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RSS Feed Repaired

Andrew — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:46:21 +0000

Just discovered (and fixed) a technical problem with the RSS feed. This likely affected e-mail subscriptions too. Let me know if you have any problems.

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Kudos to Seagate

Andrew — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:24:55 +0000

Near disaster this week: my Seagate hardrive, repository of rougly 700 gigs of photos, suddenly stopped working. With no warning the drive disappeared from Windows, and even the bios wouldn’t recognize it. Minor panic as I realized that though I have an extra copy of every raw file on the drive (I make backups as I download each photo with Downloader Pro), I did not have backups of my photoshop files created over the last few months. Also, since I hadn’t backed up recently, restoring my download backups would mean deleting, again, raw files that I’d already examined and discarded once. Not fun. Plus recovering and organzing the backup raw files would be a pain, since the backups reside on a least three different systems.

To make a long story short, the drive was rendered inoperable by a firmware bug. Not so hot on Seagate’s part. But, much to their credit, Seagate arranged to have the drive overnighted to them — they paid for shipping and even for the cost to package the drive. A tech called me the next day, telling me that he’d fixed the firmware and that the drive was fixed and on its way back. I should be back up and running by shortly.

So, while I’m not happy about the firmware bug, I was very impressed by how well Seagate handled the repair. Doubly impressed, because I bought the drive as a “bare” OEM drive, and I expected to get a hassle about the warranty.

Of course, my images will now live on a RAID system, so I won’t lose any data even if I lose a drive. And I’ll be better (really!) about offsite backups.

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Twitter

Andrew — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:27:01 +0000

As an experiment, I’ve created a twitter companion account (@ASK_Photography) to go with my blog. Look for updates in the sidebar at the right.

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RSS Feed Fixed

Andrew — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:07:41 +0000

I just fixed my RSS Feed to show the entire post (with images). The thumbnail galleries still look a little funky, but I’m working on it. Let me know if you have any other issues with the feed.

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By Request

Andrew — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:38:31 +0000

When I migrated my old site over to the current one, I left out a number of photos that do not represent my best work. This mallard image didn’t make the cut. My brother likes this one enough, however, to complain that he could no longer find it. By request (and after more carefully evaluating the image) I’ve added it back to the bird portfolio.

New Bosque Gallery

Andrew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:25:38 +0000

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I have posted a new gallery of images from Bosque del Apache, one of my favorite places on the planet to photograph.

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New Collection of Fox Images

Andrew — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:22:02 +0000

I have posted a collection of red fox images. I hope to post some additional collections soon as I finish fleshing out the new site. Enjoy.

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New Night Blurs

Andrew — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:54:15 +0000

I have added many additional images to the Night Blurs collection. Enjoy!

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Long Time No Blog

Andrew — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:47:22 +0000

I have been incredibly bad about updating my blog lately. I’ve also gotten way behind editing the (many) photos that I’ve shot over the last couple of months. The largely unedited shoots (Belize, Arches National Park, an early morning “photographers only” shoot at the local zoo, some nice fox kit images, etc.) are starting to pile up. So, I’ve resolved to get “caught up” in the next week. In that sprit, here’s an image from a shoot this morning in a wildlife refuge near Boulder, Colorado. It’s just an Eastern Kingbird, not the most exotic species. But I like the perch, the action, and the clean background.

Back to work editing images . . .

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New(ly processed) Images from Monte Vista

The Turning Gate Lightroom Web Galleries

Andrew — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:00:47 +0000

If you use Lightroom and need to throw together a gallery quickly, or if you’d like to create a photography website without learning HTML or hacking Gallery to do your bidding, you should check out the great set of Lightroom web gallery templates from Matthew at The Turning Gate.

Matt’s (donationware) templates provide everything you need to assemble a professional-looking photo gallery or a whole website. Check out his demonstration gallery to see all of the various templates in action, including the “meta templates” that draw various light-room generated galleries together into a coherent website.

I’ve used the Slimbox Gallery for a number of private quick-and-dirty web galleries. Also, I use the Monoslideshow Gallery to generate the XML for the Monoslideshow Gallery on the Splash Page of AndrewKelley.net

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