If you’re just tuning in… Your erstwhile blogger/webdeveloper is trying to overcome his aversion to website-in-a-box development platforms and find a simple Paypal payment solution for a prospective client. If I happen to sell some of my own photography along the way, that’s OK. too. I’m trying to come up with a simple “buy now”…
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WordPress Paypal Plugins
A possible new client wants to do some hyper-simple e-commerce. Usually, I create custom sites, but WordPress has a lot of advantages, starting with easy set-up and maintenance, and this site will be so simple, it shouldn’t really require anything I can’t do with WP. But, I’ve never used the WP add ons for e-commerce….
Adventures in Smugmug Land
Oh my, time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like… nevermind, everybody’s heard that one. Anyway, long time, no blog, and it’s not because nothing blog-worthy has happened. It’s more like stuff happens faster than I can type it, or something. Anyway, I’ve been putting some time and energy into promoting my nature photography online…
Plunging into video production
For several years now, it’s seemed inevitable that I’d take a serious plunge into the shark-infested waters of video production. The inevitability has a lot to do with some sort of metaphorical mathematics: theatre + photography + computer graphics = video. Or something like that. A year and a half or so ago, I bought…
fire at usal
I just posted a video on YouTube. It’s old and new at the same time. While I just barely did the video editting, I took the footage in July of 2006. Andi and I were walking up the bed of Usal Creek, on Calfornia’s Lost Coast. We heard an odd crackling sound. We looked around……
big prints, photo merge, epson 7600
A couple of months ago, a long-time photo buddy of mine stopped by my office. He had a proposition for me. No, not that kind of proposition. He’d just made a great deal on a used Epson 7600 printer. It was cheap, since it had clogged jets. He was confident he could fix it, but…
adventures in youtube land
I really should spend my time more productively… I’ve caught the youtube bug lately, mostly watching and commenting on ads and news videos relating to the upcoming presidential election. Oh, my goodness there are some incredibly stupid people out there! The comment forums there are such a sewer that I figured anything I type would…
photo workshop: breath of plein air II
I’ll be teaching a field photography workshop as part of A Breath of Plein Air II, in Westport, CA on September 27 & 28. Here are a few of my pics from last year’s event. One of our locations was Blue’s Beach, AKA Chadbourne Gulch: We also walked out to nearby Bruhel Point and watched…
montgomery woods fire report
The fire situation has calmed nicely around Mendocino County. The roads are open, the evacuations have been called off, the fires are contained or out. On the Coast, we hadn’t seen the sun for a week or so, so I thought I’d go inland to Montgomery Woods for an afternoon. There were several fires near…
the lost coast: an overview
Note: This is a rough draft of content for my future Lost Coast website. I’ll do research and stuff later. California Highway 1 runs along the Pacific Coast from the border with Mexico northward. A few miles north of the tiny town of Westport—roughly 180 miles north of San Francisco—Hwy. 1 suddenly veers inland, intersects…