Yes, because it does have that wonderful 50mp medium format sensor which gives remarkable resolution. Shooting the gigapixel took careful planning over some days and I established that a high (10m or so) that a small walkway directly opposite from the nave would give me perfect vantage point.Īs with the other gigapixels from 2018 I opted shoot the project on the Fujifilm GFX 50S. Every year in the historic Wells Cathedral which dates back nearly 1000 years the choir sings carols by candlelight where the Cathedral is illuminated by candlelight and we’re not just talking one or two candles here we are talking 3500 candles which take the team of virgers hours to light often strapped into safety harnesses for the task. When the call came to shoot that special end of Year gigapixel it turns out I didn’t have to travel very far from my country base in Frome, Somerset. I want to finish the year on a high, living in a small island with thousands of years of history, much of it still living, you don’t actually have to look too far to find something wonderful to photograph. That I had in many ways turned my back on the printed media (whatever that is these days?), to be asked by the Daily Telegraph, a news organisation which is played such a big part of my photojournalist life, sending me to nearly 50 countries since the 1990’s, was very special indeed. 2018 may not have been the year of the gigapixel but it certainly was the year of the gigapixel for me, having been commissioned to shoot to gigapixel images first of trooping the colour, and then of the act of remembrance at the Cenotaph in London.