Yesterday we attended our 3rd Wedding of the year and in fact it was Harry’s 2nd wedding already.  I thought I would share some of the best photos below.

Yes, thats right Daphne is at it again.  She has hatched more baby budgies, this time there are three that have hatched and survived and appear to be doing well.

Helen was out in the aviary today taking some photographs of the birds and managed to get a hold of one of them.  I am not sure which is which at the moment but we have three names ready and waiting but we just hope that sex of the babies is right for the names.  They are going to be called Roger, Maeve and Albert.  Lets hope we get two boys and a girl.

I think Daphne must be tired out now.  This is three lots of chicks that she has hatched over the summer period and I think that once she has cared for this batch, she will have to be isolated and the other birds just can’t get enough of her.  If we don’t give her a rest I think she will be over exhausted and that could lead to serious health problems.

I will keep you posted as the the progress of batch number three!

For a while now I have kept seeing stunning panoramic photos on the web and wondered how on earth those photos were taken or created.  Well after a little more extensive research today I have found out that they are really simple, thanks to Photoshop CS3.

The image above was created by merging together 8 photographs from the garden.  We have been working in the garden for the last 6 months or so and wanted to find a way in which I could showcase the whole job in one photograph, which is what got me looking at panoramic photography.

The process is simple.  You basically take all your photos, panning around your subject.  It is best to take them in portrait format because your image will end up capturing a lot more of the subject.  You then take your photographs panning around, making sure that you give them plenty of overlap.  The more overlap the easy it is for the software to get a good match.

Upload the photos to your computer and then in Photoshop CS3 you simple select the Automate from the file menu and choose the Photomerge.  Then select all of the photos that you have taken and simply press go.  Photoshop goes to work importing your photos together and produces the finishing touches.  Somethimes to tops and bottoms of the photo are not level as Photoshop has had to move them up and down to get things aligned up correctly so I usualy just crop the photograph down slightly so that the top and bottom edges are straight.

That is all there is to it.  Export your file in a suitable format and size and you have a lovely professional looking Panoramic photograph of whatever you want.

I know that a few of you have been trying to find my wedding photographs on this site.  Well it seems as though something has gone wrong in that the flash player embed that they were in is no longer working.

Therefore here is a section of the photos below as well as a link to the slideshow of all the photos on Flickr.

Flickr Slideshow of all Photos