Abbas Creations Photography

07/04/2026

Exploring Nature One Billion Pixels at a Time

Every landscape tells countless stories.
Most photographs allow us to admire the view.
Gigapixel photography allows us to explore it.
Imagine standing before a mountain panorama where each step closer reveals something new—a distant elk hidden in a meadow, weathered textures in ancient granite, individual pine needles on a centuries-old tree, or climbers making their way along a high alpine ridge. Rather than losing detail as you move closer, the image invites exploration.

This is the power of true gigapixel photography.
Each image is created by capturing hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of carefully planned high-resolution photographs. Using advanced panoramic stitching and precision focus-stacking techniques refined over many years, these individual photographs are combined into a seamless image containing billions of genuine pixels—not pixels invented by artificial intelligence or software enlargement.

The result is an experience that encourages curiosity. Visitors don't simply look at a landscape—they discover it.

For museums, visitor centers, educational institutions, and parks, gigapixel imagery becomes more than artwork. It becomes a tool for interpretation, allowing audiences to examine geology, ecology, wildlife habitats, historic structures, and human activity within a single immersive visual experience.
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See how different that feels?
It's no longer about photography.
It's about discovery.
https://abbascreationsphotography.com/wall-murals/

06/06/2026

Lake Matheson 2026

Lake Matheson was the second of two locations we revisited on this trip that we had also visited during our 2019 trip to New Zealand.

The original full sized image as shown is:

2.84 Gigapixels
24,634 x 115,366 pixels
82″ x 384″ (6 ft. 10 in. x 32 ft. ) 300 PPI original image size.

Featuring some of the World's Highest resolution Images in the Wall Mural and Landscape Nature Photography Realm in Gigapixel photography.

03/20/2026

Frozen In Time Wall Mural
4.63 Gigapixels, 13 ft. 9 in. x 25 ft. 10 in.
(Turn on sound for narration.)
https://abbascreationsphotography.com/frozen-in-time/

02/27/2026

Mount Saint Helens 45 Years Later
1,694 MEGAPIXELS
Now available on my VASTphotos gallery

1,694-megapixel VAST photo: A very high resolution, large-format VAST photo print of Mount Saint Helens; landscape photograph created by John Freeman from Windy Ridge Viewpoint on Forest Rd 99, Cougar, Washington.

02/26/2026

My photo "Frozen In Time" is now available on VASTphotos.

4,635-megapixel VAST photo: A very high resolution, large-format VAST photo print of a frozen lake in the mountains with a beautiful mountain range in the background at sunrise; landscape photograph created by John Freeman at Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

02/09/2026

Frozen In Time - The Ice Waves of Dream Lake
As the chilly fall breezes succumb to the icy gales of winter in the Colorado high country, time seems to slow to nearly a stop as the land settles into it’s winter sleep. I had heard of the frozen waves that occur in winter at Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park for years and had wanted to hike up there to see and photograph them. The frozen ice waves are an unbelievable wintertime phenomenon that is caused by freezing temperatures and strong dry winds. It is called sublimation, which is the process where solid ice changes directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Dream Lake experiences incredibly strong dry winds during the winter months. Eddy currents of the dry air blowing across the ice surfaces slowly, but surely, wears patterns in ice’s surface. In locations near logs or rocks this is exacerbated even more.

However the thought of hiking to Dream Lake in the dead of winter wasn’t my idea of a “good time”. Last week a fellow photographer, one of my students I am teaching how to do gigapixel photography, asked me to go with him. So finally just 6 days shy of my 75th birthday I finally did it. Being a consummate gigapixel wall mural photographer, of course I was determine to shoot one of my trademark gigapixel photos of the scene. Over the past couple weeks folks had been posting photos of the ice waves on social media. I wanted to capture something that went beyond just another “me-too” shot.

This is a focus stacked, stitched image made up of 7090 individual focus bracketed images. This yielded 225 focus stacked sets in a 9 row by 25 column array. I was using my Canon R5 with a 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 lens with a Nodal Ninja M2 head on my carbon fiber tripod. Settings were 300mm, f/11, 1/100th sec., ISO 400. My nearest focal point was about 8 ft. from the camera that was mounted about 2-1/2 ft. above the frozen surface of the lake.

The image as shown is:
4.63 Gigapixels
93,696 x 93,276 pixels
165″ x 310″ (13 ft. 9 in. x 25 ft. 10 in.) 300 PPI original image size
Wall murals up to 13 ft. 9 in. x 25 ft. 10 in. 300 PPI

The second photo is the Moon I cropped out of the full sized photo. You can see the craters on the Moon.
This link takes you to the information page on my website.

https://abbascreationsphotography.com/frozen-in-time/

01/10/2026

Quileute First Beach Sunrise

I was going through some of the photos I shot last fall while on our trip to Washington and Oregon. I ran across this one but it took me three attempts to do the focus stacking and editing to yield me an image that matched the one I had in my memory from this morning.

The image as shown is: 1.49 Gigapixels, 19,325 x 77,300 pixels, 5 ft. 4 in. x 21 ft. 5 in. 300 PPI original image size.

Featuring some of the World's Highest resolution Images in the Wall Mural and Landscape Nature Photography Realm in Gigapixel photography.

12/08/2025

Truckee River Fall Reflections
I shoot this back in Oct. when Jean & I were staying with our friends John and Valerie.
This panorama is derived from 2111 focus bracketed images yielding 168 focus stacked images in a 7 row x 20 column array that resulted in a 2.9 gigapixel 10 ft. x 21 ft. photo.

Featuring some of the World's Highest resolution Images in the Wall Mural and Landscape Nature Photography Realm in Gigapixel photography.

11/26/2025

After 5 years of off and on work I have finally gotten my Gigapixel Workshop put into video and am excited to offer it as an online course. https://abbascreationsphotography.com/workshops/