Any IPTC/SEO/Photoshelter experts out there?
Confusion reigns… Over the last week or so I have made a start on my Photoshelter archive, something I really should have done a long time ago – my backlog of images is really quite frightening. However I have hit a bit of a stumbling block. In terms of SEO, and within PS itself, how [...]
News and plans…
Its been a little quiet here over the last few weeks – too much work to do and not enough time… I have been doing a lot of planning for future trips, working on some publications and rethinking this site and how I can earn some money from my image collection. So, in no particular [...]
IPhone dive guide app
What features would you like to see in a dive guide app for the iPhone? Is there anything you would consider essential? Or a waste of space? What features do you think would help make a slick design? I am in the midst of writing and designing a series of apps for the iPhone and [...]
How much is a photo worth?
I recently had a request for some images from a web-designer doing a site for a new diving resort. The initial email asked for rates and I quoted what I thought was a very reasonable price – $350 for 10 low-res images. He replied with a ‘No thanks, way too expensive’, so I asked him [...]
Weekend inspiration…
I have been rather busy the last week or so, helping my parents pack and prepare for a move out of the UK, and my sister and her family move into to my parents’ old house. Just a little chaotic… Luckily, I’ve also managed to get some work here amongst the gloom-and-doom, sufficient to keep [...]
Website redesign – Pt. 2…
As you may have noticed, many of the galleries and images are not working as they should be – I seem to be having some java script problems with my plugins and the new WP 2.8. Galleries will be rebuilt and updated as soon as I have the time, and actually work out what the [...]
Apple Mac R.I.P…
A sad, sad day. Farewell to an Apple IIe – one of the originals, with 48k memory and twin floppy drives – a Macintosh LC and a Powerbook 100. Mr Jobs, if you are reading this, we have been faithful Apple supporters for many years now – could you send me a iPhone 3G S [...]
Shark Trust – Sharks in Focus Competition
Just announced, this year’s ‘Sharks in Focus’ Photo Competition, run by the Shark Trust and Diver Magazine. See below from the Shark Trust site. This organisation does a huge amount of work to support shark and ray conservation through research, management and education – join them today! Due to the phenomenal success in 2007; the [...]
Website redesign…
For the last few months now I have been contemplating a complete redesign of my site – move it away from a traditional blog format and towards a magazine-style layout, with the images themselves playing a much greater role. This weekend I bit the bullet and bought a premium wordpress theme – Modularity from Graph [...]
Mindless divers…
Sometimes I wonder why people dive. They are lucky enough to be able to explore the underwater world, and yet feel it necessary to carve their names on a sponge. So if anyone knows divers called Peter, Kamila and Milan that have dived Tulamben recently, let them know that I am on their case!
The website is dead. Long live the website!
I never thought it would happen to me, but at the end of March the company that hosted my previous site went into liquidation – disappeared off the face of the earth is a little more accurate to be honest – and left me with no site and no access to emails using my previous [...]
Something different…
I’m a science geek and proud of it. So today, a poem – ‘Gravity’ by John Frederick Nims. I love the ‘Euclidean whimsies’ and ‘Serene parabolas’ – just like my efforts on the badminton court:-D Mildest of all the powers of earth: no lightnings For her – maniacal in the clouds. No need for Signs [...]
