I promised myself to stay away from gigapixel images for a while. I’ve written about so many of them on this blog and it almost feels like a catalogue of the biggest and the most impressive gigapixel images. But here is something new. Jeffrey Martin, who kindly answered my questions about his gigantic panoramic image of London, has published another stunning image. But this time it was taken indoors. The Strahov Library is a very impressive – and historically very important –

The latest gigapixel project seems to be the biggest produced to date, yet probably even more boring than the experimental Dubai one. Budapest. A lovely city. Full of great architecture and history. So why photograph it from miles away when visibility is far from perfect? I’m sure the initial idea was great – get a 360-degree panoramic image with the ability to zoom in on the finer detail – but it disappoints. Most of the image shows forests, Budapest itself seems to be too h