Los Angeles Gigapixel 360 VR Deep Zoom Panoramas

Southern California in gigapixels

This is a collection of 39 deep zoom gigapixel panoramas, about 56 billion pixels in all, that I photographed from hilltops, rooftops and the coast across Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Catalina Island, Palm Springs, the mountains and San Francisco between 2011 and 2022. Each gigapano is stitched from hundreds of telephoto photographs, so you can start with the whole skyline and keep zooming until you can pick out cars, boats and people miles away.

The viewpoints include the slope behind the Hollywood Sign, Griffith Observatory, the Getty Center, the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, the Los Angeles City Hall observation deck, Thrasher Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, Palos Verdes, LAX, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Coronado and the San Diego skyline, Avalon on Catalina, the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands and Twin Peaks in San Francisco.

An interactive 360 VR tour

I built the tour so every panorama links to the others. Blue markers show where the other viewpoints are, so you can jump from Griffith Observatory to the Hollywood Sign or from Palos Verdes to Downtown Los Angeles. Nearly 300 landmarks and neighborhoods are labeled with a short description, from Disneyland and the Port of Long Beach to Alcatraz and the Transamerica Pyramid, and a map shows where each panorama was taken and when. It works in any browser on desktop, tablet and phone, with full screen, screenshot and share buttons.

Gigapixel and 360 VR photography for your project

A deep zoom panorama lets people explore a place for themselves: the view from a property, a development site, a hotel or resort, a city skyline or a landmark. I create gigapixel panoramas and 360 VR virtual tours across Los Angeles, Orange County and Southern California. See also my Bristol UK gigapixel panorama from Cabot Tower, and get in touch to talk about your project.