Friday 21 October 2011

Igor - New member of the family.

This is Igor, he speaks with a lisp but is keen to meet everyone.

Found wanting a home in an Alton Towers gift shop, he was left abandoned with a serious case of wonky face.

He's joined (Ray) Winston, I can see this collection of quirky stuffed toys getting out of control in the future.

 

Thursday 20 October 2011

Panoramic USA

Way back in June (2011) a few of us headed off to the states, while I still can't work out how we all survived I do have a lot of photos to prove I made it. Although if American Airlines had their we there wouldn't be any photos, but luckily my camera was in my carry-on.

Anyway, I'll avoid the rant by getting back to the subject of photos.

As we were going around America I found a liking for making panoramic photo stitches, basically you take a lot of photos with reckless abandon and let programs do all the hard work later. Sadly I only started doing this after we'd been through Yosemite, so missed out on some amazing views...

But now I've been back for some time and I didn't know what to do with the pictures - the quality and size of these in Google + and Facebook was to be honest, crap. To do a collection of ~180 mega-pixel pictures it was going to take a bit more effort to host. I can't really print them out, as B still holds going on a two week holiday with the boys (+ 1 honorary boy) against me.

Now I've got a website of my own I've put aside two little pages to show these pictures, ones in SD (which will work without any trouble) the other in HD (which will no doubt take a minute to load each picture). The biggest file is only 26mb, but captain cheap here didn't get the best web hosting.

I hope you enjoy them: USA

 

Visit to Petworth House - West Sussex



Right, best start blogging - it's been low down my to do list for a while now.

Last weekend me and B made it to Petworth house, a beautiful National Trust house which provided a good excuse to get my camera out and take some pretty pictures.

 Sneaky pap shot of B walking, away as normal.
 
  
Hoping to use this on a Christmas card or two

 

 
 For some weird reason there was a massive number of ladybugs.
 And soap, that that made more sense in the kitchen museum, I appreciated monkey brand.
Ending with a panoramic shot of the house.