Ten minutes before I took this panorama, the salon was awash with hairdressers and their clients and a panorama then would have more resembled a blur.
Once the room had cleared and the environment and atmosphere completely changed, I pounced. The super bad (two words, not one) music was still blaring from the old skool hifi mind you. Just part if the furniture isn’t it?
It’s all Binky‘s fault. He told me about tilt-shift(ing) and has got me a little obsessed. Previously, I had just known it as miniaturisation because my wife’s camera calls it thus and I wasn’t aware of it’s vastness online. People have basically photographed mini-tilt-shift-cities, football pitches and have basically made the whole world look like Thomas the Tank Engine should chug past any minute.
Given my excitement at the concept, I had to see what people had done of our fine city. Binky: I challenge thee to do the same for Lewes. Given that Flickr is the photo legend of old web land, I turned there first and come up with some varying qualities of stuff… However, I quickly noticed how few (er… 1!) of the Swansea tilt-shifters were willing to open up to the world of Creative Commons, so you get a slightly less visual treat I’m afraid.
Update: Stephanie Rutt has given us permission to use an image of her lovely tilt-shift of Swansea. See number 7 below.
Update #2: Jason Stanley has also given permission to use his image (#5). Many thanks.
So, The Randwich presents the miniaturised-tilt-shift world of Swansea….
Photosynth is playing up and I haven’t been able to do a decent Photosynth for a few days. So, I’ve been quiet.
I’ve tried cleaning the 88 panoramas from it down to 30ish, but it’s still suffering and – worse case – it is fully crashing and switching off my olde iPhone 3GS.
So, I’m tempted to uninstall and reinstall to alleviate the issue. Alternatively, I’ll try to do something different every day for a month stretch. Any ideas?
Here is the playground at Castellamare nr Bracelet Bay from last week.
Ooh, it’s a hard life. Here’s a boy who has had enough of running about and has decided to chillax on the spider’s web thingy.
It didn’t last long. He was up and about in seconds. Just captured him in a lull point.
It’s still nippy out but we’d all just had a rest and drink, so we went back out and down for a scramble on the beach. It was an extended crew today of 4 adults and 4 kids with only a single pair of wellies between us, so it wasn’t perfectly planned but lots of fun had nonetheless.
Lovely – if not windy – day down at Langland Beach in Swansea. Was able to quickly capture a rapid panorama whilst number 1 child was dragging a concrete slab down to us from the top of the beach.
Started back at work today following three weeks off and my was it hard trying to get back into the groove.
This is actually the view from behind my chair. I previously had a desk facing in this direction – give or take a few feet – but now I am inward facing, with only my colleagues to view in our cramped space.
Although you can’t see the detail here, in the very distance is the seaside village Mumbles, a lovely part of Swansea.
And yes, I could have removed the window, but I like it as a frame for the miniature contents outside.
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