Abbas Creations Photography

03/20/2026

Frozen In Time Wall Mural
4.63 Gigapixels, 13 ft. 9 in. x 25 ft. 10 in.
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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/

10/31/2025

Palouse Falls Sunrise - This Fine Art Wall Mural Photo is the world's largest highest resolution image ever taken at this location.

The original full sized image is:
15.78 Gigapixels
106,196 x 148,675 pixels
354″ x 495″ (29 ft. 6 in. x 41 ft. 3 in.) 300 PPI original image size.

Available for licensing or as prints here:
https://abbascreationsphotography.com/palouse-sunrise/

10/31/2025

While I am not scheduling any future workshops, I am still open to doing private workshops on my Gigapixel Photography. More info at this link:

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

10/24/2025

Myrtle Falls

Paradise Region, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington

Mt. Rainier National Park was our second destination during our Fall 2025 Photo tour. I had selected Myrtle Falls as one of the must photograph locations within the park. Fog and clouds plagued our time during our stay and we never did get a clear view on Mt. Rainier. The view in this photo is the closest we got to seeing the mountain. A huge Lenticular Cloud Crowns the mountain peak (not uncommon) giving the illusion of a UFO hovering over the peak. Puffy low hanging clouds were dancing on the slopes of the mountain.

This panorama consists of 110 individual 45 mega-pixel focus stacked images derived from 992 focus bracketed images. It was shot with Canon R5 at f/11, 1/1000th second exposure time and ISO 400 using a 200mm focal length on Canon 100-400mm lens.

The original image is:

1.77 Gigapixels
33,295 x 53,164 pixels
111″ x 177″ (9 ft. 4 in. x 14 ft. 9 in.) 300 PPI original image size.

https://abbascreationsphotography.com/myrtle-falls/

10/24/2025

Sunrise Light On Eagle Falls at Emerald Bay

A special thanks to our friends John and Val for inviting us to spend a week with them at their beach house at Lake Tahoe. While there John took us to this location on a sight seeing tour. He and I went back a few days later and I shot this wall mural.

This panorama consists of 192 individual 45 mega-pixel focus stacked images derived from 3567 focus bracketed images. It was shot with Canon R5 at f/11, 1/250th second exposure time and ISO 400 using a 200mm focal length on Canon 100-400mm lens.

The original image is:
3.419 Gigapixels
43,857 x 77,968 pixels
146″ x 259″ (12 ft. 2 in. x 21 ft. 7 in.) 300 PPI original image size.

https://abbascreationsphotography.com/sunrise-eagle-falls/