photostitch

I've had a Canon Powershot SD550 digital camera for over two years now. It takes 7.1 megapixel photos and so far has been a decent "point and shoot". The feature I dislike most, however, is the flash, which is super intense and washes out just about anything it's pointed at. Without the flash, indoor pictures almost always turn out blurry.

This camera's got a bunch of bells and whistles that I never use. One of these is PhotoStitch. It's a software package designed to combine several overlapping photographs into one large photograph. On Saturday, Kiri , Adalyn and I drove to the top of South Mountain Park. The view was incredible so I thought I'd try out the PhotoStitch feature. The picture quality isn't great and some of the "stitched" areas are pretty obvious, but the overall effect is pretty cool. Check it out below:

pictures

These are a few pictures I have taken. I thought they were pretty cool so I thought I'd share them.

This is an Arizona landscape. I have no idea where I was. We were rappelling and I took the picture from the top of the cliff.

This is actually a hotel lobby in California. I just thought it looked cool.

I took this at the phoenix convention center. The way I see it, the soft shadows create a sort of relaxed calm feeling which contrasts nicely with the busy world outside. If I sound hokey it's because I'm a recovering architecture major.

I took this picture right outside our old apartment. I think it's an oleander plant. All those tiny things are insects! I couldn't believe it. I don't know what they are, but they gave me a great opportunity to play with the macro feature on my camera.

This is a zoomed-in portion of the previous picture.

This picture is hilarious. I took it from my back patio. It looks like a pretty normal picture, but if you look closely, there's a guy doing some serious dumpster-diving. If you still don't see him, here's a blown-up view:

One man's garbage is another man's treasure...