Over the years, I’ve posted lots of pictures of our back garden and fish pond – but way back in 1998 our garden had no fish pond, just lots of rocks getting in the way of maintaining the grass! So we brought in some friends with a backhoe, and did some serious landscaping!
Back in 1998, I made a VHS-C video of the work, and now I’ve transferred that video to iMac, and tidied up the editing.
So if you’re interested in seeing some “rock work”, here you go …
The Essex river, still frozen
I took pictures this morning of the still ice-covered Essex river, at Farnhams. As well as impressive river view, the pictures compare the camera in my new HTC Inspire 4G phone, with my new Sony A55V DSLR camera – amazing, but the phone does a really good job here …
Essex river pictures by camera phone:
The same view with the Sony gives a wider image, but the lens clearly curves the horizon and the camera white balance is a little off, giving too much purple to the ice:
SONY DSC
I also took a quick video panorama with the phone camera:
Epcot water
A short montage of water videos from yesterdays trip to Epcot – you’ll see the “upside down” waterfall, “jumping” fountains, and a boat trip on World Showcase Lagoon …
M&I / GBMINI 