For some time I’ve been planning to create a gallery of my photographs that would be more organized and more easily searchable. Well, I finally have some time to work on this project and it is starting to take shape. Early efforts are now online at https://gdanmitchell.com/gallery/, with more to come during upcoming days and weeks.

Sometime during the next few weeks there will likely be some rather major changes at this web site. I’m going to move to a new hosting service. I may rethink the way I store and present my photographs.

I may split the site into two separate sites – a blog and a gallery. The blog may end up as a blogger site, either the current mirror site or something different – or it may simply move to a WordPress blog at the new host. Some of these options will allow me to keep the blog at the current URL, while others may not.

I am still thinking through the logistics of online storage and presentation of my photographs. Recently I’ve been linking to copies stored at Flickr, and that seems to be working OK. I’ve also experimented with a gallery service through the new hosting company, and that option offers some advantages. Then there are the online photographers’ sites such as smugmug and pbase and the like. Too many choices!

If you follow this blog regularly and don’t want to lose track of it during the transition, I suggest that you also follow the blogger.com version at https://gdanmitchell.com/, subscribe to that site’s RSS feed, and watch here (and there) for announcements of changes.

– Dan

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I am considering displaying the daily photos in somewhat smaller versions, as seen below:

Good thing? Bad thing? Either way is fine?

Thanks,

Dan

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I’m beginning an experiment this week that may provide some benefits for this site and for site visitors. I’m going to try moving new photos to my Flickr account and serving the image content of this site from there.

Besides allowing me to more fully integrate the content of my several web sites (including dan’s outside), I’m hopeful that this may relieve the server performance bottleneck that affects the display of photos on my sites.

Don’t be surprised if there a few rough spots as I try to make this transition.

– Dan

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