photonelly.com

Well, as much as we rely on technology and our gadgets these days, we must endure the delays that occur when we have to go without.

What started as a little scare last week with display on my primary development/darkroom laptop turned into an inevitable hardware failure, so I’m getting it ready for a visit to the service department next week. Of course, it has to happen two weeks after my warranty expired. D’oh!

I can still use the laptop, but I have to use a remote connection from my Mac Mini to get to it. Not exactly ideal for working with Photoshop on my gorgeous 24” monitor, not is it?

I have a temporary replacement machine coming this week, so I’ll either set that one up this weekend to do some interim photo work, or I may just break down and download the 30-day Photoshop CS4 trial for my Mac.  Playing by ear and how I’m feeling about the situation later this week.

Off Topic

So I decided to use another one of my bunny photos for this post, because every post should have a photo, right?

The last gratuitous bunny pic I had was back in November when I switched to WordPress, so I think that officially makes it a pattern for these random site updates, issues, etc. I’m thinking my little friend here may become my own version of the well-known Twitter Fail Whale, watcha think?

In lieu of new photos this week, I’ll still try and stay on top of things with posts in the Before and After and Facebook series, and maybe even a book review or two. I guess that’s another sticking point is that there’s a lot for me to do than just taking and editing photos. My work is never done.

– Kris

If I ever decide to make a concentrated effort to overcome my fear of portrait photography, it will likely start with countless hours of practice on cute little animals like our adorable rabbit, Star.

Sure, while they don’t take direction very well when trying to pose them, they’re not going to look at the pictures afterwards and cringe. And after I can get the knack of shooting a subject that’s racing around on the ground in rather unpleasant indoor lighting, taking portraits will seem that much easier (skin tones aside, anyway).

For more of Star, you can check out the brief little blog, Igloo Surfing, that I put together earlier this year but haven’t had time to update in forever. It was sort of inspired by the popular rabbit blog Disapproving Rabbits, with the type of humor that only fellow rabbit owners can truly appreciate.

Have you heard?

photonelly.com is now running on the WordPress platform.
(gratuitous bunny pic)

All told, it took less than a week to move over all the custom pages from the existing photonelly.com site, as well as bringing over the 180 posts from Blogger that were published via FTP.  Hadn’t really paid attention to the post count until now, as it looks like I’ve been posting more daily photos than I realized.

Another good chunk of that time was taken up by porting over the custom home page code I had on the previous site to parse out the Blogger feed data to show new photos on the blog itself. It was fun code for the geek in me to write, but the new structure I setup with WordPress is a lot cleaner.

So … What’s Different?
Well, not much right now. The blog itself has a slightly new look with the sidebar and new widgets. Oh, and PAGING!!!! Not something that I had from FTP publishing with Blogger. It’s the little things, folks.

But, it’s really only the beginning. With all my site pages and stylesheets now maintained in WordPress, it is a lot easier to add more of the new content I’ve been dreaming up. There are also good widgets, plug-ins, and maybe a theme or two that I may look into adding. I also have a ton of new links to share, and looking to feature some of the great photography blogs I’ve started to follow this year.

All-in-all, it’s going to be a lot more fun than Blogger was.

Stay Tuned
Okay, that wasn’t much of a teaser for things to come, but if you like some of my images or where I take make them, go ahead and subscribe to the feed to get updates as they’re posted. You can also find me on Twitter, too as @webnelly if you’re into that or even on Flickr if you wanted to say Aloha!

- Kris

P.S.: Nobody’s perfect, so there are bound to be a few things that I missed when migrating or are no longer working. Please let me now if you find such instances.

Most of the time, our bunnies are so darn cute even when they’re not doing anything.

I clicked passed this photo in my collection on Flickr when browsing through some of the archives, and felt like sharing.

If you’d like to see more of this little lady, you can check out (the long since updated) Igloo Surfing.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist another bunny photo this Easter morning. Here’s Star perched on top of her plastic igloo, looking very regal in the process.