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04 December 2019

Lancaster - Castle and Ashton Memorial

     

Castle Keep entrance


Steps to path around the castle
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Steps to Castle Keep entrance


Christmas Emporium, Lancaster


Lancaster Priory Church altar steps


Nearby Lancaster Priory Church


Steps to Lancaster Priory Church
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Cones on duty at Lancaster Castle



Ashton Memorial, Williamson Park, Lancaster


Ashton Memorial, Williamson Park, Lancaster










       





13 March 2019

Branch Network

I love the patterns made by the tree branches near my home especially at this time of year when the leaves are not on them. It's simply fascinating to study the branch network and easy to see how the squirrels get so much fun out of the many routes available to them. There's a red kite regularly swoops down in the Close on the track of some rodent it has most likely spotted, whether it's a squirrel or a mouse or rat, I can't say. And then, if you're lucky you might also see the sparrow hawk that will attack things like pigeons and even squirrels if they get the opportunity.














And here's what they look like normally...












05 July 2018

Houghton Hall Park 2014 Animated Gifs Part 4


Back in 2014, Houghton Hall Park had not been touched by the Heritage Lottery Fund Regeneration Project. I was interested in Photosynth, a project of Microsoft's since abandoned. Many pictures were taken, uploaded to Photosynth, which then did its magic and created oddly flowing videos.




PART 4





←PART 1  | ← PART 2  |  ← PART 3 | THIS IS PART 4








Houghton Hall Park 2014 Animated Gifs Part 3


Back in 2014, Houghton Hall Park had not been touched by the Heritage Lottery Fund Regeneration Project, but Microsoft was experimenting with Photosythn since abandoned. I took hundreds of shots of a walk around Houghton Hall Park. I've used the images I took for that project to create this animation (details see Part 1).


PART THREE: 21.7MB, SO MAY TAKE AWHILE TO LOAD










Houghton Hall Park 2014 Animated Gifs Part 2


Back in 2014, Houghton Hall Park had not been touched by the Heritage Lottery Fund Regeneration Project. I was interested in Photosynth, a project of Microsoft's since abandoned. Many pictures were taken, uploaded to Photosynth, which then did its magic and created oddly flowing videos.


PART TWO:  THIS IS 23MB SO MAY TAKE AWHILE TO LOAD


← PART ONE | This is Part 2   | PART THREE →





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.