Clear, Sunny & plus +4°C ( 40°F) on the Pacific Coast

With so many reports of Ice Storms, Wind Chill factors, Snow Storms, Power failures in the Eastern Parts of the Country, those of us out West are experiencing normal weather this time of year

    Shelter Island Marina, Richmond, BC                                        5 January 2014

I can't imagine living without power with temperatures at -40°F such as those in Newfoundland right now.   All I can say is that we are fortunate to be here on the left coast on a clear sunny day with water as calm as glass

It's still on the chilly side for us with night time lows of about -3°c and we have to scrape our windshields in the morning but so far we have been on the plus side of freezing during the day.

We come here often and today we were meeting friends for brunch.   It was my plan to take my good camera and play around with my Microsoft ICE pano program 

While waiting for our friends I like to walk around the Marina and snap a few photos

The name of this boat caught my eye.  Just imagine that you are leaving your office and you just tell your staff that you are going to "The Job Site" for the afternoon

I surveyed the scene and decided to snap 16 full resolution images in 3 horizontal rows to produce my composite image  (Nearly 45 Megs)

    Output screen of the MR ICE interface

Notice that I am not so good at doing horizontal rows without a tripod.  Luckily the program has a built-in crop function.   In order to keep the colour balance identical for all these (16) images, I used manual mode so all photos were taken at the same settings, plus you should have enough overlap so the program can stitch them automatically

and here is the result

another regular day on the Wet Coast of British Columbia