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Montreux Panoramas

2008-09-17

In this post I present to you three panoramas of Montreux and surroundings, stitched together from 8-10 photos each – created with Hugin. Quite good-looking results, I think, without much work – I just had to correct very few control points, and in one case (in the 1st picture) I didn’t manage to tell Hugin to properly put together the lake horizon (one photo probably was too slanted), so I had to edit it a bit afterwards. Seems that you have to do some cutting manually to get the proper rectangular result, though (since you never can hold the camera in the exact same height without tripod).

You see all photos (assuming the browsers do it right…) first cramped into the post width, then with a scroll bar.

The first panorama from southeast of Montreux, shortly before reaching Villeneuve, in 2732×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Villeneuve aus

» Single view
» Version with 6830×800 pixels

Second one from the shore at Clarens (the western suburb of Montreux) – Montreux on the left, the Rhône mouth in the center; 2056×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Clarens aus

» Single view
» Version with 5140×800 pixels

Number three, unfortunately with the largest vertical differences, so only a rather narrow stripe1: From Glion station, 300m above the lake – you can see Villeneuve and the Rhône mouth well, and the castle of Chillon on the left edge of the lake just made the photo, too; 3332×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Glion aus

» Single view
» Version with 8330×800 pixels

which can’t really be noticed here, downscaled to 320 and 800 lines ↺

“Goodbye and sorry” ← just a quote, don’t worry!

2008-09-17

Recently in my feed reader1, after about only 30 words of post text (my translation):

[Now only a small appetizer as feed. Bye and sorry to all who like to read the feed!]

Now another feed gone from my reader. Bye from someone who liked to read the feed!

There are only a few blogs who manage to still be subscribed to by me despite of their abbreviated feed… but you, too, are more “endangered” than others.

It certainly happens that I read less of you than if your feed were delivering complete posts, because I don’t click on every post. It’s also a matter of the time it takes, you know. Especially if the short text doesn’t really show what the post is about and what one can expect (depends on its length, of course; one blog, for instance, used to have not even one complete line). Just wanted to mention that…

Or how do you think about shortened feeds?2

Feed icon from the Smashing Magazine

if you don’t know what that is: see Wikipedia ↺
Yes, this is the typical “question at the end of the post asking for comments”. ↺

Move!

2008-09-16

On the Sunday of my Montreux holiday I went to Vevey, the city next to Montreux, because firstly, I expected better weather there, and secondly for the large flea market there (always an invitation to stroll around).

Quite a strong wind was blowing that day – wind and kite surfers probably liked it…

…and the waves could let off some steam, too:

And since these photos can easily be made to match this week’s topic of Projekt 52, “Poem interpretation” – a poem for a photo or a photo for a poem –, I’m using especially the last of the images above for this project, in combination with the poem “An den Mistral” (=”To the Mistral”)1 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (see here in Projekt Gutenberg for its text – in German, of course).

Now let’s continue with the photos. In Vevey, I happened to come accross the final part of the Triathlon de la Riviera:

Participants, if you don’t want to see your photo here, just drop me a line.

And on the way back, there was a jet ski race at Clarens:

even though that’s not a Mistral at Lake Geneva ↺

Where can I get VIP for free?

2008-09-16

Welcome to the latest edition of “replying” to search queries… I am the threat that is so real!

For those who don’t know yet: These search phrases, highlighted in grey, led people here, and I neither shortened nor extended them nor made them up, I just translated the German ones.

where can i get vip for free
Here! All visiters are VIPs here!

beware
Of what?

evil page
Here? No, you’re wrong. Well, unless you are one of those believing in moon calendars, ghosts and similar stuff:

moon calendar tomorrow
Just as nonsensical as today.

indoor mondphasen grow
Mixing languages macht es auch not more sensible.

horoscope 8/8/8 pieces
Yes, tear your stupid horoscope three times into 8 pieces!

newspaper clippings by supernatural
No, newspapers can only be cut by natural persons.

ghosts aliens ufos astronomy links
Don’t exist, don’t exist on earth, are no aliens, and you probably mean astrology?

god tells me how the music should sound but you stand in my way
Maybe it’s not me who’s in the way, but your rational thinking about the (non-)existence of a god – and not only in the way of your music but also your homework(?)1 to find out who this quote is from, huh?

the highest drawn lotto numbers
49. (In 6/49 lotto, of course.)

lotto of swiss wikipedia
I don’t think the Swiss Wikipedia conducts its own lottery.

i can’t believe that we
…what?

does mankind come from another planet
No.

blah
Run out of ideas? Then that’s it for today, bye, cause it’s all about the money

appeared several times with a few variations in a short time ↺

Let there be night!

2008-09-15

Sunsets at a lake have their own magic, that applies to Montreux too, of course…

Ships are still running when it’s getting dark:

The old market hall (Marché couvert) from 1890 – the lighting is probably more modern:

From Friday night after the shows – taken with the small camera, for as I mentioned I didn’t want to carry the large one with me during the concerts, and this was the only night when the lake was quiet enough for larger reflections:

At the end, a few “strange” stripes from Sunday – surely some conspriacy theorists got their own ideas of that – and an almost boring cloudless evening on Monday: