Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

http://www.climate-uk.com/temp5.htm

Philip

Philip Eden wrote:
Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

If you save them as JPEG images rather than GIF, you will get better
quality photos and they will be smaller!

GIF images are limited to 256 colours and aren't really suited for
photographs.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury, Kent
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/

Don't know about being massive and taking ages to load Philip, am on
8MB broadband and it took about a second to load...?!

Any way, nice photos and interesting to see it from above the mist/fog.

Here in Northallerton there was only about half an hour where the sun
managed to burn its way through and that was about lunch time...

Damn cold all day, don't think it got above freezing again all day just
like yesterday...

Nick
Done a little sort of WX blog at http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/nickw7coc
for the past couple of days with some of my photos and comments - will
be trying to update it as regularly as possible...

Philip Eden wrote:
Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

http://www.climate-uk.com/temp5.htm

Philip

Philip Eden wrote:
Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

http://www.climate-uk.com/temp5.htm

Philip

Ah - they brings back memories of my childhood/formative years! By the looks
of it, my parents in Eaton Bray would have had a dull day....

"Jonathan Stott" wrote :
Philip Eden wrote:
Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

If you save them as JPEG images rather than GIF, you will get better
quality photos and they will be smaller!

GIF images are limited to 256 colours and aren't really suited for
photographs.

Thanks Jonathan. I probably knew that once, but at my age
you forget everything new you learn after a week. I'll right myself
a note.

Philip

They load perfectly quickly but as was pointed out, Jpeg is the better
format for photos. Gifs are usually for things like diagrams when only
limited colours are required.

Having said that, your pictures as gifs have an extraordinary artistic
quality about them. They almost look like old oil paintings where the
surface has cracked or where the artist has used some exotic surface.

So an excellent result - by default !

As for size, limited compression of jpegs can enormously speed download
times for those without fast connections and the loss of quality is
virtually undetectable.

Jack

wrote in message
ups.com...
They load perfectly quickly but as was pointed out, Jpeg is the better
format for photos. Gifs are usually for things like diagrams when only
limited colours are required.

Having said that, your pictures as gifs have an extraordinary artistic
quality about them. They almost look like old oil paintings where the
surface has cracked or where the artist has used some exotic surface.

So an excellent result - by default !

Aw, Jack, you say the nicest things! By the way, and forgive my
higgorance, but could I have seen a butterfly about three weeks
ago, or was I dreaming?

Philip

wrote in message
ps.com...
Don't know about being massive and taking ages to load Philip, am on
8MB broadband and it took about a second to load...?!

Any way, nice photos and interesting to see it from above the mist/fog.

Here in Northallerton there was only about half an hour where the sun
managed to burn its way through and that was about lunch time...

Damn cold all day, don't think it got above freezing again all day just
like yesterday...

Nick
Done a little sort of WX blog at http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/nickw7coc
for the past couple of days with some of my photos and comments - will
be trying to update it as regularly as possible...

Philip Eden wrote:
Pics taken from Bison Hill, Whipsnade, this morning, looking out
across the top of the fog in Aylesbury Vale. Also one image of
the result of the downpour on Nov 25.

BE WARNED! The page is 9.4megabytes; it took 140secs
to load on my machine. No doubt some kind soul will tell me how
much small I should have made each picture.

http://www.climate-uk.com/temp5.htm

Philip


We had a ladybird in our garden 2 weeks ago and I wasn't dreamimg. Don't
know which hang around longest - excuse my ignorance.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Philip Eden wrote:

Aw, Jack, you say the nicest things! By the way, and forgive my
higgorance, but could I have seen a butterfly about three weeks
ago, or was I dreaming?

Philip

You may have been dreaming, but there is still the odd butterfly around
down here, as well as bees. South facing slopes have lots of daisys in
flower after the recent mild weather.
Daffodil picking on Scilly now in full swing, in fact they have been
opening too quickly, and some are being put in cold store to slow them
down.

Min 0.8C last night (coldest night so far) currently (13:30) 9.1C.
Unbroken sunshine all morning, but a little patchy cloud now drifting
towards us from the N now that the wind's backed. If the wind remains
northerly it will significantly milder here tonight.

Graham
Penzance

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:43:38 -0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:


wrote in message
oups.com...
They load perfectly quickly but as was pointed out, Jpeg is the better
format for photos. Gifs are usually for things like diagrams when only
limited colours are required.

Having said that, your pictures as gifs have an extraordinary artistic
quality about them. They almost look like old oil paintings where the
surface has cracked or where the artist has used some exotic surface.

So an excellent result - by default !

Aw, Jack, you say the nicest things! By the way, and forgive my
higgorance, but could I have seen a butterfly about three weeks
ago, or was I dreaming?

I saw a Red Admiral on Saturday afternoon.
NE Hampshire.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/