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

Maternal Grandparents Wedding (1928)

My maternal grandparents were in the Salvation Army. This is their wedding in 1928. It is worth clicking on the image and having a closer look. It is one of those photographs where you feel you can connect with the people in it. I wonder why it has that feel when some photos don’t. Was it something to do with the atmosphere of the day? I wonder if any of the children are alive today. They would be in their 80’s I guess.