The painting of the deck has been taking it's toll a bit - the last few days I have been really wrecked after laying all around the edge of the deck all day in the sun - painting all the under coaming areas at the sides before I can roll the flat deck.

I was only saying to Peter the other day - that the one thing I suffer for these days is sitting cross-legged for any length of time - come the end of the day I can hardly move - and this has been the case yesterday and today.   There is no room along the side deck other than to sit x-legged - and I have to lay down for most of the time to paint up underneath the deck edge - and the reflected sun off the paint and deck have given me a really sunburnt face and ears too.

So I haven't felt like doing too much - although last night I did spend time doing new photos.

Then watching the Australia Day    fireworks display    just over the bridge nearby.   That little fireworks gif - is actually just about the size it looked from here too.

The company loaded up the barge here beside me with the fireworks all afternoon - and then Cliff took it around to the other side of the bridge and off it all went at 9 pm - and they were back here about 10.30 and tied up.

 

 

Also - yesterday I took a bunch of photos to experiment with making some 3D animated Gifs.

I came across this site - and you know me - always looking for new graphics.

it was only the first time I'd tried it and I think with a bit of refining it could be quite effective.

 
Here are the ones I took and made straight way.
 
 
 
 
 
 
It almost looks like some kind of time lapse film - but it's only 2 photos.
 
You can plainly see the 3D effect - and it's a fascinating optical illusion - using just 2 photos of the same scene taking from slightly (only inches) different positions - then resized - converted to gif format - then combined as an animated gif file.   If I made them smaller again - the file sizes would naturally reduce too - but I've made them a bit larger just to see - however with these - I have reduced the quality to only 32 colours.
 
Just so you can compare - here are two that came from the site where the method was originated - and he's won awards for them.   And they're not that much different - really.
 
    
 
Although they're both quite amazing - and I notice he's running them at a slightly slower rate too.

I'm going to stop now - and I'll send some more new photos in an email tomorrow.

Goodnight

 

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney Field
To: 1 Rodney Field
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: 'All is Well' - well mostly - Fireworks -3D photos

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