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05 July 2018

Houghton Hall Park 2014 Animated Gifs Part 1


Back in 2014, Houghton Hall Park had not been touched by the Heritage Lottery Fund Regeneration Project, and this was the brick and arched entrance from The Green behind the Pavilion, to the east of Houghton Hall.

Microsoft was experimenting with Photosynth at the time. The idea was to take pictures in sequence:  walk a space, take a picture, walk a space, take a picture... the pictures were then all 'cut up' by the online programme and restitched together via some algorithms, the effect was a realistic 3D walkthrough of a location. Many contributions were made from around the world, I made several, but eventually, Microsoft gave up on the idea.

So, here, I've used smaller images of my originals and created animated gifs of them using gifmaker.me/ - the site is free and accepts 300 images in one go, up to 20MB per file, automatically generating a result. I used an animation gap of 120 milliseconds. You then need to download the images and store them somewhere else as the site deletes them after a few hours. So mine are stored here.


This is Part one | PART TWO →


This is Part one | PART TWO →






28 May 2018

Woodside Link: Wild Flowers

There's a riot of colour on the verges around the A5505 Houghton Regis-Chalton Road, known locally as the Woodside Link.
    








      



29 November 2017

Sewell Greenway - Burnt Out Car & Scooter

While out walking in Sewell area and Maiden Bower surrounds yesterday I couldn't help noticing a burnt out car not far from Frenchs Avenue, and a burnt out bike or scooter at the foot of a chalk cliff. All now notified to Beds Police and Waste Services at CBC. Signs of our times.


    

























      







05 May 2017

Woodside Link / HRN2 2017


    

1. East of the Frogmore Rd - Wheatfield Rd footpath

2. Community Orchard. 
West of the Frogmore Rd - Wheatfield Rd footpath

3. From the end of Pastures Way.
Enough of a gap to get a car through there!

4. To the left the old route to Parkside Drive,
to the right, the new path leading to roundabout.

5. From Pastures Way path westwards.

6. View to the north.

7. View to the north west

8. Wider view to the north west

9. View towards Luton from the 'corner' roundabout.

10. Another view towards Luton.

11. Water retention pond, view towards M1

12. View due south

13. View due west towards Houghton Park, Parkside.

14, View to north east

15. Roundabout to serve  area east of present
Parkside estate. View south towards Pastures Way.

16. View from (15 Roundabout) north easterly.

17. View from (15 Roundabout) easterly.

18. Houghton Brook (River Lea) from wooden
bridge near (15 Roundabout)

19. Houghton Brook (River Lea) the wooden bridge near (15 Roundabout)

20. Parkside Drive Link road nearing completion.