View from my window RFN
 

Has there been such a thread? Can't find one, so here goes:

Nice clouds this evening

Agreed, it's a beautiful scene.

Technically, is it a stitch-up of pics or a panoramic or crop ?
I ask because I've tried similar scenes as stitch-ups with my little Olympus, but they don't come out well.

LL, it is a crop. - I have only done 2 or 3 stitched panoramas in the past, here's one of them (180 degrees). There is at least one obvious join.

That's exactly what I've been getting too.
Maybe with something like an ocean scene it wouldn't be noticeable, but a scene with many details is frustrating.

sequoia

Mown field - the farmer has avoided where my septic tank is, as usual.

LL + limey - Those are lovely places to live!

I know. I feel so smug :blush:!

Do, do, do, lookin' out my front door...

Hi again, you may be interested in this little write-up + links of panorama photo-stitch software: http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/panowarp.htm

Today the farmer rolled the cut hay into haylage bales, then let the cattle into the field. He's dashing about now with the tractor scooping up the bales before the coos eat'em!

so jealous. I keep my windows shut so as not to see suburbia

Those cows look so real.

The grass is always greener, over the septic tank. ;)

Ah Limey, you so know I have to visit you!
You promised me boardgames and cats too!
(And I think singalongs, but that might be me being greedy)

Right outside my backdoor RFyesterday morning. This is our resident chipmunk who lives under our shed. HE/she was chirping away for several minutes on one of the deck posts.

Classic - I am so sorry!
Bruce - you are so right!
SG - you are so, SO welcome! (singalongs!!)
Pico - cute!!

And now, (OK, I stepped outside so's not to get glare from the windae), moonlight on the water ...

Limey I love the island you live on, I visited it many times.
:)

I'm so damn lucky :D

You're only a short distance from the Mull of Kintyre!

So the camera has GPS? Or you looked on an atlas? Either way, I can see the Mull of Kintyre, and Sir McCa's estate, from my window ...

:haha:

Well all I can say, Bruce and UT, is that it looks pretty damn big from here!!!

I looked on Google Maps, the finest atlas we have these days, when you said you were on Arran. Then later I was thinking about the song and got curious about where the Mull of Kintyre is. It was the Christmas #1 single when I lived there, but I never knew where he was singing about. As a bass player, Macca's my lifetime hero. Well I remembered what your Isle looks like when Maps showed me nearly the exact same location.

Such a place! My Mom's people were from Aran Island, Ireland its interesting that both islands are in similar positions vs their main islands. *google earth is so cool* Now I need a Gaelic dictionary.

had to look up the "mull of kintyre test." interesting!

It's been a day of contrasts - sunshine and torrential rain moving in bands across the country.
The first pic is of the front garden, looking into the Close opposite. That was an open field until I was about 14.

The second pic is taken in the time it took me to walk from the front to the back bedroom. I guess you can tell where the next rain is coming in from? In fact since sitting back down the whole house has darkened.

But yeah. We live on an estate. You can't see the sea from here neither.

And by the time I post this I've had to switch the lights on - it's raining again.
Just another view of the backgarden.
This was my room growing up. I am very familiar with this view!
The room I sleep in now was my brother's room.

So now at least you know what I see when I wake up.
I imagine it fascinates many people.

I'm very jealous of the plugins in that link, particularly the ones that allow for straightening via cylinder, etc.
Unfortunately (for me) I'm on a Mac and don't have the necessary software to run the plugins.

In any case, I thought you might be interested in the "stitching" I did today on the sequotia tree in my earlier post.
This panorama was created via HP SmartStudio software using 3 pics.
It is glaring how it needs straightening, particularly the Douglas firs on the left, but the tree, itself, seems to be pretty accurate.

Re sized. This camera not only takes the worst photos,grainy and lacking in color more than 50% of the time (this one is lucky only by the account you can get an idea of how the sun is casting shadows. ) it takes huge ones too. Original dimension was 3648 x 2736 My old cell phone took way better pictures than this.:rant:

A pool without bikini (or less) clad bathers, is like a day without sunshine. :(

:thumb:

Not exactly from my window, but just this morning a little way up the hill...

Lamp - that's a cheat!
Although I admit I only say that because it's so gorgeous I am jealous :)

It looks like it was taken in Wales.
And I mean that as a compliment.

Thanks... must be all that English ivy

Purty pup!

Downtown Pristina (Kosovo) RFN ...

I was there in Spring of '88. It was a dreary place then. Looks much nicer now.
http://commondatastorage.googleapis....al/5372352.jpg

Sorry about the enormous picture. In Limey's picture, the big building on the right with the white lettering is the one that I took my picture from.

Kosovo is a beautiful country. In front of the building it looks like they are flying flags for Albania, UN, and Kosovo. Is there a Turkish flag also?

Nice limey! Great photo....

20 years later it looks marvelous.

Sarge, I see flags for Kosovo, UN and Turkey - the white background flags are for commercial enterprises (an insurance company and a bank).
We certainly drove through some breathtaking countryside between the border with Macedonia and Pristina.
Glatt, I think my photo is looking in roughly the same direction as yours. I'll take a daylight one and we can compare!

What is the stone structure? Looks like some kind of remaining support structure.

Rfn

RF fifteen minutes ago.

This morning. Yep - we got 8 inches of snow & it still hasn't melted. And I thought this was the land of cotton..

Well, it is soft and white...

You get to take your patrol car home? How cool is that?

It also helps lower the neighbors insurance rates. ;)

Dedicated to Big Sarge...

I thought you said that red car was your patrol car? :confused:

I drive the red unmarked car. I took this pic in the parking lot of the PD. That was one night's snow fall. Sory for the confusion

Ahhhh. See, Sarge, I'd be a great detective. I notice everything! ;)

Lamplighter - that was awesome!

RFN. Up to four more inches on the way today and tonight.

So jealous.
We have heavy rain tomorrow morning just in time for school.
Although helpfully it looks like it will clear in time for me to come out of the hairdressers. I'll still get the bus home though - I figure three miles is enough walking for one day. I'd walk the fourth if it was snow.

wow...

What's that in the distance, Limey?