I was stunned by the robotic technology in use at the neighbouring farm. The cows decide when to be milked! Great for a GCSE case study on agricultural changes:
Changes in dairy farming – new 360 image
3D visualization, Photographs, Teaching resources
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Jun 282009
City-centre regeneration: a 360 image of Princesshay, Exeter.
3D visualization, Photographs, Teaching resources
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Jun 282009
My latest image on 360 cities.net – taken to exemplify a modern, mixed-use redevelopment in a CBD.
Jun 212009
My recent 360 degree panoramic images with some degree of classroom potential have been added to a new page on Juicy Geography. Eventually they’ll be sorted out into categories and suggested teaching ideas added.
It has been incredibly expensive to buy the necessary equipment to make these images. I wonder if the donation button will get any response? It is easy to remove the embed option – which I will if they start appearing on other web sites!
Sidmouth 360 image
3D visualization, Photographs
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Jun 202009
I made this image to encourage students to look for evidence of coastal erosion, and the strategies used at Sidmouth to manage the problem.
Tarbert Harbour 360 panorama
Photographs
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Jun 172009
A panorama of Tarbert Harbour, Argyll and Bute that I’ve added to 360 cities.net, This image is slightly higher resolution than previous ones as I experiment with file sizes etc. It was taken in a rush as the ferry to Islay was leaving 30 minutes later.
It’s been an ambition of mine to create my own immersive VR panoramas ever since I first came across the 360 Cities website. After saving up for a decent camera, lens and the requisite tripod technology, I’m finally up and running. I bulked at the cost of stitiching software though, and while I really liked PTgui and would love a copy of Autodesk Stitcher I can’t afford them. Fortunately, Hugin is free, Open Source and totally brilliant. I also use Cubic Converter to extract cube faces from the equirectangular images in order to clone out the tripod.
There’s so much to learn about this form of photography; it’s not quite as easy as I had imagined. Here’s one of the first images I’ve produced:
The Nave, Wells Cathedral in England
I’m planning to create a series of images specifically for classroom use. These will eventually be available on Juicy Geography. An example is this image of a brown-field site:
Morlands, Glastonbury in England
I notice that if you right click on the image you can choose different projections. This one works quite well as a “little planet”
Brownfield site, Glastonbury as a Little Planet
Please get in touch if you have suggestions for a panorama for the geography classroom. And if you do use one, why not help me to recoup the massive financial investment by donating to the site development of Juicy Geography?
scarecrow weekend
Photographs, Public geographies
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May 042009
I was fascinated by the impact of a few scarecrows on the village of Awliscombe. A strange mix of art and tradition – and an opportunity to tease the local characters.
I doubt that the villagers see themselves as public geographers, but there were plenty of interesting statements. Here’s a video of some of the best creations:
scarecrows from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo.
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