Credit: gigapan.org

Of the thousands of pictures taken at Barack Obama’s Inaugural, few have the impact of the massive image knitted together from over 200 separate images and taken from the left side of the viewing area.

At first glance, this just looks like a wide angle shot of the event. Then as you zoom in more and more detail is revealed.

The image is at Gigapan.org, a site specializing in unusual and large format imagery. The Inaugural Panorama was knitted together from 220 separate images. See it here. And be sure to zoom in for the detail. You can read more about photographer David Bergman on his blog.