International Garden Photographer of the Year

A Photograph of Hampton Court succeeds in coming second place in the Garden Views category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year.

Needless to say, I was mightily chuffed :)

Link here: http://www.igpoty.com/competition02/winners_GardenViews_Fin6.asp?parent=winners

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Hampton Court Palace meets Glastonbury

Well, Rick Wakeman to be exact. He will be performing his album The Six Wives of Henry VIII for the first time in its entirety on the 1st and 2nd May and this is the stage that's been put up for the show. Rock on.



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Kensington Palace - 360 Degree Interior Panoramas

The finished set of 360 degree fisheye style panoramas of selected interiors at Kensington Palace. Technically known as an equirectangular projections, these were made from about 36 separate images stitched together and rendered into a spherical image.
There are many problems associated with recording wall paintings and interiors one of which is the difficulty arising from trying to capture curved surfaces and represent them accurately in a 2D image. Similar to trying to draw a map of the world without distortion at the poles. We're hoping that by using panoramic projections we don't just get one image which captures the curved surface in one, which would hugely assist the conservation process, but a useful by product is having the ability to produce interactive 360 degree images too.

The Cupola Room	The Duchess of Kent's Dressing Room
The Privy Chamber	The Presence Chamber
The Queen's Dining Room	The Queen's Closet

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Kensington Palace Interiors

The final set of partial panoramics featuring some select interiors at Kensington Palace.

The Cupola Room	The King's Stairs
The King's Stairs	Queen Victoria's Bedroom
Queen Mary's Bedchamber	The Privy Chamber

The Queen's Stairs

Using a specially designed (home made) panoramic head, approx 15 photos were taken for each image and then merged together using panoramic software. It was exciting to use this technique for the first time in some very visually interesting and detailed rooms. Lots of early mornings and carting all the gear around but it was worth it!

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A sea of blue at Kew

This was a must take photo, the blue of the flowers matched the sky exactly.

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Kew Palace & Queen Charlottes Cottage

Kew gardens are fantastic on a sunny day and this happened to be one of them. Here are a couple of photos of the Palace building itself and Queen Charlottes Cottage which is tucked away in 300 year old woodland at the bottom of the gardens.


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The Banqueting House, Whitehall

A photographic visit to the last surviving part of the Palace of Westminster. Upon walking into the main hall visitors discover the impressive Rubens ceiling painted in 1635 which is a dizzying 17 meters above floor level.


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