A. Aronsson’s WeBOLLog

Two weeks ago we were visiting a couple of friends to test out pistol shooting at a pistol shooting club where they are both members. I set out with two cameras, my Ixus 75, and the borrowed Sanyo Xacti VPC HD1A.

My plan was to film both myself when firing and the target at the same time, I ended up partially successful. It was a bit stressful to set up two cameras while getting information and instructions of how to safely fire a bullet weapon, but I somehow managed.

During the day I tried different levels of zoom which made some material fairly blurry and worthless, but some of it ended up usable. To my slight surprise It was the clips recorded using the digital zoom in addition to the analog that would display enough detail, I guess it is a smart camera that uses those extra pixels in the sensor when zooming digitally.

Below are a few pictures from the event, and the resulting video from all that recording!

All in all a very interesting and teaching experience, thank you Jönköpings PK. I might join a club myself in the future, to work towards marksmanship.

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…

The past weekend was three days long because of a national holiday, so I was out of town from Friday morning until Sunday evening. Good times!

I took a bunch of various pictures even though the weather was mostly gray with spots of rain, but some might be worth posting!

On the Friday I went to a conference called Nyhemsveckan, camping with my parents and my brother in a caravan. The pictures below are from the pine forest we were stationed in.

They’ve had a large tent for the meetings and concerts for ages, but this was supposedly the last time. After this they will build a large conference building instead. For this reason I made sure to take some pictures of the tent, and following is a panorama from one of the ends of the tent, which is where I sat.

The next day, Saturday, we went to a candy factory, which is traditional for us to visit. It was quite crowded, so the queue was stretching to the far end of the outlet area. While standing there I noticed what they had painted on a couple of doors (might have been there since always!), and it was a pair of illusionary corridors! I’ve been planning to make something like this on my apartment door for a while, though… I think it’ll have to be on the inside, as the landlord might not like if I modify the outside of the apartment.

After this me and my brother spent the evening and following day with a few friends living in a nearby city. While there we played some multiplayer Tetris on their projector. When you finish rows you send them to other players so their bottom row gets duplicated, or remove rows, etc, depending on what is shown below your playing area when you do so.

In the two pictures below you can see Player 2, which happens to be me, having a screen full of rows added by other players (or myself, you can do that too), but both times I happened to get a 1×4 bar to drop down the single collumn hole to the bottom!

Next is a picture I took while walking back after eating out, holding the camera on my outstretched arm taking random photos. It is my face that’s closest to the camera. When browsing for pictures to post I just couldn’t drop this one as I really like how the light just barely manages to hit the roofs of the buildings, which I still look like toy houses! :P

In general, a terrific weekend :) As a bonus, I’m adding a boxy sky panorama taken today while I was biking home for lunch!

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.

I’ve dreamt about having a large trampoline since forever. When I was a kid my family had a tiny one, and we bounced quite a lot on it, but again, it was really tiny. I’ve seen these fairly large trampolines on several lawns for many months now, and in my head I subconsciously decided that I would someday get one of my own.

Today I was out shopping with my family, I was helping them pick up a freezer they bought online, and was going to shop around for various other things as well. As I goggled the list of offers at a cheap all around store I saw it. A 2.4m diameter trampoline for 995 SEK. That’s currently $166.5 or £85. (the US dollar is crazy cheap compared to the Swedish Crown right now, and has been for a while…)

Instant buy! I even picked up a bright red dolly to cart around the box with. Actually, I had pre-decided to get a dolly as well, ever since I carried my bike home from the post office, that really hurt my arms! This just ended up being the perfect timing!

Ah, I want to go bounce a bit more right now, thought it’s late! :3 My back will probably be a few decimeters shorter after summer.

This last weekend I was out hiking with the youth from the church. We went deep into the Swedish woods to walk a great (for me!) distance up and down the hilly forest landscape, and to complete tasks and challenges set for us. Below is a select few of the pictures I took, while denting my camera!

It was an exhausting experience as I packed a bit much unnecessary things in my backpack to compensate for me being older than the teenagers and because I was developing a cold, which really set in the second day when my nose started running. But it was a nice time, and I had fun :) Oh, and btw, nature is awesome, even if it’s comfortable in front of the monitor!

Yesterday I noticed something I hadn’t seen there before. In the storage space where various gardening and maintenance tools are located, where I also keep my bike safe from the decaying effects of wind and rain, there was the beginning of a wasp nest. First I thought it was old , broken and dead, but then to my horror I saw living moving icky larva inside!

Today I went there again to take some pictures and video, as I haven’t bumped into an infant nest before. There are ventilation holes above the door which the insects use to access the room. Guessing I’ll need to do something about this before they colonize the entire room. Below are pictures, and a short looping animation.

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.