http://www.hyam.net/blog Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:20:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I was impressionable and even more naive than now I was warned not to trust anyone who started a story with "When I was in ...". This was tremendously good advice. For some reason the society I swim in rates travel above all else and fails to see it ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/226 [caption id="attachment_202" align="alignright" width="80" caption="RMS - Virtually April '08"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/199 Using a little app called Pano you can do in-phone panorama stitching. Fun. http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/198 [caption id="attachment_193" align="alignleft" width="480" caption="iPhone Lillies"][/caption] http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/192 Joscelyn (8 years old) came home with an assignment to write a poem about Scotland because it was near St Andrew's day. The instructions on what was required were a bit confusing. She has a piece of paper with SCOTLAND written vertically down the edge so each line began ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/170 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. [caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption=" 'Resonance' (125 x 171cm) ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/166 I wonder if it is more satisfying to zoomify this kind of image rather than have it as a panorama. http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/151 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 - ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/133 http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/128 I have been doing some thinking about capturing images of herbarium specimens so as to facilitate the "taxonomic process" - whatever that might be. The trigger for writing this down was a quote from an excellent series of papers on digitisation of specimens: “Plant sheets are usually scanned at somewhere around ... http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/108