic photography and virtual tours. Locations all around the USA including San Francisco, Chicago, the National Parks of California and places of unique interest.

Mono Lake California

Mono Lake Dawn I shot this Mono Lake California 360 at dawn, before the heat of the day where the flies become bothersome and the smell starts to rise with the sun. At this early hour the lake is deserted and especially eerie. The water seems unnaturally calm. The light just tinges the limestone rock…
Humboldt Redwoods State Park 360

Humboldt Redwoods State Park From the moment that we learn as children that there are trees through which you can drive an SUV, or whose stumps have hosted a dance floor, the magic of the redwoods is instilled in us. Shooting in 360 really gives you the chance to appreciate these giants. You can wonder…
Laguna Beach Sunset

Laguna Beach 360 Who wouldn’t want to be a Californian, watching the locals paddle boarding in the sunset on Laguna Beach? Laguna Beach hosts one of the world’s longest running surf contests. Though, on the evening I shot this, surf wasn’t up. However, watersports definitely weren’t out, and a clutch of paddle-boarders took to the…
Olmstead Point 360

In this Olmstead Point 360 you can explore the incredible views across Tenaya Canyon to the north side of Half Dome. As you look towards Half Dome, on the left you will see the mountain known as ‘Clouds Rest’. Though the summer weather and glorious sunset didn’t offer any resting clouds on this occasion. You…
Merced River, Yosemite National Park 360

Yosemite National Park 360 – On the Merced River The Merced River in California runs for 145 miles from the Sierra Nevada down to the San Joaquin Valley and is responsible for the shape of Yosemite valley today. The river was part of the California Gold Rush, with Americans panning for gold in hope of…
Sunrise at Joshua Tree

Here you can explore a Joshua Tree 360. This was captured at sunrise around the solstice, with the surrounding Joshua trees casting long shadows on the desert floor. Where two deserts join, travellers are met by a landscape peppered with fantastical trees. “Their stiff and ungraceful form makes them to the traveler the most repulsive…
Lake Tahoe Twilight

Lake Tahoe 360 at Twilight Lake Tahoe is famed for its skiing in winter and its beaches with crystal clear water in summer. This makes it an incredible location, but one in which it can be tricky to find an uninterrupted view. This is key when you’re shooting a 360. I got to this spot…
California 360: Lassen Volcanic National Park

California 360 Photography Lassen Volcanic National Park is in the north of the state, far north of San Francisco and Sacramento and about as far removed from them as you can imagine. It has been kept, as far as possible, as a wilderness park, with nearly 90 percent designated as wilderness under the 1964 Wilderness…
Yosemite Landscape Photography: Cook’s Meadow

Yosemite Landscape Photography Cook’s Meadow offers views around some of Yosemite National Park’s most famous features. Scroll around the Cook’s Meadow 360 to see Yosemite Falls (one of the world’s tallest waterfalls), Half Dome, Sentinel Rock and Royal Arches. Shooting in Yosemite Depending on the project, I normally shoot alone, or just with an assistant.…
Mossbrae Falls 360

Photographing California: Mossbrae Falls 360, Shasta Cascades Mossbrae Falls is an incredible sight. A waterfall that cascades not just tall, but wide – about 175 feet wide (53 metres). It’s in Northern California, in the Shasta Cascades area, not far from Mt Shasta. You can explore the Mossbrae Falls 360 by scrolling around with your…
Tenaya Lake: California

If you visit Yosemite between May and November, you can reach the mile-long Tenaya Lake via the Tioga Pass Road. Outside these times, the weather conditions close the road. It is just these kind of extremes that helped form this stunning lake, created by the same glacier that forged Half Dome. Tenaya Lake wasn’t on…
Lake Tahoe

“Surely the fairest picture the whole world affords” said Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe, and when free of the crowds you can see just why. This 360 view looks out above Emerald Bay, over towards Eagle Falls (waterfall) and Fannette Island. We had sat out on the rocks, having a beer or two the night…
Highway 1 California

Highway 1, State Route 1, Pacific Coast Highway, Shoreline Highway. Whatever you call it, it is (with the possible exception of Route 66) the world’s most famous road. And with good reason – the scenery is magnificent and the route from Orange County in the South, through Los Angeles, Big Sur, central coast, Monterey, San…
Alabama Hills: Sunset

Having weathered the storm I captured this sunset later on the same day. You can see the stormy clouds over the Alabama Hills in an earlier shot taken from the same location.
Alabama Hills: Thunder Storm

Arriving here after a drive along Movie Flat Road you quickly understand why this area has become a favourite location for many filmmakers. The rugged, barren and geologically diverse landscape can be seen in hundreds of films, from classic westerns like The Lone Ranger to more recent films, including Iron Man and Gladiator. The Alabama…
Lake Siskiyou, California

The richly diverse landscape of California is a photographers dream. The night before taking this shot we rolled up in the dark and booked ourselves into a log cabin by the water, not knowing what to expect. The next morning we got up early to discover we’d hit gold with this majestic scene. The morning…
54.4˚C at Trona Pinnacles

I knew it was going to be a hot day photographing the Trona Pinnacles in the Mojave Desert, Southern California, but I hadn’t anticipated quite how hot. We clocked the temperature at 54.4C (130 F), only a couple of degrees centigrade off the all-time world record temperature (56.7C or 134 F), registered at the Furnace…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Los Angeles Beaches

Tour Los Angeles’ Pacific coastline virtually with this set of 360 panoramas of some of the beaches around Los Angeles.