I recently went to New Zealand, one of the coolest things I did while there was go up the Sky Tower in Auckland. At first I thought it was going to be pretty lame, it's just another tall building, but the view up there is amazing. They have glass floors you can walk on, it took a lot of nerve, but eventually I was totally comfortable walking on them, check out the picture below. I took a lot of pictures up there, including nine I stitched into a panorama.

• Panorama @ 8% (77KB 1201x173)
• Panorama @ 33% (723KB 4953x713)
• Panorama @ 100% (4.6MB 15010x2160)*

* Right-click to download. To view the whole panorama at 100% you will need an 88" high res monitor.

I finally finished putting all the pictures from my trip to Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, and New York into web galleries. There are over a thousand pictures, unless you are extremely bored your best bet is to just look at My Favorites, if that is interesting enough check out the Top 200. I didn't delete any pictures, that means if I accidentally hit the shutter button and took a picture of the sidewalk, that picture is somewhere in the galleries. All of the pictures were taken with a Canon S70 at 3072x2304, mostly Raw, if for some reason you would like a high res version of a picture please let me know.

Image Galleries

If you installed Photoshop CS from scratch, not the case with an upgrade, you probably noticed something very disturbing. PSD's don't have thumbnail previews in Windows, not even in Photoshop's Open dialog! It turns out Adobe left out a DLL called psicon.dll do to crashes on some peoples systems. Well I for one find it extremely annoying not to have thumbnails in Windows, fortunately the solution is simple. Download psicon.dll and place it in  C:/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Shell. That's it, they are instantly back.

Thanks to notestips.com and dlldump.com.

Want thumbnails of Canon Raw files? Head here.

Here's a picture of a subway station at rush hour:

Here are pictures of the Gates in Central Park: