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08.17.2009 Mark Wood 2 Comments

Evaluating Zenfolio Again

After receiving many questions regarding Zenfolio vs. SmugMug over the past year, I’ve come to realize that many updates have been made to both services. Therefore, I decided that I should really re-evaluate the services provided by both before paying up for another year of hosting.

About a week ago, I signed up for a 14-day trial over at Zenfolio. Let me say, I’m impressed. While the look and feel is totally opposite that of SmugMug, it’s quite intuitive and so far, I’m really enjoying playing around.

I’m planning on a full evaluation once I spend a bit more time with it, but for now, I wanted to give a bit of a sneak preview!


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08.12.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

Magnetic Photo Rope — Too Cool!

It’s not often I see a product that seems both innovative and useful at the same time. But this Magnetic Photo Rope, by Photojojo seems like the perfect display solution for photos, artwork and just about anything else you could want to display that’s made of a thin material!

Check it out here.

I guess you could say it’s the sleek, modern way of hanging stuff on the refrigerator — but without all the magnets!

08.11.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

Greene New York Flooding

We’ve been experiencing serious thunderstorms around here these last two days, but as we were driving home from work, the thunder stopped and the sun came out. The area where we live suffers from some pretty serious flooding problems, so I figured that I’d take the chance to drive around town and see if I couldn’t capture some of the water that is everywhere.

This used to be a Trickle of Water
NIKON D200 @ 18mm — ¹/30 sec, ƒ/6.3, ISO 100 | zoom in
A Raging Torrent

It’s times like this that I’m glad we live on the top of a hill. However, as we neared the bottom of the road leading up to our house, I looked over and saw that. While it may look like a nice river, it’s normally just a trickle of water. Further down this creek it was possible to see more erosion.
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08.10.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

SmugMug Downtime

After some recent troubles with SmugMug over the past week, it appears the SmugMug team has decided to just schedule two downtime windows to get things sorted out.

They published this article detailing the recent problems and their proposed solution.

What does this mean to me?

They claim that there will be two windows. One tomorrow (August 11, 2009) and one Thursday (August 13, 2009). They don’t list exact times of these outages so I really don’t know what to expect.

However, they do claim that there will be a new feature coming soon — as early as this week. This is good timing for me as I am planning on trying out Zenfolio again. But more on that later!

08.10.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

Pet Photography – Fail!

Friday morning, our cat was feeling particularly playful. Thinking this was as good a time as any to practice some action photography, I grabbed my camera. Let’s just say it didn’t go as planned. To start with, our cat is really fast!

A cat chasing a toy
NIKON D200 @ 70mm — ¹/20 sec, ƒ/4.5, ISO 320 | zoom in
Flying after a toy

In the above shot, she’s chasing a cat toy attached to a plastic wand by an elastic string. I saw the toy fly by, the cat jump, and well… Admittedly, 1/20th second shutter speed isn’t going to stop motion here. But the poor lighting in this room of our house coupled with her high rate of speed produced a very blurry image. However, I actually kinda like it. I just wish her head were in the frame.
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