One of the main reasons photo’s haven’t been coming quickly from this trip to Destin is pretty simple.

There are a LOT of them. And I’m doing my best to prevent this from completely overloading both the site, AND the viewer. We found out pretty quick that looking at 400 images of the same thing can get pretty boring pretty quick. So, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time sorting through images, and trying to choose the best ones, that represent what was going on the best.

This, simply put, is much harder than actually taking the picture. Sometimes, the best laid plans, or even reasonable plans, simply don’t work out.

I’ve been trying to get a good panorama shot every day of the time we were down there. Most of them, while looking good on the screen at 1% of their actual size, just didn’t work.

This one, from the first full day in Destin, is probably the best one I’m going to get out of this trip. I’m thinking of printing it full size, without the cropping below, and then mounting it on gatorboard. Once that’s done, I’ll go in, and cut the excess out of the paper and backing. It should turn out well.

This is a thumbnail, BTW. Click on it to see the larger image. The Larger image is only 20% of the full size image. That one won’t even fit on a CD.

The good news out of this, is that I’m basically done with doing the looking for perfect Pano’s, and I’ve exported and cleaned the images our Cousin wanted of her and her newborn. So… that means that I’ll be able to finish the sort and classification of the remainder of our pictures and put them online.

I guess we’ll see how friendly bluehost really is when that happens. My previous hosting provider had oversold the server to the point of uselessness.

It was so much easier when I hosted my own stuff, instead of paying someone else to do it.