Early this year I went to the ai-ah-tó-lás' country to visit Isfahan, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, not knowing how long it will remain so because it is said to be the primary location of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

I took some pictures there but being very busy during this year I didn’t find time yet to upload it. Meanwhile, back in the civilized world, Microsoft launched Deep Zoom, a cool new technology for Silverlight that allows to display high resolution pictures on the internet. In a nutshell, the deep zoom technology allows you to view large images by only sending to your browser the portion of the image that you will actually be viewing on your screen.

Combining Isfahan pictures and Deep Zoom the result is below:

Click to zoom-in, SHIFT+click to zoom-out.

Learn how I create this in less than 10 minutes here.
Read more about Silverlight here.