I’ve shared a post or two over the past couple of days about some site issues that I’ve been dealing with. For example, earlier I posted about the disappearance of images from the RSS feed – unfortunate, but it has to happen for a while until I work out some server load issues.
I’ve made a few other changes today. Some of them are “under the hood” and are not directly visible -some caching features may speed up the site a bit, for example. Others are visible – for example, I have removed the “tab bar” from the top of the page and replaced it with simple links in the sidebar. The gallery has also been changed a bit, mostly by decreasing the size of thumbnails and the number of images that appear on each page. And there are more to come: soon the full-size versions of posted photographs will be reduced slightly and the fancy script that opens them on top of the page may go away.
Thanks for your understanding as I make these changes.
Having returned from my nine-day Sierra Nevada pack trip last week, I’m up to my eyeballs in photographs to review and work on. I’ve now picked off all the low hanging fruit (the photographs that seem to have immediate, obvious potential) and I’m now engaged in the more laborious task of going back through all of the images again and looking more closely at photographs that seem to have potential but which will take more thought and work.
I’ve posted a few of the backpack photographs already, and more should begin showing up here near the end of August.
A bit later I will post another product review. I’ve had the chance to use the Lowepro Nova 200 AW bag a few times this summer, and I’m anxious to use it a few more times so that I can post my report here. (This bag is designed more along the lines of a traditional camera bag, so it wasn’t part of my arsenal on the recent pack trip.)
I’ve been in California’s Sierra Nevada for about a week and a half, most of that time on the west-to-east backpack traverse of the range via the High Sierra Trail of Sequoia National Park – this trail starts at Crescent Meadow on the west side and eventually crosses over Mount Whitney to end at Whitney Portal on the east side.
Yes, there will be photographs. Soon.
Apparently my “virtual self” checked out last Saturday or so when this site went down. Why does it alway seem to happen when I’m away!? Thank you to those who sent email to let me know about this, and an apology to others who may have been unable to access the site – especially to any of those I met on the pack trip.
I’m hopeful that things will operate more reliably now, though it also appears that a few glitches may remain. (And thank you to the tech support at siteground.com for working quickly to get things back up and running after I contacted them.)
I’ll be unusually busy – in a good way – during the next week plus a few days. So don’t be surprised if I don’t respond to emails right away. Please accept my advance apology, and be assured that I will get back to you eventually.
