Brian Watson Photography
7 January 2012
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Updated "About" page with recent books in which my motor racing photos
appear, and a site where my motor racing movies are featured. Expanded details of my computer-related
activity in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
21 December 2011
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Changes to the slide show on the Home page, and minor cosmetic changes to menus throughout.
19 November 2011
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Thanks to a clean window on a Virgin Atlantic flight and some nice light, here's an unusual thing,
a nice picture taken from a commercial aircraft showing
high-rise buildings on Hong Kong island during an evening approach.
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There are more high-rise buildings (difficult to avoid in Hong Kong) in a panorama made from six exposures showing
Hong Kong Harbour and Kowloon.
6 October 2011
4 October 2011
3 October 2011
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Pictures in their own page (which auto-scale according to their window size) are now limited to a
height of 600 pixels, to avoid image degradation by being enlarged too far in large windows.
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Modern browsers (which understand these things) should now put a tasteful shadow around images.
18 September 2011
17 September 2011
13 September 2011
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Added a highly detailed view of Newcastle upon Tyne
from the Keep, to the Zoomable Gallery, made from sixty-eight
merged photographs in four rows:
To illustrate the detail in this picture, here is part of the Cathedral's Clock:
4 September 2011
2 September 2011
31 August 2011
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Added a photograph of a young Fly Agaric from the gardens of Cragside, Northumberland:
30 August 2011
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Two movies which worked without any problem on YouTube, started displaying errors (thank you CT!)
and have been updated: the three short movies of the 1971 South African Grand Prix have been
combined into one longer version, now professionally
digitised and much better quality. The slow-motion sequences from this have been extracted into
a spectacular movie of their own.
25 August 2011
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Several short clips from my movies
here,
here, and
here, of the 1972 South African Grand Prix, and the
1972 Monaco Grand Prix practice
were included (without any attribution of the author!) in the BBC film "Grand Prix: the Killer Years"
broadcast in August.
25 August 2011
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This photograph reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition:
16 August 2011
12 August 2011
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Updated the slide show with some new pictures.
22 July 2011
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Panoramas now show a larger version (where there is one) much faster than before because it,
and the next/previous images are pre-loaded in the background.
21 July 2011
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Thumbnails on Gallery pages now have (Mac and Windows) tooltips.
5 June 2011
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Finished implementing the new menu system (as above) throughout.
1 June 2011
24 April 2011
14 April 2011
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Updated some details on the Techniques page about making and
viewing QTVR panoramas.
12 April 2011
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The iPod/iPad/iPhone QTVR panoramas Gallery is now more iPod/iPad/iPhone-friendly.
Users of iDevices are automatically redirected to it from the main QTVR Gallery.
7 April 2011
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iPod/iPad/iPhone versions of QTVR panoramas now have a descriptive title in the middle/top of the
screen (as well as if you press the "i" button) to maintain consistency with other pages.
31 March 2011
31 March 2011
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Added a second zoomable picture of ruins in Angkor Wat.
28 March 2011
14 March 2011
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As with the other QTVRs in the (non-iPod/iPad/iPhone) Gallery made with krpano, the contextual menu
(hold down the right button) give access to interesting projections, including a "Little Planet" view.
12 March 2011
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iPhone/iPad/iPod users can now view QTVR panoramas by using the link to iDevice-friendly
QTVRs in their own QTVR Gallery (which doesn't rely on either
QuickTime or Flash to display 360 degree panoramas) on the Home page.
This avoids the potentially confusing effects that redirection can have on how a browser's Back
button functions.
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These panoramas can also be viewed using Safari (so far the only browser that uses html5) on a Mac
or a PC. Safari does not yet permit TRUE FULL-SCREEN viewing but Atomic Web, a new iDevice browser,
does.
1 March 2011
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The remaining QTVRs from the QTVR Gallery have been
converted to be viewable on an iPod/iPad/iPhone. Selecting the QTVR Gallery from the
menu automatically redirects users of iDevices to the 'iQTVR Gallery' displaying the same
thumbnails, but permitting the display of the full-screen movies by using html5 instead of Flash.
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Version 3 of Pano2VR version 3
makes the generation of the html5 easy It took a while (sorry for the delay) to find
this way of displaying QTVRs.
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If you like to see QTVRs in true full-screen as they were designed to be seen, abandon Safari
on your iDevice, and use the
Atomic Web
browser instead: a three-finger tap gives you really full screen browsing without distractions,
and you can even have (amongst many other things) tabbed browsing, which Safari should have had in
the first place.
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I have no connection with either of these two products, other than as a very satisfied paid
customer.
23 February 2011
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Users of iPhones, iPads, and iPods are now automatically detected and redirected from the
QTVR Gallery to a QTVR Gallery which does not rely on Flash to
display 360 degree panoramas.
5 February 2011
10 January 2011
