photographs

Over the weekend I went through the photographs I took in Japan and put most of them online in the Gallery section. You can check them out here:

Kumamoto, Japan - March/April 2006 Gallery

It was a sunny weekend with lots of activities on so I took the chance to test out my new Canon Powershot S2 IS digital camera. The camera's 12x optical zoom is a massive improvement over what I have been used to in the more compact digital cameras I have used. The camera is also very fast at focusing and shooting images and the end results are pretty impressive (as you can see from the bottom set of photographs).

In one afternoon we walked along the waterfront to checkout a dance festival, the Volvo Ocean Race and then headed up to the Westpac Stadium to watch New Zealand play the West Indies in a one-day cricket match. All in all a very good afternoon and evening (especially as New Zealand won the match).

Emma and I have returned to London after a four day visit to Paris. I have not had time to write anything yet but in the meantime I have posted a few of the photographs we took whilst touring the famous (and not so famous) sites.

Photographs from our trip to Paris...

I have now gone through all the photographs I took whilst on the tour of Germany, Austria and Czech Republic. They are available for viewing if you are interested. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger image if you want. The photos are arranged in the order that we did things.

Germany, Austria and Czech Republic Photographs...

Still pictures are good but sometimes its hard to convey the actual feeling of a place. During our trip to Bath I made a few really quick (20 second) movies of a few places that are really useful in conveying a sense of what it was like. The three movies are of passing a nuclear power plant in the train, Bath's Abby and a very cold afternoon at Stonehenge. Click on the images below to play the movie.