12/1/26
After visiting Groudle
Glen on Friday my next stop was to meet up with Georgie for some supermarket
shopping but on the way back home I noticed a lovely sunset sky. We had
a little detour for me to take some pictures by the Steve Hislop memorial
on the headland above Derby Castle. I was a little disappointed that
I didn't dial in enough exposure compensation and some of the sky colours
burned out a bit, but the Osmo doesn't have an AEB or HDR picture mode
so it's always a bit of a compromise.
Ironically I did manage
to recover the sky to a degree using Lightroom on my tablet, which then
refused to transfer the pictures!
DJI Osmo 360 9/1/26
  
11/1/26
On Friday afternoon
I had a fairly brief visit to Groudle Glen with the 360 camera, mainly
to shoot a series of panoramic pictures walking up the glen. I did
a similar visit only a month or so back
in November, but just took conventional pictures then. Apart
from the first two and last panoramas, I've not enabled the 'Auto Rotate'
facility on them so you'll need to move them around yourself! I've
also disabled the 'Gyro' effect on mobile devices for this set of pictures
as a trial. I know that some people find it disturbing when the picture
moves around when you move you phone or tablet, I'd be interested in your
views on this. I also appear in some of the pictures, I'd rather
not but when you are taking a 360 degree 'sphere' picture it's not always
possible to hide! I do clone myself out of some of them but only
when it's relatively easy to do so.
DJI Osmo 360 9/1/26
    
    
10/1/26
For my third and final
location in Peel on Wednesday, I drove down and parked in the Fenella Beach
car park and took some more pictures in that area.
DJI Osmo 360 7/1/26
   
 
9/1/26
After my visit to St
German's Cathedral in Peel on Wednesday afternoon I continued on to two
more locations in the town. The next one was to the headlands to
take a look at the old sea water swimming pool remains at Traie Fogog.
These pools were one popular around the island with three other ones located
at Port Erin, Douglas and Ramsey. With the increase in popularity
of heated indoor pools they fell into disuse, although open water sea swimming
is seeing a big resurgence these days.
DJI Osmo 360 7/1/26
   
8/1/26
By yesterday morning
most of the snow had vanished, just leaving the tops of the high ground
covered. In the afternoon I visited Peel with the 360 degree camera,
where there are lots of great locations to choose from, but I decided to
start off at the cathedral, with its little replica keeil in the grounds.
There were over 200 of these keeils recorded on the island, dating back
to early Christian days here, the remains of around 35 can still be found
scattered around.
The tripod head can
be a little intrusive in some of the large thumbnails, I've cloned it out
in some, but in most of the panoramas it's not generally noticeable.
DJI Osmo 360 7/1/26
The Keeil
 
The Cathedral
  
6/1/25
During Sunday we had
a series of snow showers passing over the island, affecting some areas
more that others. It was quite white outside on Monday morning so
I walked up to the little park at the top of Birch Hill and took some aerial
pictures of the snow around Onchan and Douglas.
DJI Mini 4 Pro
5/1/25
    
   
 
5/1/26
We're in the middle
of a short cold spell on the island, with some heavy snow showers affecting
the island overnight and through yesterday.
Samsung Galaxy S24,
Nikon D7100 & Insta360 Ace Pro 4/1/26
 
4/1/26
Some pictures of yesterday's
full 'Wolf Moon' rising over the sea. We had been on a shopping trip
up to Ramsey and I'd been shooting some panoramas with the 360 degree camera
on the way. After leaving the car park after shopping I'd said to
Georgie 'I wonder when moonrise is?' then we reached the promenade and
there it was!
Panasonic TZ95 3/1/26
    
A series of 360 degree
panoramas shot on the way to Ramsey yesterday afternoon and in the town.
DJI Osmo 360 3/1/26
  
  
 
2/1/26
Happy New Year!
Yesterday was a cold
day with fairly regular heavy wintery showers of hail and rain passing
over the island, but in the afternoon I ventured out for some fresh air
and photography, going to the Marine Drive to get some pictures of
ships sheltering off the east coast of the island, plus some more 360 degree
panoramas.
Panasonic TZ95 1/1/26
   
After taking the ship
pictures I switched over to the 360 degree camera for some Marine Drive
panoramas.
DJI Osmo 360
  
   
Sunset from Little Ness.
Osmo 360 & Panasonic
TZ95
 
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