As some of you know, I am traveling again this week. I left last Friday for Burum (actually staying in Groningen) in the Northern part of the Netherlands, where Stratos has a Land Earth Station.
The trip has been pretty routine, mostly work. Though I did have a chance to meet up with Lori on Sunday, which would be the highlight of any trip.
I don’t feel like writing too much, so instead I am just going to post a few pictures.
If you have been visiting the site lately (all two of you), you may have noticed the old Brian’s Cube theme appearing and disappearing. You may have also noticed that when the old theme was there, it was pretty much broken. Well, I have started to get use to the Wordpress theme tags, and I have now re-launched my old look and feel.
I cannot guarantee that the theme is without bugs, though I tried my best in testing it. If you see a problem, leave a comment and I will fix it as quickly as possible. I will also be adding new features (which are old features since the default theme I was using had them) like search as time allows. I also plan on sprucing up the page a bit with some more color and some of my photos. Until then, enjoy.
I sat down tonight to look at rewriting my old template to work with Wordpress. In the end though, I really didn’t have the attention span for it. So instead I decided to just add a new plugin. Since I started posting photos, I decided to add the stimuli.ca Lightbox2 plugin. From now on my posts will have a thumbnail of the photo and you will have to click it to see the full version.
To show off the new feature I am posting a photograph I took on Friday night. While Lori was out with the girls, I decided to go downtown and shoot St. John’s at night. The following was taken from the base of the South Side hills looking North.
As some of you know, I am currently taking a photography course at The Studio in an attempt to improve my skills. I am enjoying the course, and I like to believe that I am picking up the concepts and improving my photos. Of course one way of determining this is through the instructors critique, one of which is this week.
Unfortunately, since the last couple weeks have been quite busy, I have not taken many photos that I want to submit. I was hoping to take a bunch of landscapes this weekend, but the weather did not agree (overcast makes for poor light for landscapes). So, with Lori gone to Boston, I decided to take photos of my only company this weekend, my puppies.
Oddly enough, I actually got a couple good ones of April without her trying to lick my lens. So, in a bit of a change of direction for my site, I am going to post one of the photos as I start to share some of my favorites. I hope to do this somewhat regularly, but like anything on this site, I make no guarantees on frequency.
I don’t want to turn my site into a photo blog, so there will be other articles from time to time. Without further delay, here is the first photo.
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