Moving from Flickr to SmugMug

Over the last couple of years, I've been storing my photos online @ Flickr. But I fear that time has come to move forward. Forward to another service for the next couple of years. The main reason for moving is that Flickr doesn't seem to innovate. No innovation basically means going backwards, in these days.

Flickr is a WYSIWYG environment. What you see is what you get, and not in the way this term is usually used on the Interwebs. There's no way of changing the coloring or appearance (white only). No way of integrating into another website (e.g. changing the URL).

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Scotland Holiday 2009

Two and a half weeks driving around in Scotland. The weather was extremely good, which we didn't anticipate, so we didn't have enough t-shirts etc. Who would have thought that over two weeks of sunshine was possible in Scotland?

Saw lots of ruins, castles, sheep, churches, sun, beer, whisky, ruins, castles and stuff. No need to get bored when you're over there. Only downside to the extremely good weather was that I wasn't able to shoot many of those typical cloudy/rainy Scotland photo's.

The trip started with the ferry IJmuiden-New Castle. After that it was Dumfries, Oban, Spean Bridge, Struan (Isle of Sky), Ullapool, Thurso, Ballater, Glenrothes, and back to New Castle. Basically a trip covering the best parts of Scotland (we did miss the Orkneys though).



Also available on my flickr page or here.

More Forks

This is the final version which I presented during the cutlery results evening. One of the local camera club assignments.

Twins

More photos on my flickr page.

Fork Experiment

An assignment from the local camera club.... No idea if this is gonna be the final result. We'll see. I've got till March for this assignment.

More photos on my flickr page.

Back From 'The Canaries'

We went to the Canary Islands (Spain) last week. One whole week of sleep, sun, eat, and drink (all-inclusive). Today.... back to work. Damn, that's hard.

I didn't take that many pictures. Mostly some experimenting with slow shutterspeeds, and HDR (and the occasional sunset).

More photos on my flickr page.

Experimenting with HDR

The HDR consists of a 5 image series (-2EV -> +2EV) taken last Saturday in Goedereede.

More photos from the Goedereede shoot are available on my flickr page.

Lucky shot

I spotted the airplane just in time. It's a KLM airplane heading south. The image is not manipulated (apart from the conversion to black&white).

More photos at my flickr page.

Reflecting Windmills

Taken @ Kinderdijk, the Netherlands

More photos at my flickr page

Dark clouds over Papendorp

A HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo taken from the office.

The HDR looks relatively normal. Not that bad if you think that I shot the 9 images with the bare hands.

More HDR on my flickr page

Flickr Stats

I've been using for about two years now, and today I found the stats page (you need to log in to view your stats). No idea if this is new, but it sure gives a nice breakdown on your photo activity.