Re-added the portfolio section and uploaded a few new images for it, too. Check it out!
∞A Better, Brighter Flickr
Huge update of Flickr.
At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s moments can be relived in their original quality. No limited pixels, no cramped formats, no memories that fall flat. We’re giving your photos room to breathe, and you the space to upload a dizzying number of photos and videos, for free. Just how big is a terabyte? Well, you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one.
In concrete numbers, a terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes, or 1,048,576 megabytes. Wow. This is huge. Most other services on the web are still only offering a few gigabytes. Yahoo has really upped the ante!
Combine this with the recent purchase of Tumblr, arguably the biggest blogging platform on the net, the most popular hangout for kids, and a really popular social site, and this is a huge one-two punch from the new Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer.
Site Problems
Seems like there are always problems, huh? I have no idea why most of the pages on this site aren’t working right now. After I updated the site to the new design, everything was working, and continued to work until about a week ago. I haven’t made any changes in this time so it mystifies me why it suddenly broke. I’ve reinstalled WordPress, reinstalled my site theme, republished all the broken pages. Nothing has helped.
At this point, I am clueless. I will keep working at it, though, and try to get things back up soon. If you have any suggestions, feel free to message me on twitter.
Update 2013-05-21
Not sure what I did, but all is working again. The portfolio section is gone because I accidentally deleted it in my quest to solve the problem. Whoops. I’ll restore it tonight when I get to a computer.
∞Photoshop CC — Adobe Goes Subscription Only
The next version of Photoshop will be Photoshop CC, and it will only be available through subscription. No more boxed version.
Adobe Photoshop CC will be available to Creative Cloud customers starting in June 2013. You’ll need to subscribe to Creative Cloud for $50 per month to use all of the new CC programs, or subscribe to Photoshop CC itself for $20 per month.
That does come out quite a bit cheaper than buying the full version, but a bit more than the upgrade prices of the past. Which kind of sucks, but it’s worth noting that the Creative Cloud also comes with 20GB of cloud storage, access to type kit fonts, and a few other bells and whistles.
I’m kind of neutral on this. Photography is my job and my primary income, so I imagine I’ll get it. But a lot of folks are up in arms against this so I may wait to see how Adobe responds to all this anger before I buy.
Fly a Fantasy
Clouds and clouds & more clouds. The sunset was just beginning — it’s over to the left — but I was drawn to these puffy clouds here.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.Ansel Adams
New design
Introducing the latest version of JapanDave. It’s been a long time in coming. My interest in minimal design continues; as such you’ll notice I’ve striped out almost everything, leaving in only the essentials.
Among the changes:
- A new portfolio section. The old gallery has been broken since shortly after I made it; this new one should work a bit better. At present it doesn’t have a lot of images in it, but I will be adding more in the days to come.
- A new blog engine that will allow me to post links with comments and quotes. Video & audio too, if I am so inclined.
- More bugfixes than I can count. Things should work better now.
Speaking of bugs, there are still some things that are funky. Over the coming days I’ll try to hunt down all these and fix them.
And so far, no comments. I may bring them back — I know they are popular — but I may not. For the moment, if you want to comment on something I post, I recommend Facebook, Twitter, or email. Twitter is probably easiest. A fun program if you have never heard of it. In addition to me, you can also follow Mr T and Shatner!
That’s all for now. Enjoy.