Burning Man Photography & Panoramas

Everybody who goes to Burning Man with a camera wants to somehow capture all of it. That's not possible, but taking giant panoramic photos is as close as I have come. Staring in 1999, I began putting them up at full resolution in an installation at Burning Man, for the past 12 years seen on the Esplanade and other locations.

They are also here on the web (now at full resolution, or as much as your screen can do) with my galleries of still photos and photo essays, and other articles I have written related to Burning Man.

The Photo Galleries

The later shots are the largest and most spectacular, as I've gotten better, and better equipment, with time. 2002 features the first good night-panorama. 2003 features a night shot from the man and the biggest (1/4 gigapixel) that I have taken. 2004 features a shot from a cherrypicker on the very centerline of the city. 2006 features a shot of the burn. 2008 has the temple burn and a shot from Babel.

Your browser may rescale the image to fit your screen. If so, click on the control box to see it full size and scroll through it yourself. Or download and use a quality image display program.

Buying Panoramas

I have some of the panoramas on my walls. One surrounds my staircase and takes me back to Burning Man each trip up and down the stairs. Generally, the Burning Man LLC restricts the sale of photographs taken at BRC. They have consented to the sale of these images provided a donation is made to the Black Rock Arts Foundation in the range of $25 (but they are of course happy should you give more.) I can send prints to you like you saw on the playa for about $10 per square foot. (Thus a 10' by 1' image would be $100 plus the donation, plus shipping.)

Warning (or teaser) -- there is nudity in these photos. But frankly, if you're going to be like half the visitors and click only on the photos that might have a naked breast in them, there are really much better sites in the BM photo archives for that.

Articles and other projects

Here are other articles and stories of other projects I have done at Burning Man.

• I have a Burning Man Blog category, where I write my most recent thoughts and photo announcements.
• Free Phone Booth - the story of the free phone booth I build in 2004, using WiFi, VoIP and a satellite link to make a working phone.
• The Irreducible, my art car.
• The Green Man -- how possible is it? Some thoughts on trying to be green at an event we burn a million gallons of fuel to get to.
• The revised map of the constellations for the Vault of Heaven theme.
• What is Burning Man? - the subject of endless essays, this is another way of thinking about it. See the BM Home Page for a newbie article about this.
• Thoughts on the Nature of Burning Man - some thoughts, criticism and ideas for the future of Burning Man.
• Power with limited generator use at Burning Man
• How to make a high-powered power grid on the Playa.
• RV vs. Tent at Burning Man for the Black Rock Gazette
• Alternate Exodus Plans to fix one of the worst parts of Burning Man.
• Save the Man Protest - joining our annual protest, which now even has a theme camp.
• T-shirt gallery at Zazzle. Zazzle deleted the Black Rock Cafe shirt, the wimps. If you want to make your own shirt with an iron-on transfer, go ahead. The Zazzle link is for those who want a house to do the work for them and pay extra. Whoops, BMOrg had Zazzle kill all Burning Man shirts!
• Bugs in the 1998 picture and a discussion of problems that can occur.

Here are some other useful pages.

• My home page
• Photography Page (Lots of other places around the world.)
• Panoramic Page (I shoot panos of far more than Burning Man.)
• Notes on viewing the photos