Xor News » Photography http://www.flester.com/blog You can't have it both ways Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Boxwood with maple frosting http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/11/19/boxwood-with-maple-frosting http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/11/19/boxwood-with-maple-frosting#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:13:31 +0000 mike http://www.flester.com/blog/?p=241 Autumn color.

Boxwood with maple frosting

]]> http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/11/19/boxwood-with-maple-frosting/feed 0 America’s Historic Triangle Survives Our Visit http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/03/04/americas-historic-triangle-survives-our-visit http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/03/04/americas-historic-triangle-survives-our-visit#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:54:11 +0000 mike http://www.flester.com/blog/?p=107 We visited Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. It was very nice and although everybody didn’t enjoy everything we did, everyone enjoyed something.

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Some people enjoyed the Great Wolf Lodge, others not so much. Can you guess which ones are in which group?

The Williamsburg Green

The Williamsburg Green


Not too crowded on the day we were there, although the weather was just about perfect. I think there is a ghost wandering around on the green though.

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Funny hats were worn by several in our party.

Buford and Billy O.

Buford and Billy O.


Buford learned about Billy O. a.k.a. William III of Orange in History class.

Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement


We brought everyone home with us, but just so you know, we didn’t have to.

Powhatans

Powhatans


We found out that we would not have made very good Powhatan Indians – too soft around the middle.

Cool tools and lots of wood shavings.

Cool tools and lots of wood shavings.


That was worth seeing.

Afterward we had a nice visit to the Carlisle Avenue Gospel Chapel in Richmond, Virginia and a nice lunch afterwards.

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Outer Banks, Waves, NC

The image is large (9MB) so don’t click if you are on dial-up. Does dial-up still exist?

Upon putting the camera into panorama mode, the next step is to indicate whether you will shoot moving left or moving right. The camera then lets you take up to 26 pictures and keeps showing the last 1/3 of the previous picture on the large LCD screen as an aid to lining up the next shot.

Having taken all the pictures they should then be downloaded to a folder on the computer. This panorama comprises 13 images shot at 3 MP resolution (the camera does 12.1 MP) and then stitched using the Canon software on Mac OS X. The stitching process took about 4 seconds. I think it did a pretty reasonable job and I’m excited to try it out some more.

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