William Storage and Laura Maish 
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This image set was produced using the Photoshop HD View Export plug-in made by Microsoft Live Labs. We developed the viewer starting with Silverlight source code published by Microsoft.

Click the image below for the HD View page (requires Silverlight). The original stitched image is a 1.5 gigabyte tiff file, downsampled for use here to  25,000 x 7500 pixels. The 30 photos comprising this image were shot from a pier on 10/24/08. Each photo was taken at f/6.3, 2 seconds, ISO 400. The Silverlight viewer loads progressively more detailed image files as you zoom and pan with the viewer. If you view every spot in this image at maximum resolution, you will be downloading 3,866 jpeg files into your computer's internet file cache.

Use your mouse wheel or the provided buttons to zoom in and out on the HD View image. the buttons will disappear to allow an unobstructed, black-background view of the image, but they'll reappear if you move the cursor over them. Depending on your internet connection, it may take a while for the image to become clear after panning or zooming.