In case you needed another way to quench your voyeuristic thirst, here’s an image of London captures the city in painstaking, extraordinary detail. It’s the highest resolution image of any city to date—if it was printed at normal photographic resolution, it would be a rather large 115 feet wide x 56 feet tall. Shot by photographer Jeffrey Martin over three days, the panoramic photo is comprised of 80 billion pixels (or 80 gigapixels), 7886 individual images shot from 36 stories up in the Centre Point building in central London this summer.As a portrait of modern day London, it’s like no other, and can rank alongside the great portraits of the city from artists past such as William Hogarth, Monet, Canaletto, or even literary portraits like Samuel Pepys’ diary, providing a snapshot (albeit a massive one) of a typical day in 21st century London. Go check out the full image here and get lost zooming in and out, spying on Londoners and the buildings they inhabit.
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