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Polkerris

by 10 May 2009 in Natural world, Photography Comments are Disabled

Polkerris 3, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Walked to Polkerris this morning, along the cliffs from Par: picture postcard beautiful and I even had a sneaky bacon bap 😉

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Simon Jenkins: Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend | Comment is free | The Guardian

by 29 April 2009 in Politics, Natural world Comments are Disabled

Interesting comment at the Guardian, but people are taking this very seriously: We appear to have lost all ability to judge risk. The cause may lie in the national curriculum, the decline of “news” or the rise of blogs and concomitant, unmediated hysteria, but people seem helpless in navigating the […]

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Death knell sounds for Europe’s beekeepers | Reuters

by 29 April 2009 in Politics, Natural world Comments are Disabled

BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters) – Europe’s beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than a decade as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and intensive farming, international beekeeping body Apimondia said on Monday. “With this level of mortality, European beekeepers can only survive another 8 to 10 years,” Gilles […]

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Panoramic photos with Hugin

by 23 April 2009 in Photography, Natural world Comments are Disabled

Hugin is a panorama photo stitcher. Given a number of overlapping photographs, preferably of the same exposure, Hugin: Finds the control points which tie the images, Optimizes the images for stitching by distorting them to fit, Stitches them together, Blends the joins. Thankfully, it has a wizard which takes care […]

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Zauchensee Panorama

by 5 April 2009 in Technology, Top Tips, Natural world, Fun, Photography Comments are Disabled

Inspired by the documentation for Wee Planets, I created this panorama with Hugin, an outstanding tool for aligning, joining, blending and correcting images. I simply followed the installation instructions and threw six relatively carelessly-taken photos at it to obtain this result. It was reported as a “very bad fit” by […]

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