About

Wel­come to my photoblog!

Me

As you might be able tell, I’m an avid pho­tog­ra­pher and this site is intended to be a sim­plis­tic place to put the best selec­tion of my pho­tos.  Although I already have a blog, I wanted the empha­sis on this site to be about the pho­tos and not have a load of garbage (my usual topic of choice) in between them.

If you like a photo, please leave a com­ment or send me an e-mail!

Nav­i­gat­ing the Site

Just in case you’re a bit con­fused as to what every­thing does, here’s a lit­tle site map.

• Home­page
  Every­thing on the index page is done through some pretty AJAX. Pretty much every­thing is click­able, or you can use the keyboard:
  • ←: move backwards
  • →: move forwards
  • I: shot information
  • E: EXIF notes
  • c: Com­ments con­tent (type ‘esc’ to close the com­ment panel)
• Archives (new — Reflec­tion theme 1.1)
  It’s a new brows­ing page, you can dynam­i­cally select a pho­tos by click­ing a Year, a Tags or a Cat­e­gorie. To acti­vate this view, you have to cre­ate a new empty page, named ‘archives’ using the ‘Archives Template’
• Mosaic (dep­re­cated — Reflec­tion theme 1.0)
  Every photo ever posted is dis­played here, in square-format. To acti­vate this view, you have to cre­ate a new empty page, named ‘mosaic’ using the ‘Mosaic Template’
• Ran­dom
  See a ran­dom photo.

Design

First of all, many thanks go to the theme author David Moxey. He made an amaz­ing piece of art, with the reflec­tion theme.

All of the AJAX and visual effects (includ­ing the reflec­tion) are done using the Mootools library, which is pos­si­bly the best third-party JavaScript library I’ve ever used. The reflec­tion code was adapted from Christophe Beyls’ reflec­tion for Mootools script.

And of course, my thanks go to Johannes for his excel­lent YAPB plu­gin, which pow­ers all of the thumb­nails and image upload­ing. It’s by far the most feature-complete and adapt­able pho­to­blog plu­gin out there today.