Geography and all that Jazz

Photosynth: my first effort... After the school run today, it was a quick trip up to Hunstanton to take 164 pictures of the famous stripy cliffs: the southern end of the cliffs near the promenade - thanks to my Nikon D40X that took about 5 minutes as I wandered from the carrstone boulders in the tidal zone, to the base of the cliff and zoomed in on some of the individual rocks in the red and white rockfall zones. The light wasn't ideal, but that wasn't really the point in this case. I then batch-resized the images ready to create a PHOTOSYNTH. Taking my cue from Ollie Bray 's BLOG POST, I installed Microsoft Silverlight, and then PHOTOSYNTH itself (having to keep reminding myself to use Internet Explorer rather than my usual Chrome) PHOTOSYNTH installs 2 programmes: a web-browser plugin for viewing the 'synths' and an application for creating them. If you've read this far and are thinking "what's a Photosynth anyway ?", here is a DESCRIPTION. A d...

Hunstanton Promenade Vid I shot this morning with my FLIP VIDEO camera... (my new favourite toy)

Enjoy my new FLICKR set for those needing some shop images, or doing coastal resorts. How many of these shops are designed for tourists rather than residents ? You might be surprised...

Up very early today: the house was too hot, and outside it was about 5 degrees cooler at least... Out to Hunstanton which was deserted at 6am apart from the people waiting for the first bus into King's Lynn, the man watering the hanging baskets, the newsagent bringing in the bundled papers and the council workers in the promenade gardens. Took loads of early morning pics. The green was strewn with fish and chip boxes which had been hauled out of the overflowing bins by the gulls... Here are a couple of my favourites..