A Cottage By the Sea
I came to Florida two years ago to escape the Winter as many people do, intending to stay only for three months. I sort of forgot to go back, even though I do miss the mountains. I guess I’ll be here a while longer still. This is the path that has chosen me for now.
Venus Rising
Taken this morning around 5:45am. The horizon looks like a tree line but it’s actually a fog bank way out to sea, probably coming from the warm waters of the Gulf Stream which is several miles away from shore here. Depending on your monitor brightness you can make out sea oats and surf. I’ve given up on monitor calibration. Adobe has discontinued their Gamma software tool and recommends hardware calibration. Nah.
It’s Alive
Ok the new gallery site is up and running. Right now it’s very basic and simple, but I’ll probably gussy it up as time permits. You will need Flash which you can download from the main page if necessary.
The url www.smokieslight.com doesn’t work and is probably lost in cyberspace forever. Hopefully not too many folks used that url as it was just an alias to the real site, which is www.jimfletcherphotography.com. On each gallery below the Portfolio menu, you can click on “Slideshow” at the lower left to view all images with a 5 second delay, or you can mouse over an image on the left or right and scroll thru them, or you can mouse down to the bottom of an image to display thumbnails. It’s pretty intuitive after a couple of minutes of mousing around.
Changes
My gallery site www.jimfletcherphotography.com is being moved to a new host provider sometime in the next couple of days. If you have that site bookmarked or linked, or access this blog thru www.jimfletcherphotography.com/blog or www.smokieslight.com/blog, then you might encounter a few errors during the move. The blog will always be available thru smokieslight.wordpress.com.
Along with the hosting move, a new design for the gallery site will be unveiled. Since most serious photographers use Flash for their websites, in order to express myself in a creative, unique way I also decided to conform to a Flash presentation. Now I know some folks don’t like Flash and won’t even install it on their computer, but Flash provides a nice functionality with slideshows, and most importantly provides copy protection, which is surprisingly a bigger problem than I thought it would be. I’ll post another note when it goes live.
