Pin Your Pics 1.1 – New Version Coming Soon

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Thanks to some very detailed feedback [cheers Nigel :)] a new version of Pin Your Pics will be appearing on the App Store some time soon. One of the primary pieces of feedback that I had was not being able to do anything with non location data images in the CollectionView was counter intuitive. Now, images without GPS data are labelled meaningfully, and link through to a preview. I also noticed that in the original image preview on the Map [where multiple image data is made available] that the control for the ‘popup’ view wasn’t mutually exclusive: if you browsed to another image around the edge of it in the view underneath, and brought up a second preview, you could never dismiss the original image. I’ve eradicated this with a semi opaque surround to the view so it now fills the screen.

Something else unexpectedly came up since the original release, which I discovered when my wife emailed me a picture from her Android phone. Quite an interesting picture of our cat being rescued by the Fire Brigade but that’s one for another time!

This one is a little – well, inelegant. On the iPhone, if you disable location services for the camera, the image’s EXIF contains no reference to GPS at all, so I have a boolean for this which is set on initial parsing. On my wife’s Android phone, the attributes seem to be there regardless, with values being set or null according to preference. I’ve put a fix in for it.

Jedi Cat

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These aren't the whiskers you are looking for

I have absolutely no justification for this picture of Ping – and the internet can survive without yet another cat picture – other than it makes me giggle.

Sandy

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I haven’t been in Sandy in an absolute age. The last couple of times it was very busy, and a smattering of dogs and toddlers isn’t very conducive to bird photography. We had some heavy snow overnight and I thought I’d give it a go. As it was snowing horizontally while I was there it was duly deserted. A couple of new species for me, starting with this fella, which I think is a redpoll:

Redpoll?

For a British bird, it has quite striking colouring. Having grown up in Northern Ireland I am predisposed to expect all wildlife to be brown :). Next up I think is a juvenile goldfinch. Focus is a bit soft but, given the size of the subject matter, this really is on the limit of what my camera and lens can do:

Goldfinch

Siskin

Pheasant

My final offering, a great spotted woodpecker. A *sharp* picture of a woodpecker still eludes me, and this is another one to add to the ‘almost’ collection:

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker

I wonder if the bloke with the 500mm bazooka had better luck.