   'Does this tide seem unusually high to
you?'
Well it started out beautiful - but it's greying up
fast - but stop press - I just had a look at the weather site and the prediction
is for cloudy - but no rain - so let's see if they 'guessed right.
The runabout got finished the other day - and I
mixed the last of the 2 colours together - to make a compromise - and although
it's been pointed out that it's 'only bottom paint' - the fact is that it's
painted flourishingly - in this bold red for about 6" above the water and
therefore makes the runabout distinctively 'white & red' - so you want it to
look OK. But it's ready to be lifted back in with the forklift - any
time this morning.
    As I've mentioned before - there is another
shipyard - just along a bit from us - and it's older and a completely different
sort of set up - (it was not suitable for us because the water in front is not
deep enough) - it uses railway tracks to move the yachts around - and there is a
distinct 'caravan park' like atmosphere to the place - with many long term (up
to 20 years) residents - actually living alongside or in their yachts on
land. Many many boats in an unfinished state - and some I dare
say - that look like they will never see the water.
It's a fascinating scene - and the other day I took
Penny for a walk there again - and we visited and talked with a few of the
oldies. I also took a panorama photo of the main working section of
the yard - where the boats are brought up out of the water and then moved around
on rail platforms and supports.
 This is the series of photos I took - to
again demonstrate to you how easy it is.
I took these vertically which requires holding
the camera even more rigidly.
But it's just a matter of taking overlapping
photos (about a third) and just taking one after the other as you rotate the
camera on the spot. Do not change positions - just pretend like
the camera is on a tripod and spin around - it needs to be a continuous one
after the other.
But it's not the slightest bit
difficult.
The photos are then simply selected in the
Panorama Program - and 2 clicks later
and in just a minute - they are merged into a
magnificent full panorama of the scene.
 This is a smaller version - at only 900wide x
243high.
The original is a whopping 8587 x 2314 pixels (or
21 million - megapixels quality)
and at full resolution is more than 26 normal
computer screens big.
I have uploaded 2 larger images to
thedogpaddler.com you can have a look at.
If you are using
Internet Explorer - the images will be made to fit your screen
in order to view them
at the correct size - just hover your cursor
over the bottom R
bottom corner of the image
and then click on the
 icon that appears:Also if you have a
mouse with a centre scrolling wheel - you can click on that scrolling wheel -
and an arrowed symbol
 will appear on the sceenyou can then - just by moving your mouse about in any direction - (no
buttons) - pan and move around the full image at any speed. Just
click again to end the function.
both of these are still downsized - to allow for
reasonable downloading and viewing.
 And just to finish on something completely
different. Yesterday - when John Meyn was leaving - he noticed some
colourful beetles on a tree near our front gate. I took some macro
shots of them - and although it was quite windy and the branches and leaves were
moving about - out of the dozen shots - these few came out pretty
good. What do you think?
   Now - I'm no insectimollyolligist - so I don't
know what they are.
The generic name of 'stink bugs' was tossed about
- but I'm just calling them
'colourful bugs'.
Please write.
see ya soon
  ----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney Field
To: 1 Rodney Field
Sent: Monday, February 11,
2008 10:16 AM
Subject: Unusual Tide - big
panorama of Next Yard - BUGS galore
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