Testing Seadragon from Microsoft Live Labs

Posted on November 19th, 2009

Thought I would give Seadragon a try. Seadragon is a technology from Microsoft Live Labs that lets you zoom in and pan around images from the Web. Images could have lots of text or just really big photos. This technology could be extremely useful in rendering large images with lots of text. Imagine a single image with the entire text of a book and using Seadragon to read that book.

In testing our Seadragon here, I uploaded a panoramic shot I took while visiting the U.S.S. Hornet in Oakland, CA this summer. This panoramic shot was created from a series of shots using Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Pretty damn cool.

A Trip to Snoqualmie Falls

Posted on April 19th, 2009

I moved to the Seattle area this last December and am continuing to explore the area and “see the sights” so to speak. I’m familiar with what Seattle offers but its the surrounding areas and the non-City stuff that is of interest to me. A few weeks back my girlfriend and I visited Snoqualmie Falls.

I thought I’d share some photos. I took them with my Nikon D40. I think the settings on the camera is possibly a bit off as the images look a little grainy. It was suggested I perhaps turn down the contrast a bit.

By the way – I absolutely love the ability to embed Photo Albums from Windows Live into a blog post via Windows Live Writer.