Slideshows

This sequence tells the story of William Armstrong and his house, Cragside in Northumberland. It runs for 10 minutes . File size is 65mb. 

A new slideshow and my last for this year.  Photographs taken during the last three months of the year over the last few years.
Res: 1920x1200.

Wishing you and your families Angels, Peace and Tranquility for the holiday season 2015. 

A few hours spent in the town of Orta San Guilio on Lake Orta,  Northern Italy  in September.

Views of the Elan Valley.

An attempt to show the severity of storms at Tynemouth a few weeks ago.

Religion is important in northern Ethiopia.

An impression of life in northern Ethiopia anno 2015.

A photo-presentation that will be an impression of Armenia.

A Story of the Malay population at Cape Town 

A recent visit to Wakehurst Place in Sussex

I was recently asked to judge an AV competition of just one minute duration and was surprised to see 27 entries. I first thought one minute was a little too tight on time, but after trying it, the one thing it does do is focus the mind on the one minute length

In March 2015, I traveled to the Sultanate of Oman, including the wonderful exclave of Musadam. Change of scenery guaranteed!
Oman is surely a place to (re-)experience the "Tales of the Arabian Nights". My travel ended in Dubaï: a sudden leap into the 21st century.
This slideshow is my reaction to this brutal change and a feeling of immoderateness.
Remark: the song is in French, but fortunately "New York USA" and "Dubaï UAE" have the same number of feet 

The St.George Marathon, in St. George, Utah is one of the premier marathons in the USA.  Not the largest in the country, but it draws runners from all over the country, for the privilege of running such a beautiful route.  The event is always over-subscribed as runners of every age and ability rush to be early applicants.  Our daughter Kimberly qualified on this course years ago to be able to run the Boston Marathon.  This year my wife and I were able to go down as spectators.  Kimberly, runs so well, and placed so high, I had to remind myself what an accomplishment it is, for any human, to run 26.2 miles!
In recent years, my most common use of Pictures To Exe, is for these "improved home movies", as I do what ever editing of videos, simply within the PTE program.  Although many of  my PTE presentations end up on Youtube as mp4 files, I still prefer the superior quality of PTE's .exe files.    I welcome all comments!
 

This Slide Show was the subject of a Video Step by step tutorial that was made for Digital Photo Magazine in 2003. The subject was making a slide show with PicturesToExe and it appeared on the magazine cover disk along with this slide show that was the subject of the tutorial.
I have adjusted the format of it a little for PC and Mac, but the slide show remains as was made in 2003. The slide show helped (a little) to raise awareness of  PTE in the UK
For those who like a little nostalgia

Every year since 2010 I've done a show on the Edinburgh Tattoo. This year I thought I'd concentrate on the faces which make up the Fringe and the Tattoo.
The soundtrack is ' Put on a Happy Face ' by Oscar Peterson.

Late June/July 2015 and Norway is just emerging from a long winter with the heaviest snowfalls in decades and an unusually cold Spring. The birch and beech trees are only just coming into new leaf whilst down in the valleys spring flowers bloom and strawberries are being harvested. The high mountain lakes are still concealed beneath a covering of ice and snow whilst much snow still covers the higher ground.

An attempt to make us appreciate what we have. Sometimes we tend not to appreciate what we have and then we stop dreaming.
Show runs for 4 Min 03 sec. Aspect ratio 16:9 in HD.

The Kgalagadi Transfontier Park is a finger of South African desert bordered on the west by Namibia and straddling the border into Botswana on the east.

A short, fun look at multi coloured LED lights

A Photo Journalist look at people in the city

Images from a CIE Scotland and Ireland Tour.

I have had the idea for this slide show for some time, but a recent visit to the UK allowed me to shoot the images. They required Monochrome conversion with strategic colour. They also needed to be aligned just as they would be if shot from a Tripod, but these were not. All hand held, so align techniques were required to make them line up for the audio visual

A MasterClass tutorial is available for those interested HERE

Winner of the 2015 Photographic Society of Queensland Salon of Exellence AV section

Not exactly a unique subject for an audio visual, so I tried to come at this slightly differently with words to match the images shot

Awarded 3rd place in the 2015 Photographic Society of Queenland - Salon of Exellence

The Augrabies Falls are on the Orange River in South Africa. The original Khoikhoi residents named the waterfall Ankoerebis, a "place of big noises".

The gorge at the falls is 240m deep and 18 km long, and is an impressive example of granite erosion.