About

Hello, I’m Moti Pinhassi, an Urban and Regional Planner from Netanya. For many years I have been active in the field of sustainable transportation and deals with fascinating and diverse transportation issues. In addition, I am also a photography artist creating spectacular handmade panoramas.

For over 25 years I have been creating panoramas by hand, without the use of Photoshop or other digital means. Each panorama consists of individual printed images, which are derived and pasted by hand into a large piece as a collage. The result is unique, interesting and spectacular panoramic photos, showing a 360-degree view with a straight horizon at a glance, something that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Over the years I have created hundreds of panoramas with a wide variety of different types of landscapes – sea, urban, nature, desert, night, winter, sunsets and more – from all over the country and also a little from abroad. The photos are printed on high-quality photo paper, and at the end of the process, the panorama is laminated in the oven in order to preserve it, and allow it to be cleaned with a damp cloth.

I am committed to providing excellent service and creating photos that fit the client’s needs and requests, according to the desired atmosphere. The spectacular panoramas manage to convey a sense of space and beauty in every space in which they are placed, and every panorama I create is a unique work of art suitable for anyone who appreciates art and quality photography.

So far, briefly… More questions? Please:

Location: Most importantly, location, location. I love places that go out of the box of the usual landscape we see on a daily basis. Whether it’s upstairs – tower top, side-by-side – pier, or some other kind of viewpoint.
When I get to the place I look and see where the view is, what element I want to be in the center of the panorama, and what element will be on the sides of the panorama – and when it comes to 360 degrees, it will appear twice.

Photography: I usually rotate 360 degrees myself at the same point, photographing with overlaps of about a third to half a photo, also taking care of the photos that will complete the background (sky, ground). Sometimes if it’s a wide roof, I walk around the perimeter of the building or place.
I like to photograph pleasant things for the panorama, such as birds, buses, boats, and also people. And especially nice that when they move they appear in the panorama several times. Sometimes I do this intentionally in the photograph, and sometimes I only discover it when I assemble the panorama.
Besides the panorama photos, I’m also taking some interesting photos, to add at the end of the post.

My Work Tools

My Work Tools

Connecting the pictures: My studio is the home, specifically the dining table that I expand as if I were holding the Seder 😆, I scatter all the individual photos on the table, each in its own area. There are many photos for each area, and I find the one that best suits or is interesting for the area and connects the neighbors to it. If necessary, cut with scissors or cut with a Japanese knife. I glue the pictures together with small double-sided glue stickers.
An average panorama consists of twenty-thirty images, which are selected from fifty to a hundred photographs and sometimes more. The photos that are not selected for the panorama are thrown in the recycling bin, but I save all the files.

The whole process takes a good few hours. Here’s a video from a live broadcast I made on Facebook, don’t worry, it’s summarized for at least a minute:

Lamination in the oven

Lamination in the oven

For the clients, I recreate panoramas that I have already prepared, this time in a big way, and preferably in a big way. I will be happy to come to you, measure the intended wall, photograph it and prepare a simulation and suggestions for a number of options.
On (almost) every page on the right next to the accompanying images, below the map, there is a slider with suggestions for sizes. After the size is chosen, I print the photos on high-quality photo paper in a photo shop (Photo Royal Digital), of course only the ones I chose for the panorama when I made it. After I have connected them to each other, I coat the panorama with laminate and take it to the gluing factory (A.S. Silver in Hadera), where it is crushed in a special oven. There I also buy sticky caps on which I glue the new panorama, and it’s ready to reach the customer, to be glued on the wall or hanged.
Note that this process is also handmade, so it is very possible that there will be a slight difference in the final dimensions, and also in the order of the photos in the panorama (i.e. how one image is glued to the other) or in the cutting of the images.

A unique and unforgettable gift for businesses: a book of panoramic photos from the landscapes of our country

Give your customers or special delegations an exciting and spectacular gift – the book “A View to the Holy Land” with beautiful panoramic photos that show the spectacular views of Israel from all over the country. Each page of the book is a work of art in itself, with spectacular panoramic photos of the most well-known and beloved places in the Holy Land.

Alongside the pictures, you will find verses from the Bible and classic Hebrew songs that add a deep and meaningful touch to any browsing. The texts appear in three languages: Hebrew, English, and French, making the book a perfect gift for a variety of audiences and cultural backgrounds.

To make the gift even more personal and special, you can produce the book on behalf of your business, and include a personal “double” in it that includes a greeting, a logo on the cover, and any marketing element you want.

This is not just a book – it is a full experience of landscapes, culture and tradition, which will leave a deep and unforgettable impression on every recipient. Turn every gift into something extraordinary and give the perfect gift that tells the story of our beautiful country.

For details and pricing, contact us.

Absolutely yes, you can order a custom handmade panoramic photo. You can choose the view, size, and details you want to include in your panoramic photo. If you ask me to cover, hide or plant certain details in the panorama, I am open to suggestions! And I would be very happy if you would send me somewhere I haven’t been to until now to take pictures there.

Framed panorama in laminate without glass, frame size 42×209 cm.

Framed panorama in laminate without glass, frame size 42×209 cm.

Panoramas up to a width of about 1.5 meters can be framed with glass. Up to two and a half meters wide can be framed with a laminate coating. Beyond that, I tried to find solutions but couldn’t, if you have an idea I’d love to hear it!

Edna Tajer Photographed Me Photographing (2016)

Edna Tajer Photographed Me Photographing (2016)

I’m not a photographer, I’m a photographer.

I mean, I’m not a professional photographer. I only shoot automatically, I don’t adjust the aperture and exposures, I don’t change lenses. For many years I was loyal to Canon’s PowerShot SX series, the upper bar of simple cameras that aren’t DSLRs. I replaced five cameras from this excellent series, which has an adjustable screen, and especially an amazing optical zoom that the last camera SX60 reached 65x. This is equivalent to almost a meter and a half of a “regular” lens, but as I said, I don’t change lenses.

For years I used to walk around, including while working in the municipality (and I walked around the city a lot as part of my job) with a camera around my neck. However, the years have passed and the technology has become more sophisticated and in recent years I have been taking a lot of photos with my mobile phone (today – the Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro). For day photography it is excellent, and for night photography it is even better than canon. At least with the knowledge I don’t have. But for big trips I do take the camera, mainly because I miss zoom, screen and clicks, even though sometimes the advantages of shooting on the phone outweigh the disadvantages.

I know that there are programs that do panoramas automatically, both on the computer and on the phone. Upload the photos and within a minute you have a perfect panorama.

But that’s not what I do. Computerized panoramas often have a curvature because the computer connects the images and bends them so that they connect. I’m not a bend, I’m a breaker. That’s exactly why you can see in my panoramas 360 degrees at a glance with a straight horizon, in computer panoramas the horizon is curved, because our sphere is also round.

Besides, I like to create the panoramas, including the creative process, even though it takes a long time. Or because of. If I do it on a computer it won’t be that much fun 😁

Oia, Antenna

Oia, Antenna

Absolutely. I don’t know how to use Photoshop, I don’t have it installed on my computer, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in starting to correct and retouch each of the individual images that make up the panorama. The most I do is press the I’m Feeling Lucky button on Picasa or the auto-enhance button on the phone.

All of this except for one and only time: near the Tower of David there is an antenna that I don’t understand who approved to be placed there. So when I prepared the book that the Jaffa Gate panorama appears on its cover, and also inside the night version, I asked them to take down the antenna in Photoshop.

And one more thing. When I finish a panorama, in order to upload it to the website or products (book, postcards, and other ideas along the way), I used to scan it. However, this gives differences in exposure in the scan that are sometimes noticeable, at least to my eyes with the self-criticism; There is dirt that is scanned along with the images that are especially evident in night shots; And it’s also hard to put the scan parts together so that it comes out straight. So what I do is take the images that connect the panorama, and connect them again – this time digitally, once with PowerPoint and now with Canva. But it’s still handmade because I’m imitating exactly what I did earlier on the living room table, in exactly the same way, and by hand. This results in a straight, clean, and much more beautiful picture.

As of October 2025, I have created 269 handmade panoramas, consisting of 5,254 individual images, with a total length of approximately 275 meters. And that’s just from the basic panoramas, measuring 10 x 15 cm.

The site is slowly populating, but even when I finish uploading the old material, you won’t see all the panoramas here, some of which I keep to myself for reasons that are reserved with me 🤐

The longest picture I’ve created so far is the one from Rothschild Boulevard during the 2011 protests. Not 360 but only 180 degrees, but that’s why it’s so long… Eighteen and a half meters! And this is from 10×15 size photos.

Since then, it has been displayed in a very respectable hostel, along three floors in the staircase of the Naftali Building – the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University.

The first panorama I created and composed by hand is the one fromthe roof of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris, in June 1999, more than a quarter of a century ago. Since then I have developed and perfected the technique, but I have a warm corner in my heart for both the city and this panorama.

The price varies according to the size requested, the number of individual photos that make up the panorama, the materials required beyond the photos, and the time required to work. For each panorama that can be sold (there are a few that I keep for myself) there is a slider under the map, where you can adjust the desired size, and you can see the price for a panorama with lamination on a cape; If you want additional processing or framing, this involves additional costs. You can contact us for a customized quote based on your needs and requirements.
Of course, if several panoramas are ordered together, a discount will be given accordingly.

Thank you! This is the link to Google reviews, and you can also write on the Facebook page.

I will answer happily. All you have to do is get in touch!

Articles from the press:

The World This Morning, Reshet, May 31, 2018:

Judaica in the Spotlight, 22.5.2019

Trouver En Israël, 20.2.2019

Virag Goulash, April 23, 2018, The Times of Israel:

Ruthie Berman, April 27, 2018, Netanya News: Cover Report!

Ilana Strauss, From The Grapevine, April 28, 2015

Rachel Neiman, Israel 21C, April 17, 2015

Ruthie Berman, Netanya News 27.3.2015

Erez Ronen, Holes in the Network, April 2, 2015

Ruthie Berman, Netanya News, March 15, 2013

Gal Mor, Holes in the Network, August 16, 2011

Ruthie Berman, Netanya News, June 24, 2011