Mmmm…. potatoes. This perspective makes the garden look very wide.

A not very good picture of two of the four starts we ended up buying. The seed packet costs something like 3 or 5 bucks for a gram of seeds which is three or four dozen seeds at a wild guestimate. The start costs 6 bucks. It really makes the Costanza in me grit his teeth and think about planting the deformed, sickly little starts I grew myself. But in the end, I just want tomatoes.

This gigantic freak is sitting in my tomato dirt.

Correction, he was sitting in my tomato dirt. For what it’s worth I think it might have been a hideous mutant parsnip.

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Fisherman’s Terminal

Here’s a one from our trip to Fiji last February, click through for the hugeness. There’s a good chance your browser will resize it for your window (unless your screen is 7000 pixels wide), on firefox at least you just click again to zoom.

This was taken from atop the ridge that runs from one end of the island we stayed on to the to the other. On one side there was a village, on the other the resort. The picture doesn’t begin to do it justice.

Here’s another I took just yesterday at Crown Point Vista in Oregon

This one is less spectacular to me, in part because that wall shows you just how distorted the end result is. I’m using a (linux) program called hugin to do the image stitching, a process that turns out to involve a hell of a lot of math. I think I’ll probably get better at the stitching as time goes on but most of the lessons learned have to do with taking the actual pictures. It seems to me that the biggest improvement I could have made would have been to have taken a lot more pictures for each portion of the scene. I think it would have eliminated much of the distortion. Next, it would have helped to have gotten a similar exposure and depth of field on each shot.  And please, make sure they’re all in focus dummy.

Just back from Portland and pictures uploaded. Go check them out