A tit in a tree in the snow. It’s a bluetit I think.
Archive for the ‘Photographic’ Category
A tit in the snow.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Panoramic Canada
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Back in July 2008 I took far too many photographs while I was in Canada. I’ve finally got around to sorting out some of the panorama shots from the lakes in Jasper national park.
These two panoramas were stitched together from 6 or 8 individual photographs with Hugin. The first is Maligne Lake from the north shore looking south, the second is looking east.
Both images are around 45 megapixels, and show quite a lot of detail. Click the thumbnails above for full size.
Eclipse Images.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Between gaps and breaks in the clouds I managed to record pretty much the whole eclipse. The filter I used gave a slight ghoating to the edge of the sun, making it look out of focus.
Published – well, kind of. And a nudge to google.
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Thanks to the magic of flickr stats, I’ve been able to track views of specific photographs on my flickr stream. Now I usually get 20-50 views per day (aside from last month when a private set was getting a few hundred views per day for over a week) and one photo in particular keeps cropping up in the daily viewed list.
This one: Sea slater (Ligia oceanica)
I’d not bothered to consider why, until I received an email from a Hong Kong based publisher requesting permission to use that image in their new biology text book, to which I agreed (Published! Yay!)
A bit of further digging, and I found out that image is also the top hit on yahoo image search for Sea Slater and for Ligia oceanica. Flickr is owned by yahoo, so it makes sense that yahoo image search would index the flickr database and that the publishers found the photograph via yahoo image search.
Eager to see if my luck was as good on google image search, I searched for the same two terms that works on yahoo. Nadda. I’m not anywhere on the first 5 pages – I gave up looking after those. So, perhaps this post, when indexed by google, will also get my sea slater (Ligia oceanica) noticed.
Oh, the creature in the photo? It’s a marine dwelling relative of the common woodlouse. Looks a bit like a modern-day trilobite to me. There is some more into over at the wiki page.
Yes, this post was pretty much a blatant attempt to manipulate my GIS rank for that photo. Will it work?
Local history Monday Tuesday
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Whalebone Lane, bit of an odd name for a main road in a town not exactly famed for its whaling fleets, isn’t it? Well, the name derives from Whalebone House, that stood close to the junction of the modern-day High Road and Whalebone Lane. The house taking its name from the large whalebone arch that formed the main gate.
The house was destroyed in bombing in April 1941, not much survived, although the whalebones did, being transfered to Valance House, where they were recently rediscovered.
There had been a house on the site since at least 1667, the house shown in the photograph above dated from around 1747. What follows is a somewhat incomplete history of the house and owners:
- c1667 Owned by a Mr. Bell (no further details)
- c1747 Daniel Pilon constructed the house shown in the photograph.
- 1783 Nicholas Peter Pilon
- 1823 to 1846, used as a school by John Peacock
- 1846 to 1855, owned by the Mull family. Sold off on August 10th 1885 by auction.
- 1887 Alexander Anderson
- 1889 to 1917 Philip Savill and Mrs M. Savill
- 1920 Reginald Wood
- 1922 Walter Hayter
- before 1941, owned by Mrs Lester.
When exactly and why the whalebones made their appearance, I’ve not yet been able to discover – anyone know?