Packing for the Coast to Coast walk.
How could any blog by an englishman not include the weather? Well, up until now I have been trying to figure out how to ensure that I could quickly and easily record the weather, and perhaps explain a little bit more about my travels.
Using Cricket Moods (I was so excited by the name when I spotted it buried in the depths of a plugin list – I so hoped it has something to do with cricket!) and adapted with a set of weather icons I can now include an update about the weather at the end of each post.
Took a break from painting the flat and spent the bank holiday at home (my parents). It gave me a chance to play with my cameras, and to perfect normal panoramas (see below for a picture of the garden) and fisheye images.
Unfortunately the fisheye images have so far come to nothing – not only does it seem devilishly tricky to get the images lined up (even with a rotator) it takes even more effort to stitch them together. No luck again this time. I will give them one last go from the top of a fell in a couple of weeks time and see if they can be perfected with the wide open spaces of Cumbria and the North York Moors.
One of my favourite areas of RHS Garden Wisley was the Pinetum. I took this panorama one lunchtime during my last weeks I was working for the RHS.
Just before I left the RHS I had one last weekend duty… Sure I could have timed it better, but then I would not have had the opportunity of honing my panorama skills with this image of the inside of the new glasshouse.
WP PTViewer has come to my rescue for both complete and incomplete panoramas!
Using Zoomify I have found this is the perfect tool to allow the image to be scrolled around and zoomed. Because it slices the original image and only loads the pieces when required it means some of the pictures can be quite large with good detail.
No more Zoomify, WP PTViewer has come to my rescue for both complete and incomplete panoramas!