View this full screen!

This is my first reasonably high resolution Gigapan. It is around 760 megapixel. It was a dark day on Saturday but I am quite happy with the results. You can see this pan along with some of my other efforts on my Gigapan home page. What I think is really ‘cool’ – and there is no other word for it I am afraid – is the ability to view these panoramas in Google Earth. If you have version 4.2 or later installed on your machine you can click on this link and it should launch Google Earth and

Back in April when I knew the RMS was going to close for three years for renovation I decided to do some panoramas to capture its pre-renovation state. As with many projects it reached a set level then sat on my hard drive without being launched. A chance conversation reminded me of it so I have put it on the web. Take a look at Royal Museum of Scotland – as it was in April ‘08 . You may find it looks better in Firefox than IE. I haven’t had a chance to mess with a Windows machine and work around the inevitable IE bugs.

The site uses the open source Java panoview rather than the commercial Pure viewer I have been playing with recently. Both approaches to publishing pans are rather clunky and inadequate I think.

Tapestry by Jo Barker

I spent a fun evening recently helping Jo Barker photograph her tapestries for an upcoming catalogue and exhibition. Her work is amazing. This one is my favourite of the session. Jo’s exhibition is at the Scottish Gallery and opens on 7th January.

I wonder if it is more satisfying to zoomify this kind of image rather than have it as a panorama.

On my way to work in the morning I often walk past the Scott Monument. Usually the guy who sells tickets to go up the monument is just opening up. Each time I think I’d like to go up but never do – until today. It was glorious I had the whole thing to myself for forty minutes or so and made this panorama. I then spent two hours in the evening trying to get it to appear in my Wordpress blog. I always find panoramas slightly disappointing when they are finished and on the web – I wonder why I bothered.

But today the BBC news website reports a study that says it is the least cheerful place in the UK.

Does this mean living in the best place makes people sad – probably.