first panoramic digital picture

It only took me one hour to download, install and troubleshoot the program to stitch panoramic pictures in ubuntu linux, then 10 min to use it. So here's my first one:



The pictures were taken last week when i was leading a gold Duke of Edinburgh practice expedition in the lake District.

The software used are panorama, huggin and gimp. A good tutorial can be found here

grimpe en cornouailles

Je suis en retard pour mes photos. Pendant notre semaine de vacance en Cornouailles, Louise et moi avont fait un peu d'escalade. Sur la falaise de Bosigran:





Comme ca s'est bien passe, j'ai emene Louise a la falaise de Chair Ladder. Il faut faire un rappel pour descendre au niveau de la mer. Sauf a maree haute!





On a commence par une grande classique: Terrier's tooth. La on voit une cordee dans la longueur finale:



Tres belle voie. On est redescendu pour aller a l'autre extremite.





On s'est lance dans pendulum chimney, en pensant qu'il n'y avait pas de mouettes. Erreur:





Pour eviter les nids, j'ai du faire une variation un poil plus dure que prevu. Ca c'est bien passe, mais les nids de mouettes, c'est pas tres propre. Voila pourquoi:

Tour Ciel

Been very busy lately, some good news: been offered a PGCE in business studies and ICT.

For some reasons i can't upload my video of ski mountaineering on blogger. If you want to have a look at it on youtube, click here

Louise's university friend got married

This weekend Louise took me to one of her friend's wedding. We had a really good time, lunch with Dan and Amanda, then the ceremony, drinks, a very nice dinner, good speaches and then the dance. I only took pictures in the evening.

Here are Dan and Amanda looking good:



The same enjoying the music:



Louise enjoying the evening:



Louise talking to the groom, Simon:



And the bride, Alison, talking and dancing with Simon:



They treated us to a night time balloon launch:



Congratulations Alison and Simon!

I've fixed my JVC GR-D70E camcorder

The poor thing died the first time i powered it up after recharging the battery on my return from Val d'Annivier. I googled, found a forum, identified the fault, fixed it. It's now working again!

The main fuse blew up. It's a 2A, 32V fuse soldered on the main board. Here's a picture:



If you can't see much, it's because it's a surface mounted component measuring around 2x1x1 millimeters. I simply soldered it on top of the original one. A broken fuse is an open circuit, and i thought this would be safer than to try to remove the original fuse and possibly damage the board.

I would like to thank John from the pechorin forum, and Colin who let me use his RS account to purchase the replacement fuse.

My post on pechorin is accessible here

froggies

Had fun stalking the wildlife in Louise's pond today:













Pictures are on flickr as well, click here to access the set.

Louise in Paris

We had a lovely crepe bretonne and Louise befriended a "piaf":



Then we went to the Eiffel tower, and queued:



We didn't have time to go to the top,



Louise really liked the domed roof:



Then in the evening, we just relaxed while i tried the new flash



To view all the pictures click here