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Sometimes in life you get opportunities that you just have to take …. and one just came to this old Manchester United supporter … a chance to watch my team play from a corporate box against Arsenal … and I could take my son, Krysh, too!  We only needed a draw to win the Premier League (again) … and a draw is what we got! Like an earlier post, I took lots of photos and patched them together using Microsoft Image Composite Editor.  I love that tool!

Just in case you have never heard of Old Trafford .. it is in Manchester, England … just here:

I last went to Old Trafford over 20 years ago … it didn’t look like this then …  this is the East Stand.

Here is the Deep Zoom version : Old Trafford East Stand

Here is the Deep Zoom version : Old Trafford Pre Kick Off

Here is the Deep Zoom version : During the match

The match was 0-0, but that was enough to be presented with the Barclay’s Premier League title for the 3rd consecutive year … that’s 18 in total!

Thank you to everyone who made it such a great day!

(PS : You missed a great day, Tim)

I went to see the latest version of Visio last week at Microsoft Campus in Redmond, but, as usual, chose to stay in Seattle because it is such a great city.  I love to walk down to Pike Place market in the morning to ponder over which specialist food to select, or to smell the flowers as they are arranged for the day’s pickings.  So, with a piroshky (Russian pastry) and coffee I strolled to the little park at the end to contemplate the day.  The view across Puget Sound is fantastic and I wanted to capture it to share with my friends.  I only have a handy little digital camera, but fortunately, I recently became aware of a handy little application called Microsoft Image Composite Editor (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ ) .  MICE patches your photos together to make a larger panorama, and then you can export it into many different formats.

I have saved four panoramas for viewing using Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2.

Seattle Trip May 2009

I have shared the collection on Live Maps (I think this only works if you are signed in): http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=47.577559~-122.091288&style=r&lvl=11&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&cid=3350D61BC93733A9!1505&encType=1

I have also used the 3D Map Tour feature in Live Maps to create a short movie showing the location of the panorama positions:

Victor Steinbrueck Park

I didn’t know the name of the little park at the end of Pike Place until I looked it up on Live Maps

View the panorama here : http://www.bvisual.net/views/VictorSteinbrueckPark.html

The Moore Hotel

As far as I know, this is the only listed hotel in Seattle.

View the panorama here : http://www.bvisual.net/views/TheMooreHotel.html

Snoqualmie Falls

After visiting two wineries on Saturday, I eventually made it to the waterfall that is 100ft higher than Niagara, and featured in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.

View the panorama here : http://www.bvisual.net/views/TheFalls.html

Yellow Lake, Sammamish

I visited my friend Richard Smith and his lovely family out in Sammamish and went for a walk around their local lake.

View the panorama here : http://www.bvisual.net/views/YellowLake.html