About Face

I’ve been using the “K2″ theme for WordPress from the beginning but decided I wanted to try something that will use a bit more of the available horizontal space on a typical browser.  I’m quite impressed with the “Atahulpa” theme.  It’s amazingly customizable even without knowing any HTML/CSS.

I’d be happy to hear what you [...]

The Biggest Picture

Ever since I found GigaPan and my friend Andre Gunther wrote his guest article on stitching large panoramas, I’ve wanted to do one.  While in Australia, I found a good subject: The Sydney night skyline, complete with Opera House and Harbor Bridge.  I spent two hours standing in one spot while I worked out the [...]

Moving Picasa Albums To A New Computer

Picasa is a pretty nice little program for organizing your photos and can’t be beat if you compare the price:performance ratio. However, it’s not perfect and one of the ways it’s lacking is when trying to move your photos to a new location either on the same computer or on a new machine.

The easiest [...]

More Punishment

Merry Christmas!!!

Google Earth now has entries for GigaPan. This is an amazing way to experience some places within Google Earth, but you’ll need v4.2 or later to see it.

In short, by placing a panoramic at the correct coordinates and specifying field of view, elevation, tilt, etc. it becomes possible to fly in to [...]

Color

It’s taking me a while to go through all the photos I took while I was in California at the start of the year. Rather than wait until I’m completely finished, I’ve posted some of them in my gallery and will add to it later. I’ve also increased the sizes of all the images there. [...]