Peru’s Rainforest Expeditions’ photo tour director Jeff Cremer recently shot what is believed to be the highest resolution (15.9 gigapixels) photo ever taken of Machu Picchu. This unprecedented image has been made available to the public on a special web page at http://www.gigapixelperu.com . Users can explore the remarkable detail of the photo by zooming in and out of the image. Individual snapshots may also be taken from within the image. Cremer’s work was partially assisted with professional equipment regularly used in photography tours based from Rainforest Expeditions’ three eco-lodges deep in the Peruvian Amazon. Cremer used a Canon 7D with a 100-400mm f/5.6 lens and a Gigapan Epic Pro mount and Gitzo Basalt Explorer tripod. The photo consists of 1920 separate images recorded by a photo-robot in one hour and 42 minutes. To stitch the image together a 2.67Ghz Hexacore MacPro with 32GB Ram and an OCZ 960GB RevoDrive was used. Render time was 1.5 hours. The final resolution of the image is 297,500 x 87,500 pixels or 15.9 gigapixels.