Here are some interesting articles recently.
Photos of people trying their best to get a good photo. Some crazy lenses out there as well.
Using quick flashes to capture bullets in movement.
This is a video that shows variety of Firefox tips that I never knew.
Tulips were to be see everywhere in Montreal during the spring. They are outside civic buildings, in people flower beds, and these were planted in the meridian of a major street. I liked their colours and wanted to pick out one of them and snap a photo. Had to get nice and low for this photo. My aperture was the lowest it could go and I was zoomed in at about 200mm on my lens to add to the depth of field feeling.
I am still working away at my blog redesign, but I am liking the new look. I was thinking of giving you all a sneak preview today, but changed my mind. I am going to throw a question out there though.
What features am I lacking on this blog and do you have any ideas on what I should do?
I have altered colors, moved the side menu, restructured the menu, cleaned up the layout, and added article totals to the categories. I am also adding the top commenter (with linkback) section, recent comments section, and recent articles section.
I am looking at some different ad revenue sources as well.
At a local cemetary there is a section for WWII casualties. The rows are perfectly aligned and there are several of them. I got down low for this shot and it gave a real feeling of the length of these. The aperture was the lowest it could go, but it still maintains fairly good focus on the first few stones.
I don't know what is going on with FeedBurner, but my stats are going up and down like crazy. It seem to jump from 35 to 64 and then back down again on a regular basis.
Today (November 9th) it is at 35 again.
There have been articles recently on other blogs about the Feedburner stats dropping off randomly. John Chow was blaming the Google RSS reader for misreporting in one of his posts recently (I can not find the link for it now). I'm assuming this must be it, but you think it would have been figured out by now.
It is almost like a weird timing issue where it registers one day, but it is off by a bit so doesn't catch the rest of them until the next day. I have not posted consistently this week either, so that might be the problem.
Anyhow, if you know anything, post a comment.
During my walk around the cemetary there was an old building there. I don't know what it was used for, but it was a locked up. The outside look very neat. This was taken by picking the stone on this side of the door as the focusing point and shooting it with a 50mm lens, aperture priority mode, and an aperture of 1.8.
These peculiar creatures were sticking out of the sand in their aquarium at the Vancouver Aquarium. They were definitely aware of their observers because if you made a sudden movement they were shy away back into their hole for a bit. I used my 50mm 1.8D Nikon lens here.
I took this show from the as low down as I could get on the ground looking up at this ominous gravestone. Located in a local cemetary, there were tombstones from the late 1800's. This one looked very foreboding against the sky.
I shot it with my 10-20mm Sigma wide-angle lens. I had it all the way out at 10mm to really stretch the stone upwards.
I released my new look for the Thoughts From My Life the other day and I have to say I think it looks awesome.
I am not done all the features that I want to put in, but I thought it would be best to just roll out the layout and fix what I came across later. It looks pretty good so far I must say. Some of the changes I have done are:
I wanted to make it look a bit snappier. The color is more brownish, but it looks more professional and clean then the old one.
I found a design on Open Source Web Design. This design was by Arcsin. I modified it quite a bit, but the original one was by him.
I used CSS as much as possible. It is supposed to improve your search engine optimization (SEO) by removing more of the display data to the CSS file and leaving the actual content in the html page.
Most blogs seem to do this anyways. The article headlines and content grab your eye a bit more when the menu options are on the other side. It also promoted the actual article content closer to the top of the page.
I always liked this option on blogs so you could see how many articles on in each category.
I took the time to get rid of most of the parsing errors so that the pages being served are more valid and easier for search engines to read.
Here is a screenshot of the old site.
I am going to be doing further improvements in the near future. Some you can expect are:
These jellyfish looked awesome against the blue background. The display at Vancouver Aquarium really brought out the detail of these creatures. They slowly moved up and down in their aquarium and you could see the thousands of tiny little filaments waving in the water as they pushed along.
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