Archiving Photos
Recently I’ve been uploading to Flickr all my old photos that have been collecting dust on the file server at home. We had a drive failure at home earlier this year and I lost a few recent photos, so the US$25/year to keep archives on Flickr seems like a great deal.
As I was going through the photos of my first week in Hong Kong back in 2004 I found some groups of photos that I’d stitched together using some dodgy photo-stitching software I found on the web. The results weren’t very accurate, but they were certainly interesting. I liked some of them so much that I kept the original bad stitch.
Here’s some examples — first is a properly adjusted stitch done using autostitch, and then the orignal dodgy ones where the buildings look a bit wonky and sometimes have branches like trees:
Looking east from the flyover in front of the Lippo Buildings
Apartment Buildings in Tai Po
That first week in Hong Kong I went up to The Peak with my little Canon A70 and took this group of shots for stitching, and surprisingly they were easily the best photo I ever took from The Peak — the weather was so beautiful and clear, I don’t think I saw it like this again for the whole next year:
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