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 image is 25,000 x 8530 pixels, stitched from 33 photos taken on San Francisco's Embarcadero. Each photo was taken with a Canon 5D camera and a Canon 70-200mm zoom lens at f/8 and 1 /640 sec. 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 2046 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.

Cupid's Span, the 60-ft high bow and arrow sculpture, was built by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Read the sculptors' discussion of it here.