July is National Blog Posting month. Are you participating? If so, here are some tips on how to write your blog posts to get more viewers and readers. Keep it as short as possible – People do not want to read an essay that’s four pages long. Remove any fine details if they don’t add to your story, or any …
This is the third fire I’ve seen in a month’s time. It happened on the trail just outside my house. It was quite a big fire, considering that it engulfed a whole section of the trail. The fire was not easy for firefighters to reach, since their fire trucks couldn’t get through the narrow trail, so they brought in a …
Now that I’ve taken my panorama, I will have to stitch the images together to form one. To do this, I use a program called Hugin (download here). The program is an advanced panorama and image stitcher with a lot of functions. This blog post is not a tutorial on how to stitch panoramas, rather, it is a list of …
A panorama is a series of images stitched together to form a complete image. They can be a single row of images, or multiple rows (an array). Panoramas can be very interesting and look awesome. I’ve taken many of them, and now I will share some secrets with you. To take a panorama, start from the left and take images …
Today, I hiked a short trail called Rattlesnake Ledge. It was a two-mile trail up 1700 feet or so. I went with my youth group and my friends to go hiking there. I had been hiking near that area before, so I knew what to expect. But the trail that I hike before was much more steep and longer, so …