A. Aronsson’s WeBOLLog

These pictures are from a month ago. I really need to post photos quicker, then again, I still haven’t posted anything from my summer vacation! I better get to that, soon…

When I arrived at work in the morning I noticed how the bushes had many white speckles of wet webs, spider webs. Of course I couldn’t resist taking a few pictures.

A bit interesting to see something like this when I (quite naturally) hadn’t seen the webs on the bushes before! The entire world is probably covered in webs; they are just normally hard to see.

Hurt fingers greets healthy fingers.

Of course special situations awake ideas in my head. Hopefully my left index and long finger will feel better soon enough. Like, in six months.

A week ago I took a walk with a friend to scout out a track for running. While strolling along I snapped a few pictures of the wonderful vegetation. Below is a very small collection of five pictures, of which three are panoramas!

The last panorama was made up of more than 35 snaps! Original resolution is 8475×4817 pixels :) Not super-huge, but large enough to take up a lot of memory!

Last Friday I was out on a boat trip. It has been a tradition here at work to have a trip for the employees every year, before summer vacation, and this year we went out on the Göta Canal, again. Apparently it has happened a few times before, but each time different parts of it.

I have finally had time collect some of the images I took. Again, I usually post pictures without much people in them, as I wouldn’t want people to post pictures of me online without asking either.

We traveled down 16 flood gates, descending about 40 meters I believe.

There are lots of trees next to the canal, and some houses! You can also travel by bike along it.

We ended up in Sjötorp, where I found this wall full of bird houses, and later took a picture of the boat we had traveled with as it moved out. We were taking buses back.

While waiting for the buses to leave, I went out on a pier and found these old poles behind some rocks. I find it more interesting to photograph old worn things, than new and shiny things.

One of the rings you can attach your boat to when between flood gates.

I managed to make at least one sky panorama.

Next are pictures from when we had reach our final destination. First the boat, and then the small harbor, and lastly a building I happened to l see while walking to the buses.

Currently the plugin I use to display the pictures does not make a caption from the title of the link, which the Blog software adds, but the title of the image. I’ll try and mess with it to fix that myself if it isn’t included in the next version or so as I like to have descriptions in the title property.

That’s it for now!

Update: Apparently dragging images after adding them totally botches up the links, fixed that now! I wonder if any olds posts are broken as well…

These images are from last Thursday, loads of high altitude clouds, displaying a cloud landscape with an incredible depth. I managed to botch up the exposure between shots, so the images didn’t end up panorama friendly.

Next up are a few photos and panoramas from the weekend, where I spent time at a lake for a barbecue, and then at a villa to participate in a birthday celebration. I ended up staring at the sky at these occasions as well.

There two first panoramas are of the lake, in the evening. First a horizontal panorama, and then a vertical.

When walking back to the parking lot to ride home I couldn’t resist snapping a picture of the sun beams striking across the sky.

This is at the villa, first a panorama from the ground, and then a panorama where I rotated the camera 90° from a window on the second floor.

Lastly a picture of the three trees with the sunset behind them. Lots of sun/cloud/sky interaction recently, but it’s hard to resist when I think the colors are so fantastic, and the volumetric properties of the clouds in addition to their scale. A nice sky makes me take deep breaths and enjoy my existence.

Again, all these pictures and panoramas were taken with a pocket compact camera, an Isux 75. I should really get a DSLR, but then again, a DSLR would be hard to fit in my pocket and carry around all day long.

Why settle for a photo when it’s fairly easy and comfortable to stitch together panoramas nowadays! This is the sky I saw when walking home from a friend last night. It was pink at first, but as the sun set, the light rose up to color clouds further up in the sky burning orange. It harmonizes very well with the grayish blue metal sky.

The first picture is a vertical panorama, which rises up in the sky. The second is a more traditional horizontal panorama, showing the streak of orange. I display them as thumbs here because of their varying proportions, click to see the full versions!

This is two months old, but as I’ve started to post photos I could just as well post a few more things. I’ve had these different barriers of what to post. First I was just going for the illusions, as that was one of the main things I wanted a blog for, but I had planned to post whatever I do, which I haven’t really been successful with. I will try to post more casual photos, doodles and other things! :)

Anyway, this panorama is from a crossing where I stood waiting to get picked up. I just took the shots by free hand (though manual settings), panning across the sky with the setting sun. It looked gorgeous IRL, and a bit of it is captured in the digital format! Original image size is 7570×2100 pixels generated by four shots, resized here to be web friendly, as with all my other pictures. I have added a higher-res clicky-linky below the image though. I have swapped out the Lightbox plugin for Shutter Reloaded, a much quicker and slicker solution. Currently it doesn’t display captions from the image title, but the link title, which is something WP 2.5.* doesn’t add, but WP 2.3.* did.

A while ago the weather was a bit funky. Small areas of raining clouds moved over the town with intensive beams of sunlight in between, and while I was visiting my parents I took a few pictures of the flowers on the lawn. Even if they’re snapped with a very cheap Canon Ixus 75 compact camera I’m quite happy with how well the images ended up, to me anyway, as a casual hobby photographer.