"It's not so incredibly wide-angle..." Did you note how wide the street and sidewalk are? Yet he gets pretty close to the opposite side. Looks like a very wide-angle to me. My widest lens is 18mm and I'm pretty sure I couldn't fit all that in a shot. "...apart from the window frame there's nothing particularly close to the "camera". " The window frame was my point of reference; it's the key. "Stopped right down, and on a tripod, it doesn't look impossible. And it's hard to tell, but the distant objects don't look quite sharp. Which is something I've done with my camera when there's a little haze." Interesting. I doubt I could get anything like this with any of my lenses. But I'll try next time I visit a city with six-lane streets and 15-foot wide sidewalks. Do you have any tips? What lens/settings did you use?