The sidebar was becoming very long on this site. (Did anyone ever actually scroll down far enough to see the blogroll? ;-) To try to simplify things a bit I have moved a lot of the content from the sidebar to a series of tabs across the top of the screen. I hope it works for everyone.
I still have a longer term goal of doing a more significant site update, but that will have to wait until I have a bit more time to work on it.
It has been a fairly productive spring thus far – I’ve photographed in Death Valley, Yosemite, San Francisco, and many of the more local usual locations. At this point I have daily home page photographs “in the queue” out all the way to early July! In more or less chronological order, upcoming photographic subjects will include: many more photographs from my early April visit to Death Valley; several sets of spring seasonal photographs from the central California hills including trees, grassland, and wildflowers; a large collection of color and black and white photographs from two recent trips to Yosemite in spring; and some urban and street photography done in San Francisco, including some “urban landscapes.” Whew.
I also need to catch up on some technical/equipment oriented posts, including some additional information regarding my Canon EF 100-400 f/4-5.6 L IS lens, which I have now used fairly extensively. I also want to post some other general comments about the importance of – or perhaps more accurately, the unfortunate tendency of some to obsess over – small technical differences in equipment performance.
Thank you to those who have written email on a variety of subjects. I try to respond to all of them, but keep in mind that you can also a) join the site (link way down in the right sidebar) and post comments on my posts and/or b) join and participate in the discussion forum.
Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake. Ansel Adams Wilderness, California. July 27, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
I am contemplating a change in the way that photographs are displayed on the home page and in the rss news feed. Instead of displaying the relatively large versions I have been posting here, I will switch to somewhat smaller versions that will expand when you click on them. I think this will have several benefits: those who subscribe to the rss feed will find that my posts take up less space in their feed viewers, there will be less scrolling to do on my home page, and those who want to see full size images will still be able to do so. One small downside will be that rss feed readers will have to click the title link of each post and come to the home page to see the complete display.
I’ve placed an alternate version of today’s image into this post, displayed in the new format.
As always, I welcome your feedback about this or anything else on my web site.
Thanks,
Dan
Just for the heck of it, I have added a discussion forum to the site. Some of you who email me questions or information about photography issues from time to time might want to wander over there, sign up, and post something. :-)
In addition to the requisite forums on equipment, technique, locations, and so forth I have included one focusing on photography in the SF Bay Area and another on photographers.
We’ll see where this leads…
Thanks!
Dan
(UPDATE: There was a problem with the registration code generation. I have fixed this, and it should now work correctly. I hope… )