Photo Project 1, 20. Self Portrait

I've got a feeling this has been covered off before in a post about the 10 Second Challenge - basically you set the timer on the camera and run to be in shot, some of the mores tricky locations for this were on the end of the Grand Canyon or on top of the Death Valley sign (the silly footwear was on account of American Airlines deciding to send my shoes (and rest of clothes) on a tour of the states without me).

Also on that previous post was me staying very still in a river... well I've taken that picture and added it to a few more to make a panoramic.

Photo Project 1, 8. Perspective

Perspective... Well the 'weirdest' shots of perspective are normally photo-stitched jobs.

This is a 360 degree view from Hoover Dam taken summer 2011... because of the perspective it looks like the road on the dam is a straight line on the right and also behind the picture going off to the left.

10 second challenge

Right, pictures... they're great, so great in fact sometimes I want to get in shot.

I can't really leave this down to other people, because I'm known for taking pictures nobody else bothers to bring a camera!

This means I can use the remote, which is great but its range is only slightly longer than my finger. Leaving me with my camera's 10second timer, for some shots this is a little hairy.

Of course the world record for 100m is under 10seconds... but I'm not that fast and jumping around near the edge of the Grand Canyon, over rocks in a stream or up the Death Valley sign require a little more attention


Here's a few examples of it working:

Sneaking in on the right

Climbing up that sign wasn't as hard as getting down.

It looked more dangerous at  the time.

Up a Tor in Devon

In a stream (still in Devon).

And one of it not working:

I didn't manage to pose, I blame it being gravel, wearing wearing flip-flops and not wanting to fly off the end. We did get it next time, but to be honest with all the cloud it really wasn't worth the effort!

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