We’re back. Actually, we got back late Sunday, but I’ve been too lazy to post anything. I’ve finally organized the massive number of pictures I took, though, and I’ve filtered them down to the ones that came out best. You can see ‘em in this here Flickr set.
I’ve got even more photos that I haven’t gone through yet. I’ll probably upload those in a day or two. Eventually I might even muster the energy to write about the trip, but you’ll have to settle for the pretty pictures for now.
Comments
Why external hosting?
Whatever happened to your old Lucida albums? Can't get your hands on enough bandwidth?
Re: Why external hosting?
Nah, it's just that I didn't feel like maintaining a web-based photo gallery. I'd much rather spend my time taking photos. Flickr is pretty nice, the bandwidth is cheap, and it saves me from having to do a lot of work.
How Beautiful!
It looks like you had an awesome trip, though I don't know how you wouldn't have.
Re: Why external hosting?
What sort of things don't you like about maintaining a photo gallery? What sort of features or workflows would make managing a gallery easy for you? I'm writing the photography parts of my CMS now, so ideas are most welcome.
Re: Why external hosting?
This is why I started writing Lucida, and it does indeed have many of those features, but the headaches involved in doing image manipulation in PHP via ImageMagick, as well as the amount of time I had to spent writing code instead of taking photos, were frustrating. Programming isn't very rewarding for me unless I'm doing something new or interesting, and there aren't a lot of new or interesting aspects to a web-based photo gallery. In the end, I decided it just wasn't worth my time, so I stopped working on it.
Luckily, Flickr came along. They've got most of the features I want in a web-based photo gallery and a lot of extra features that are really nice. The convenience of not having to spend any of my own time developing the software, not to mention the added benefit of unlimited bandwidth, makes it well worth $25 a year for me.
Re: Why external hosting?
Indeed. EXIF captions is actually a great idea, and I'm definitely going to implement that now that I've heard of it. What I'll end up doing is importing existing EXIF data to the database, and writing it out to the file on updates. That way it remains portable at a file level without slowing queries by requiring file access for every read.