Sydney Harbour is renowned not only for the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, but also for its panoramic night view. No wonder tons of photos and images of that particular area keep popping up on the net. Let's face it, though - not everyone is good at taking pictures. It's difficult to cram something so grand and majestic in one single shot. This is why Scott Howard put together 170 images taken with a Canon 10D and a Canon 100-400L lens. The result? An awesome 715 megapixel (40,000 x 18,000) photo of Sydney Harbor at night.

Most of the photos were taken using 400mm, with some "fill" shots (e.g. sky in the top left corner) taken at around 200mm. All photos are at ISO 200, 6 seconds, f/6.7 in manual mode. All the office buildings are taken at least 1200 meters (about 1300 yards) away from the camera. The Harbour Bridge shot was taken about half of that distance. When zoomed in, the image is made up of 14,729 .jpg files, each about 5 to 15kb in size. The original image is a 1.3GB Photoshop file.

Check out Scott Howard's photography site and play around with the picture. You can zoom in, zoom out, move it left, right, up, and down. It's fun and it's breathtaking.