Canon Photostitch software is good and works pretty well with good quality photos. With a tripod then you’ll probably get an awesome merged result. Sometimes it won’t stitch together photos how I want. So what do I use instead ? … Continue reading Panorama Stitching Software – Alternatives To Canon Photostitch
Remember the coachman’s cafe ? Well there’s a garden centre that sells the most beautiful flowers, right next door. This is their tree. Funny how life … Continue reading Tree Hand Holding Couple
I’ve been working on my revamped commercial website DonCharisma.com. We needed some icons for the animated “buttons” on the homepage: One for the building websites page, one for the SEO page and one for “contact us” page. So I came … Continue reading Web/Graphic Design – Icon Preview, DonCharisma.com
A new blogger friend CeeLee brought this poem to my attention, thanks CeeLee. I’d say it mirrors a lot of the principles that guide me. Not exactly, but it’s pretty close. A very powerful poem for any day of the … Continue reading Desiderata – A Poem About Charisma
I’ve been lucky with the cloud cover the past couple of days. The clouds really do highlight a sunset and make it into something rather special … Continue reading Today’s Huge Sky Ocean Sunset Panorama
I like to look myself up on Google, the WordPress reader, Yahoo and a few other places. I would call it vanity, if I thought it was, but it’s not, it’s work for me. Monitoring how I’m doing let’s me … Continue reading SEO Tip – Images And Photos In The WordPress Reader
Here’s the Khao Chee Jan Big Buddha from further away 🙂 It’s been stitched with Photoshop – 6 landscape photos … I’ve left as is straight … Continue reading Big Buddha II Pano Further Away – Khao Chee Jan
Try saying that after a few beers ! This one taken today/yesterday whichever timezone you live in … It’s 24 photos lovingly stitched together by photoshop … Continue reading Big Sky Ocean Sunset Panorama
I’ve been getting quite of lot of traffic off of this link that was posted on Reddit.com last year :- http://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/1stjpa/doncharismaorg_because_anything_is_possible_with/ Quite funny really that someone would go to the trouble of posting about my blog on Reddit.com, publicly criticising the … Continue reading Crappy Design Of Reddit.com
Here’s the official sign for the Big Buddha. I’ve also done a closeup on the info portion in English, for those that don’t have a magnifying … Continue reading Big Buddha II Info Sign – Khao Chee Jan
I made a visit to a big Buddha that’s carved into a hillside. Apparently the story goes it/(he ?) was carved by the Thai navy with … Continue reading Big Buddha II Panorama
I’ve just finished my first proof for my logo. Not sure if this will be the final exact logo – changes may happen 🙂 (c) Don … Continue reading Logo Preview – DonCharisma.com
I feel like that guy who spins the plates on the end of poles, and then has to keep them going so they don’t smash on … Continue reading Graphic Design Preview – DonCharisma.com
It’s been mad hectic day so didn’t get a chance to post anything, yet. These are columns at the entrance to one of the beachfront hotels. … Continue reading Thai Columns
Nice sunset over calm ocean 🙂 Merged with Microsoft ICE 5×1 portrait photos taken on my iPhone 4s Taken in Thailand (c) Don Charisma 2013 Continue reading Sunset Ocean Panorama
Why is it that we chase new experiences ? To boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before ? Pioneers, explorers and fashionistas, it’s all the same thing, really. The glory of being first, or, well, at least … Continue reading Fashion Addict VS Enjoying The Here And Now
As some of you may have noticed I’ve been reorganising my blog. Overall I’m looking for an easier to navigate more professional look and feel to my blog. I closed comments a while back on my about page as it … Continue reading Comments On Pages Reopened – SEO Refit
Here’s a photo of sky lanterns I snapped during last year’s Loy Catong festival in Thailand 🙂 Taken on my iPhone 4S … Photos (c) Don … Continue reading Sky Lanterns – Loy Catong Festival
Taken today on the beach, I liked this shot the most out of all those ones taken. I’ve stylised it how I want the colours and … Continue reading iArt – Don Charisma Beach Sunset Selfie
Time for zeds, good night Audrey 🙂 … I’ll leave you with this rather nice sunset … It’s 2 photos merged with Photoshop. Taken on my … Continue reading Beach Silhouette Sunset Tomerama
I downloaded some free software to “accelerate downloads” called “Download Accelerate Plus”. It kind of works, but I uninstalled it as it was causing problems on my machine (Control Panel->Uninstall a program). I now mostly do downloads on Firefox because … Continue reading Remove The Speedbit Virus From Windows 7
I walk past this tree everyday. I don’t know why it has the hangy-down-bits, but they add some character … I’ve merged six landscape photos together … Continue reading Tree With Hangy-Down-Bits Towerama
As someone who’s built many websites, I’ve often been called upon to include testimonials. Why ? Well there’s a certain class of customer who will look for testimonials. Testimonials are a way to develop trust with customers, and trust is … Continue reading Testimonials For SEO – Don Charisma’s Guide To SEO
This topic came up in conversation with a friend who I was discussing SEO with. Promoting a website or blog is about many things, it’s a multi-skilled discipline. One of the things another good friend of mine taught me early on … Continue reading A Shit-Hot Photo Library – Don Charisma’s Guide to SEO
I got a few of these shots of guys fishing off of the beach. I’ve brought out the colours just a little bit, for very stunning … Continue reading Beach Fisherman’s Sunset
San Isidro is the patron saint of Madrid. They hold a festival every year in May to honour him. This was actually two photos, which have … Continue reading Street Band, Madrid, San Isidro Festival
I can’t take credit for this one, not my photo ! I was unable to find out the source, so I’ve credited the URL where I … Continue reading Sunset Above The Clouds
Took this off of my balcony recently. It’s just awesome how huge the sky is sometimes and so moody 🙂 It’s 27 photos (landscape) 3 high … Continue reading Ginormous Sky Evening Balcony Panorama
Quite a few moons ago I used to be a DJ. It’s not on my about page, because I wanted to keep it concise. Who knows maybe one day I’ll be a good enough writer to write a book … … Continue reading Why Blog ? DJ Don Charisma – The Powerblogger Analogy
I posted the non-HDR single shot iPhone pano of this one a few weeks ago. Finally got around to merging a HDR pano I’d taken of … Continue reading Stormy Sunset Over Greenwich Pier – HDR
Looking around for how to quickly turn a photo of myself into a cartoon, well, there’s a lot of crap out there and not much that’s “quick”. So I’ve written a short tutorial on how to cartoon yourself in ONE … Continue reading Cartoon Yourself In ONE Minute
This this is uArt … Photoshop fun by Don Charisma … This is my favourite out of the four photos taken. I really love the way she’s … Continue reading uArt – Female Portrait
I had MeArt yesterday …I can’t decide whether I prefer iArt or MeArt … So there’s a poll lower down, let me know what you prefer … Continue reading iArt – Don Charisma Portrait
What a day eh, commercial free-loaders and now this in my inbox from a dirty skanky scammer … hopefully this it for today ! Är så ledsen att jag stör, jag är i Limassol, Cypern just nu och jag felplacerad … Continue reading The “Lady In Distress” Scam
I can’t sadly take any credit for this amazing piece of art. It’s not even my photo ! Never-the-less it’s a lovely piece of work. Amazing … Continue reading Street Art – David Walker
First one, bit of an experiment really 🙂 I’ve just retrieved my photo collection from storage – I did a few photoshoots in 2008/2009 … Loving … Continue reading MeArt – Don Charisma Portrait
Moving objects and panoramic photography, well they don’t mix so well … people, cars, boats, jetskis, even waves make the merging process more “complicated” … Thankfully … Continue reading Jetski Beach Sunset Panorama
Another of those conundrums the Google-fairies must lose sleep trying to provide an answer too. In my opinion, no, not all husbands fart so much ! There are several aspects obviously to farting. There’s the quantity of gas expelled, there’s … Continue reading Do All Husbands Fart So Much ?
This is a really wide angle of the Cutty Sark Clipper ship in Greenwich London … Weather conditions not the greatest for taking a shot, cold, wintry … Continue reading Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London – Streetorama
This is the inside of Churchill place shopping center. Left hand side is Birley’s an overpriced city cafe/deli eatery type of place. Through the glass is … Continue reading Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London – Interiororama
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