Slideshows

We had an opportunity to visit Venice for a day while in Italy last year.
It proved to be very overcast and dull except of course when we were taking out leave and then it was glorious sunshine.
I hope you enjoy the images as much as we enjoyed Venice.
The music is Vivaldi. When in Venice I discovered the composer was a priest there and spent most of his life in the city of thought it appropriate.

Snapcam

A show of the preserved (not restored) historic mining town of Bannack in the Western USA.
I wanted to make a slideshow that somehow connected with the people who had lived there 150 years ago.
The template of the album was some years ago supplied by 'trailertrash"

My sons and grandsons decided I was going to see the Belfast Giants Ice Hockey match over Christmas 2014.
This is a sequence of the pictures I took. All shots are from the one position i.e. my seat so the quality of some may suffer from such a high speed sport. Sound was recorded live on the night.

Greetings,
This is a slideshow of my wife and I and a couple friends paragliding (parapente) in Colombia in December. I enjoy creating stories by combining videos with still images. PTE allows this to be easily done. I like the fact that you can extract the audio from the video and place it in the audio track to have complete control over it. Most of the videos and stills were taken with a Nikon D7000 DSLR, 18-200mm lens. A couple of videos clips were taken with a Nikon AW100 pocket camera. The slideshow is posted in MP4 format because the EXE format came out about 3 times larger. So I just got it under the maximum allowable size for the Slideshow club. I hope you enjoy it. Any comments welcomed. Gary

As requested this version is keyboard controlled. Press the Spacebar to pause and press again to continue. I don't normally allow keyboard control because of copyright. But what the heck, these are images of some of the most famous paintings in the world and so not mine, hope you enjoy. They are worth lingering on. I certainly lingered when I saw them for real. Be aware though that some are cropped because of the aspect ratio used.

Burma - 2012

Modest Mussorgsky visited an art exhibition and set to music his interpretation of the pictures he viewed. I'm not that clever so have done it the other way around and set pictures to his music. The music is over 30 minutes long but the show certainly isn't. Took a long time to shoot all the images I have used, but visited some very famous galleries all over europe, during my usual tourist travels. This show is priceless, well the paintings are anyway. Hope you enjoy.

In different Natural Parks of Spain we took pictures of flowers.

Buddhism in Burma (also known as Myanmar) is predominantly of the Theravada tradition, practised by 89% of the country's population. It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion. Monks are venerated members of Burmese society. The monks wear red/maroon coloured robes and the nuns pink coloured robes with a sash over their left shoulder.

In the Burmese Buddhist tradition elderly people are usually taken care of by family, they don’t live in retirement homes like we do in the West. But the residents of the Buddhist Home for Aged People don’t have any family members, so they are considered orphans, needing to be taken care of by the community. There is only one nurse taking care of more than 80 people, so they take care of each other. Beautiful people all. They live on donations from Buddhist people.

During the Christmas and New Year's period Antwerp Zoo arranged what they called "China Light Zoo".
It reminded me of the few times I was in Taiwan during the "Lantern Festival", a light festival taking place every year on the 15th day of the new Chinese Lunar Year.

It is my very first show here on this "Slideshowclub" site, so I hope you enjoy it.

Nestled near the foothills of the magnificent Drakensberg Mountains, is Ashtonvale Guest Farm where I have been going for 36 years.
These pictures were taken on my visit over Christmas 2014

I was given some old postcards of Liverpool& came up with this as a way of displaying them. resolution 1400 x 1050

In 2012 we visited 23 days the whole Cuba by car. This presentation is the result of our social pictures we made during the trip.

A new slideshow comprising images taken during autumn and winter, including a few by my son. Res: 1920x1200.

Images taken on a cruise around Iceland. All taken after 7pm as we sailed away from various ports.

During WW2, Auschwitz concentration camp developed into the largest, built and operated by the Third Reich. With 3 main camps, Auschwitz I,
Auschwitz II - Berkenbau, Auschwitz III - Monowitz and 45 satellite camps.

Berkenbau was purposely built to receive the transportation of thousands of prissoners, men, women and children from across Europe in rail trucks, having travelled for days in most cases, directly into the camp.

On 27th January 2015, International Holocaust Rememberence Day, the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will be commemorated
with a service outside the main gate.

Words alone cannot explain your feelings when visiting Auschwitz and in this audio visual, i have tried to show why we should never forget those who died and suffered.

Please note:- There are short silent periods at the start and end.

Shots are made in the nature area `De Kwade Hoek` on the Island Goeree Overflakkee in the Netherlands.

Every morning feed José the vultures in his backyard.
Far from the area they come to fill their stomachs and fly back from where they came.
Every time a magnificent spectacle.

The final part of our Xmas trip to New York.

We visited in Namibia during our ride, around Palmwag and Opuwo a Himba village.
By coincidence we saw later during our trip, close to the Kunene River, a small settlement where we were invited by a family.

A visit to Stavely nature reserve in Yorkshire

I made this Slideshow some time ago and so far it has only been shown to family.

I hesitated up until now to show it elsewhere because I thought that as it's in the form of a simple Photo Album of our trip to Australia it might have limited appeal to others.

However now I've decided that I might as well show it here for any others to view should they wish to.

If others get some enjoyment from it as did the family then that would be a bonus!

Part 3 of our trip to New York. Inc Ground Zero, Liberty and Downtown.

An impression of a journey to Iceland