I’m pleased to announce that I have been able to resume my affiliate relationship with B&H after a short “intermission” for the past few months caused by some changes to California tax laws.

Affiliate relationships benefit the vendors and those of use who operate blogs. I only accept affiliation with companies that I would deal with or actually do deal with myself, and B&H is definitely on that list for me. When you make a B&H purchase through a link on my blog, while the purchase price is the same for you, a small percentage of each sale is returned to me for the referral.*

I continue to have an affiliate relationship with Think Tank Photo, the manufacturer of innovative and high quality camera bags and related products. Their Airport Acceleration bag is my primary tool for carrying my equipment.

Thanks,

Dan

* In case you wondered how much income the ads produce, here is my full disclosure: I generally earn less than the costs of running and hosting the site. The ad income helps me  reduce these costs – and for that I’m grateful! :-)

… from eight days in the Yosemite back-country, doing photography with a great group of five like-minded friends. I’m currently transferring nearly 800 images from cards to my computer so that post-processing can commence!

… you need to know that this creates problems with the display of images I post, and I am going to stop using that method to post news of updates to my photography blog. There are some formatting issues with Networked Blogs re-posts that I cannot easily resolve, and because they involve photographs – the main content of this blog! – that turns out to be a deal-stopper. I think that the NetworkedBlogs service is a great idea and I understand that it is working well for many people… just not for me.

If you want to ensure that you see news of the daily updates at this blog, and you have been using NetworkedBlogs to handle that, I hope that you’ll stick with me! There are a number of alternate ways to get my daily (and sometimes more than daily) photographs and other commentary:

• Go to my Facebook Photography Page at http://www.facebook.com/gdanmitchellphotography and “like” the page to ensure that you see updates.
• Follow me on Twitter, where I virtually always post a quick link to new material at this blog.
• Check out Google+. I have been posting expanded links back to the blog at Google+ that I think you might like. (I have some additional invites to G+ if you need one – let me know.)
• Use a feed reader like Google Reader to subscribe to this blog.
• Visit this blog directly.

I wrote yesterday about a couple of technical issues that arose when I switched to this new theme a few weeks ago. I’m certain that I have now solved the problem that left photographs out of search results when using the search box on this site. I’m still getting some reports from people who don’t see the photographs in the daily posts of new images. (They may see the affiliate link image.)

I’m still working to get to the bottom of this. It seems like those who encounter this problem may be seeing the so-called “summary” of the posts rather than the full post. This perplexes me since I just double-checked and I have selected the option to send the full post content in the feed. In addition, I see the full content in my Google Reader versions of the feed.

However… there are two other places where I’m also seeing a version that does not include the images.

• The first is when I check via the RSS feature in my Apple OS X Mail program. (I don’t normally use this, but I used it as a test case earlier today.)
• The second is in the “Networked Blogs” posts that let the blog automatically post into my Facebook account. To be honest, I’ve seen others having problems with the Networked Blogs service, and I’ve been considering eliminating it.