First panorama

Here's the photo (series) that got me started. Holidaying at the Admiral Hotel in Bergen summer of 2006, I was sitting on the balcony watching the world go by.

I had a vague idea that if you took a sequence of pictures there was some way of joining them up, so without much idea what I was doing took a set of the harbour on my Olympus C5050Z. Back home I found that PixAround software was free and a couple of quick experiments showed it did a reasonable job. Bit of cloning to remove boats and their wash that showed up multiple times in the different frames and Bob's your uncle!

I just revived my Flickr account, triggered mainly by the big increase in storage allowed and am gathering my panoramas there

Competition finalist

As an example of the sort of pictures I was taking in 2007 here's one of a series of the London Eye on a very wet day. Since I worked ten minutes walk from the Eye , it featured in quite a few of my projects.

I entered this in the British Airways competition celebrating 25 million visitors to the London Eye, placed as a finalist http://dpnow.com/3832.html
Here are some of the other winners riding the Eye after the prizegiving on 27th April 2007

And for my 15 minutes of fame, a feature in the Hampshire Chronicle.

Getting started

On logging back in to Blogger, I see that I set up my account nearly six years ago in February 2007.

At that time I was working in Southwark and my 'carry everywhere' camera was a Canon Ixus 400, a little jewel.

I liked to take it on my lunchtime strolls for pictures in the area, especially panoramas. I'll probably dig some of them out to get this blog started.