Twenty Five Years
of Island Images - December 2000 - 2024
    
    
    
    
    
It was only after selecting
and editing these pictures that I realised that I'd already done a '25
Years - December' selection! It was at the end of last year and was
what inspired me to then carry on with the monthly '25 Years' sections
throughout 2025. Anyway, I'd edited the pictures so though I'd use them!
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11/12/25
More adventures with
the 360 camera! Yesterday afternoon after a quick stop in Onchan for my
'flu vaccination, we headed across the island to Peel. It was really
a dull cloudy afternoon, but I took a few pictures around the Fenella Beach
area and from the lower slopes of Peel Hill.
DJI Osmo 360 10/12/25
    
  
After leaving Peel we
headed back inland to St John's, to visit the Tynwald Mills shopping area,
mainly for the brilliant Element Isle jewellery shop where Claire and the
team make some lovely pieces, but also it's new companion right next door,
Sacred Clan. I took some panoramas at Sacred Clan and hope to feature
those tomorrow.
  
9/12/25
Some more playing with
360 degree ground level panoramas yesterday morning. This was the
first time that I'd taken the camera out in direct sunshine, which showed
up some extra problems. The sun angle is very low here at this time
of year, at midday only reaching 13 degrees above the horizon, so with
a 360 degree camera you are always going to be looking directly into the
sun in some part of the picture. The camera seems to expose for the darkest
part of the picture, tending to 'wash out' the brighter parts, even with
-ev input. I'm still very much learning how to use this camera so I hope
you don't mind me sharing some more of the results. Don't forget to click
the images for the interactive ones! I've cloned myself out of some of
the pictures, in others I'm generally out of sight below the camera. In
one I'm a feature!
DJI Osmo 360 8/12/25
    
   
  
8/12/25
Whilst I was at the
House of Manannan on Saturday afternoon playing with 360 panoramas I also
shot a few conventional pictures.
DJI Osmo 360 6/12/25
   
 
7/12/25
I wanted to do some
more testing with the 360 camera yesterday, but managed to miss the approximately
30 minutes of actual sunshine in between rain showers in the morning. After
lunch I headed west to Peel, hoping that the rain would clear by the time
I reached there. It actually got heavier so in a quick change of
plan I decided to visit the amazing House of Manannan and try some interior
360 degree panoramas there. It's quite dark in a lot of areas but
the camera coped really well. After that I managed a few shots in
the town during a short dry spell before the rain started again.
DJI Osmo 360 6/12/25
    
   
   
5/12/25
Some more experimenting
with the new 360 camera yesterday, with some adjustments to the settings
now I'm learning my way around it. First location was St Luke's church,
on the ridge between the east and west Baldwin valleys, specifically to
try shooting the 360 degree panoramas in a higher resolution. I've
cloned me out of the first and last panoramas, but I didn't intrude too
much in the middle one so left myself in there! Unfortunately the
church was locked up, so no interior shots today.
DJI Osmo 360 4/12/25
  
360 degree Panoramas
  
After the St Luke's
pictures, I continued down the hill and stopped for some more test shots
at the Injebreck Waterfall.
   
Crops from 360 degree
panoramas
 
360 degree Panoramas
  
4/12/25
A new camera arrived
at the Island Images studios yesterday! It's from the very innovative
DJI company, the same one that designs and makes the drones I fly.
I already have their Osmo Pocket 3 stabilised camera, but this new one
can shoot 360 degree pictures in one take, and stitch them internally.
It only arrived yesterday lunchtime, but after the usual (for DJI products)
battery charging, registering and firmware updating, I managed a quick
trip out for some test shots, just going down the the old part of Onchan
and St Peter's Church there. More or less just factory default settings
on the camera, with some post editing on the computer. The camera
is equiped with two back to back cameras, both with fixed 9mm (equivalent)
lenses, for a panoramic photo or video, both cameras are used, but you
can select just one if wanted.
DJI Osmo 360 3/12/25
    
  
   
The 360 degree panoramas.
These were shot with the twin cameras, some editing in PtGui or Panit Shop
Pro, but otherwise as stitched by the camera.
   
3/12/25
Yesterday was nice and
sunny and I set out rather late in the morning intending a short walk around
Little Ness on the Marine Drive. However, time and circumstances
were against me and when I found the lifting bridge in Douglas closed for
some work, I decided to divert to somewhere a bit closer and ended up at
Braddan Old Church.
A Christian religious
building has stood here since sometime after the arrival of the religion
on the island in around the 5th Century, but the first record of an actual
church here dates from 1291 when a synod was held here. The church
had various alterations done over the years to accommodate increasing congregations
but in the late 1700s it was decided to replace it with a completely new
building, which was actually completed in 1873 but for some reason not
consecrated until 1876. I had hoped to get some interior photographs
of the old church and its celtic crosses, but as seems usual whenever I
visit, it was locked up.
Panasonic TZ95 2/12/25
    
    
    
I'd long had an idea
about shooting an aerial panorama from the Blackberry Lane area of Onchan,
to include Government House, and yesterday afternoon I actually managed
to get around to it, although time was tight and I ws only airborne around
three quarters of an hour before sunset! I also shot a few single
images.
DJI Air 2S 2/12/25
  
2/12/25
Moonshine and Sunrise
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 &
Panasonic TZ95 2/12/25
  
    
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