Welcome

Welcome to Pond's Place, which offers:

• Hundreds of images from around the world in the gallery and panorama sections, all in high resolution
• Software for RISC OS, Mac OS, Ruby On Rails and more
• Electronic music
• A chat forum
• Various other odds and ends.

Recent updates

12-Apr-2011: Add Folder Icons 2.0.1 source code

The source code to Add Folder Icons v2.0.1 is finally available, following release of this updated version on the Mac App Store a couple of weeks ago.

04-Mar-2011: Add Folder Icons 2 on the Mac App Store

The brand new release of Add Folder Icons is now available on the Mac App Store for immediate download. Find out more here.

13-Dec-2010: Big gallery and panorama update

I've added pictures from a New Zealand road trip this year and a trip to Aberdeen last year to the galleries and panoramas sections. Every single picture, new or old, is now available for download at full resolution. The wallpaper section is redundant - everything is available from the galleries and panoramas pages.

The large 2010 New Zealand pictures are particularly good thanks to the use of a Sigma DP2s compact camera, which uses a full size Foveon sensor to give exceptional per-pixel sharpness. I was lucky to find an excellent online price for it! It's a quirky camera which can take some really lousy pictures if in a bad mood, but on a good day, it's amazing for such a small device.

All of the Sigma camera images are available in raw X3F format if you want them; e-mail me for details. Pictures from other cameras are shot in JPEG format. Sometimes, the originals are uploaded, else slightly smaller, processed images are available. Although these are still large, you may want the original JPEG in some cases. Again, please feel free to e-mail me if you have any requests.

I had to work around a JAlbum issue to publish these galleries and the tool I created to do this is available, with instructions, from this page.