I have published a couple of galleries of photos taken during last November’s house buying and renovation trip to Provence, France: France November Photos. Many of these photos were originally posted in the Chez Mirabel blog, but they were of pretty low quality since they were processed quickly on a computer with inferior monitor/screen.
“Click/Tap On Image” feature re-enabled
It finally looks like all the major browsers (i.e., Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE) can now correctly handle the ability to top or click on a website image in order to see an underlying alternate presentation (e.g., a panorama or video). So, I have turned it back on. So if an image is captioned with ”Click/Tap on image …”, then click or tap it to see another view. iPhones and iPads still have a small problem with panoramas — they can be scrolled pass their edges.
Here are some panorama links to try:
360 degree morning at Broken Top
360 degree view in Oneonta Gorge in the Columbia Gorge
360 degree view from Gokyo Ry of Mt. Everest Region
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An Adventure in France
Well, it’s been awhile since Martha & I have had a travel adventure that we thought was worth sharing with you, but we’re now in the middle of a doozy – we bought a house in Provence a little over a month ago! But let me back up and start at the beginning …
Last Spring we received an email from a good Portland friend saying that she was in France with a friend and they were looking for a house to buy, renovate, and then fractionalize into 10 ownership shares (five weeks per year usage). They were about to make an offer on a house, but they were having second thoughts about the viability (sanity?) of what they were doing. So they first wanted to gauge the level of interest friends might have in buying shares down the road. Well, we emailed back that it sounded very appealing to us. That was actually a pretty easy “decision” since we knew Dory (& her husband, Steve) so well, having traveled with them in Europe and Asia. In fact, we awoke the next morning with the possibility foremost on our minds; actually we were thinking “why hadn’t we thought of that!” And I went into my “engineer” mode, asking lots of questions and giving feedback. One thing lead to another and we soon found ourselves joining them in the venture. That was last April/May and the last 6 months have been spent on purchase due diligence, setting up the U.S. and French legal framework for the purchase and fractionalization, and herding (I mean working with) all the involved French parties. And that work all culminated at the end of October when we closed on the purchase. We then spent all of November in Provence deciding on the renovations to be done and kicking them off. We hope to finish that work by next Spring or early Summer and then find seven other parties who want to join us in enjoying the fruit of our labor: Chez Mirabel.
I won’t go into any more detail here … you can read more at our burgeoning website, www.chezmirabel.com. And it includes a blog, “Happenings” at http://www.chezmirabel.com/?page_id=Blog, that describes our journey.
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New 2011 Image Galleries
I have published three new 2011 image galleries:
- Olympic Peninsula – images of the Olympics National Park coast & rain forests taken during a Marc Adamus photography workshop this past May;
- Columbia River Gorge – images taken in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge during a Marc Adamus photography workshop this past May;
- Painted Hills – images taken during a one day trip to the Painted Hills in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Bend Nat’l Monument.
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“Click/Tap On Image” feature disabled
I have temporarily (hopefully) disabled the ability to click on a gallery image in order to see an underlying alternate presentation (e.g., a panorama or video). I have found that browsers other than Firefox currently do not behave correctly. For example, Chrome & Safari return back to the very beginning of the gallery, rather than to the clicked-on image. I plan to leave the “click-on image for …” instructions in image captions, hoping that upcoming planned major browser releases will soon fix the problem.
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