shigeru ban in sri lanka (cSLa #26)

Well, there IS a web site for Shigeru Ban's work in Kirinda Sri Lanka, though I managed find it only now.

Photo 1 via www.an-architecture.com
Other photos via www.collierskirinda.com

Two wins for Design Group Five at Asia Pacific Property Awards

The results of the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2010 in association with Bloomberg Television have been announced and The Design Group Five International (Pvt) Ltd. (DG5I), one of Sri Lanka's leading architectural practices, is amongst the few multiple winners at the blue-chip awards ceremony. Read on....
via www.dailymirror.lk 

museyon; a curated guide to your obsessions

Museyon. A curated guide to your obsessions. Are you a film (or for that matter music or art) buff and would like to visit one of  the locations from Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' on your next trip the states. Then here is your web site

tacking point, NSW, aussie

While skimming through arkitecton's blog on panoramas, i suddenly remembered this.

Photography & montage: truly yours

Foot note: I used a freeware program called panorama factory to create this montage. I now use 'Canon Photostich' (which i dont think is freeware) which is more user friendly (read: better suited for lazyboys like me) but provide less overall control compared to Panorama Factory. actually both these programs can stitch a grid (both up & down as well as sideways in one composite) as well as a sequential panorama.

The secret to create better panoramas lies in how you take your photos as much as how you montage them. Here are two excellent sites (site1, site 2) if you are interested. First one is for a DIY tripod pano head. For those who are not, you simply have to rotate the camera around the lens aperture plane (sometimes called the nodal point)  and not around the focal place (sensor / film plane) and definitely not around the central axis of your body, to avoid the phenomenon called parallax error.

And BTW Tacking Point in NSW is right here!

house at kiribathgoda (cSLa #25)

Architect: Palinda Kannagara
Photography: Waruna Gomis (and his hefty D3)