Eurofurence 14: Report

Photo courtesy of arakinuk, which was taken by whitepaw using Arakin's cam
Well I already did detail about my eventful trip in and first day of the con in my previous post. Now to cover the rest of the trip before it all oozes out of my brain forgotten forever :)

( Days 2 - 5 under cut (It's a biggy!) )

Eurofurence was a great con, though I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I did with EF12. EF12 was easier to get to and language didn't seem to be as much of an issue as it was this time round. I think due to the extra travelling, I felt that I really should have known a bit more of the language. Also, it's a minor thing, but I was expecting them to carry the zombie thing they did on the Wednesday on throughout the con like they did with the murder mystery at EF12 but nothing more came of it. The people I did meet were great, and I had fun suiting and stuff. However, I'm currently uncertain if I'll be going to next year's. It's been announced to be in the same place as this year which just seems insane with the numbers of people who clearly want to attend. I may give it a miss and go to another con, or just save the money. I'm gonna have a lot of debt from FC after all...

Again, my photos are available at: http://gallery.slycat.co.uk/v/cons/ef14/

Suhl Panorama

I had a series of photos of the view from the hotel window in Suhl and needed to get them stitched together for a panoramic photo. Took me a while to find a decent program to do it, and automatically and I eventually came across the fantastic Autopano Pro which not only twists and skews the photos to make them blend seamlessly, it will also correct the colour differential between the photos making it a perfect blend.

I've posted the pic it produced on my gallery, but I thought I'd share the result here too:



Click the pic for the full res thing (it's 2.4mb). My camera's not the best in the world and it also has a pair of blemishes I think on the lense or the sensor itself. Would be nice to see what's possible with photos taken with a decent camera :)

New art

I'm not normally one for art, however I always try to get a new badge done whenever I visit a convention. At EF14, I had jdpuppy draw me one. Here's a scan of it: