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Website Converted to WordPress

Over four years ago this website was fully implemented using the WSPP Impact technology and over the past year it has started to show its age. As I have posted earlier, I have recently migrated all of this site’s photo galleries over to software that better handles today’s huge range of mobile devices. When that was finished, it was time to remove the last remaining visages of WSPP Impact — to ease my burden of using multiple tools, but also insure against a serious failure of depreciating software.

Recently I had used WordPress to build other websites (e.g., Chez Mirabel, our shared French house) and gained experience and confidence in its capabilities and probable longevity. So I decided to migrate this site’s remaining base structures and pages into WordPress. I also used The Turning Gate’s WordPress Template in order to more easily match the look and feel of the recently converted picture galleries, implemented using Turning Gate products. As a large added benefit, this change will also improve the website’s overall indexing by search engines

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Two Days in Columbia River Gorge

Ponytail Falls, Columbia River GorgeLast weekend I spent two days hiking in the Columbia Gorge. The wildflower reports had been excellent and I did see lots of flowers, but I didn’t find them either photogenic or able to be captured in driving rain. Therefore I “focused” on waterfall and creek shots. The first day was spent driving up to Dry Creek Falls, followed by hiking up Tanner Creek to Wahclella Falls, and then up McCord Creek to Elowah Falls (both in the driving rain). Sunday was spent hiking the Horsetails Falls, Ponytail Falls, Upper Oneonta Falls, and Triple Falls loop. I appreciated the much nicer weather, but not the crowds it brought out. Trip’s images can be found at: Columbia Gorge Gallery.

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All Photo Galleries Now Converted to New Technology

As previously posted, last year I started using new software for displaying all new photo galleries on the website. This was done to better show the website on the wide array of mobile and desktop devices that are now popular. Since that initial switch I have been slowly converting previously published galleries to TTG’s CE3 Publisher (a Lightroom plug-in). I have now finished all those conversions, so that all galleries are now displayed with much higher quality on all devices and you no longer have to scroll through an entire gallery in order to find a particular image.

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Trip to Europe & East Africa

Martha and I, together with Bend friends Andy & Marcia, spent 5 weeks in Europe and East Africa this fall. We spent the first week at Chez Mirabel, our shared house in Provence, France. Then 4 days in Amsterdam, followed by two weeks on safari in Northern Tanzania. Lastly, we spent a week on Zanzibar, mostly on Pongwe Beach. It was not a photography oriented trip as most of our activities occurred in the middle of the day, under bright sun. Nonetheless, I did take a full photography “kit” and managed to come back with 13,000 photos! Details about the trip and selected images can be found here: Europe & East Africa Galleries

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