notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

“Picture of the decade - Dalek hiding ready to attack the Queen on visit to BBC studios.” (via, via)

Photograph: Getty Images (photographer uncredited).

ISS over SF. A Space Station in my Backyard at Burrito Justice.

Dr Who and friends by Legoagogo on Flickr.

Eleven, companions, and Tardis, built by Mark. Nicely done. (Less than a week until the new series.)

joshuanguyen:

Henri Cartier Bresson, early works, currently at the SF MOMA.

I need to go to this. Mind you, my first thought when I saw this was of André Rabelo’s experiment a few years back, where he posted this photo, without attribution, to the Delete Me group, where it was unceremoniously declared to be rubbish. Ah, good times.

Graham Turner’s photo of Aldwych underground station, which opened specially last weekend to commemmorate the seventieth anniversary of the Blitz. From the Guardian’s Eyewitness section.

I’ve been using Autostitch iPhone a lot this summer. It makes it easy to combine shots and so makes wide-angle panoramic photos a possibility, despite the fixed field of view of the phone’s camera. (You can see an cropped example, of Tromsø from the Hurtigruten coastal steamer, on Flickr. Above is the raw image that the phone produced.)

However, not all of my photos are with the iPhone, and so I need a desktop equivalent too. So I downloaded four Mac panorama stitchers and ran some photos I had previously stitched on the phone together.

Annoyingly, despite all costing at least ten times as much, they (with one exception) all performed far worse. Calico Panorama at least managed to get everything in the right place, and smoothed out the variations in exposure (which are unavoidable without manual controls). AutoPano Pro was also competent, but that UI is eyebleedingly awful. PTgui also did fairly well, but DoubleTake was clearly completely confused.

I also tried PhotoStitch, which was bundled with the Canon PowerShot S90 I recently bought. It needed to be told what the alignment was, and crashed after producing a version that was worse even than DoubleTake’s attempt. Poor show.

I suspect I’ll try a few more sets of images in Calico before deciding whether or not to stump up the cash, but there seems to be a wider lesson here. A piece of $2 software with barely any UI feels more able to do its job than a variety of desktop applications costing anywhere from $20 to $80, and it’s making me consider rethinking my workflow just to take advantage of it.

A London cycle hire bike waiting for the start of Critical Mass.

ferry “Svanøy” on Sognefjord, by Margaret.

I saw the same ferry when I was on Sognefjord, but I didn’t have the dramatic crepuscular rays to go with it. Lovely shot.

Writter (by russelldavies)

“ROMAN LONDON”, by helen.2006 (on Flickr).