We specialise in this work by shooting high aspect ratio panorama files from numerous high resolution files stitched together.  A recent one was 26 metres long – an aspect ratio of 1:11 height to width! That’s dealing with the top of the pyramid of images – very few files can go this size.  Luckily we have many panoramas in stock that can, often made from 6+ high res files stitched for maximum quality.
Here’s the crazy 26 metre wide install (link to the original photo). Photo file was well north of 1000MB in size:

And a beautiful HUGE boardroom graphic (original image link here):

Another huge supergraphic scale mural install – this one at 13 metres wide. Again very few files can handle this high width to height ratio.  You definitely wouldn’t want to take a traditional format file and crop it to this aspect ratio, throwing most of the data away, before having to enlarge to massive size – more top of the pyramid file selection needed here. This one was shot on medium format digital camera with multiple frames stitched.  Both of the above were printed and installed by the folks at Frosted Glass by Design. Here’s a link to the original file

And an interesting recent install onto a boardroom sectional door for a maritime based company. You can’t see here, but the whole decor of the wider zone hangs off the mural hues.

Below are a few example pages and a brief explanation of the design and photographic themes involved…

The sections were based around light based themes, ‘lighting the way’, ‘laser-focused research’, ‘bright spots’, ‘full spectrum’ and ‘illuminating the path’.  So it was appropriate that we settled on dark themed cover and section heads, adding light in as appropriate to the theme.  This also ties to the cover image above, representing the dark lightless landscape, with city scale built environment behind a rudimentary personal shelter, the basis of all building we need. This dark theme leads on through the document.

Here are two of them, the bottom green one captures a study using lasers to understand house ventilation better.

Illustration of real world issues and problems like ventilation and condensation often had very literal images, but that approach does not really add to the story. For instance, school ventilation is a vital issue for Covid management and an issue investigated by BRANZ, so rather than basic photos of open windows we created much nicer to real world scenarios showing opening windows being used, such as this:

Illustrating concepts of ventilation, good practice, lung health and research

BRANZ supporting science literacy in schools.

Mental health and suicide prevention is an identified risk in the construction industry, and is now getting better attention.

Here’s the original photo file that was used to print direct to glass by Thermaseal in Christchurch with an advanced ceramic printer

Here’s a look at the other tattoo, and here are some of Rob Suisted’s amazing NZ native falcon images. This series of NZ falcon images has had some interesting uses by the way!

My dad’s school project from 1953, signed 29 years later by Sir Ed Hilliary

Then I found another gem – a crisp new $5 note with the image of Sir Ed.  It was signed for me ‘To Robert, Ed Hillary’. Wow, Dad had asked Ed to do this in 1994.  Pretty neat to have this memento from such a figure in history, and someone who has been an influence and hero in my life.  It took a few moments for this to sink in. Then it dawned on me – the Reserve Bank approached me for about 20 photos to be used on the new bank notes back in 2016, and they used one of these (of Aoraki Mt Cook) to face up beside Sir Edmund Hillary.  That mountain, with my name written over the top, has now been replaced by a photo taken by my own hand and eye.  That seems pretty neat.

Clearly Dad had a huge man love for Sir Ed.  He crossed paths with him a few times, especially while Sir Ed was the NZ high commissioner to India, as Dad was involved with foreign aid development work throughout Asia and India.

Looking back now it seems my father really took Sir Ed’s words, written in his childhood project book, to heart as he went on to be a well known and much loved champion of the arts (especially acting) in NZ, where he helped many others aim high and conquer their own ‘Everests’, including some of our best known and loved actors and directors.

I suspect Dad is also pretty chuffed that Sir Ed now looks at my version of our highest peak Aoraki Mt Cook every day in my wallet.