Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: My sites
As mentioned in my hello piece i shoot a lot of horseracing stuff. My commercial site for point-to-point horseracing shots is http://www.point2pointing.co.uk and it typically holds shots from the current season (2006 is still on there atm)
There's a link to the archive from the main site, which is hosted at home so I don't have to worry about paying for oodles of disk space, although it does mean the archive isn't always up (my router falls over quite often) and the speed of the site isn't breathtaking either The scary thing about the archive is just how much improvement has been made since I started shooting in 2001. The handful of 2001 pics that weren't deleted aren't on the archive, but you can really tell 2002's shots were taken with very little experience and skill, not helped by a lagtastic 2mp point and shoot!
Since getting the D70 I've made a concious effort to learn a lot more about the craft of photography, and put a lot of the shots up on my webserver at home. Part-way through last year I created a flickr account and that has become the main outlet for my shots nowadays, although i still put the odd collection (especially where volume is concerned) on guinness.
I'll probably move the gallery on guinness onto an external server at some point, but there's always something more urgent to be dealing with!
Please feel free to have a nosey, I'm always grateful for suggestions and comments that allow me improve things! _________________ There is nothing in life that cannot be improved with either monkeys, pirates or ninjas NPU Member
I've given the front page of www.point2pointing.co.uk a bit of a face-lift - the rest of the site is unchanged other than the background now being a gradient
If you have any comments/gripes/suggestions, I'd be more than happy to hear them ;) _________________ There is nothing in life that cannot be improved with either monkeys, pirates or ninjas NPU Member
The darker of the two dogs is my brother-in-law's-girlfriend's dog, Nora. A more friendly, life-loving dog you would never meet
Had a shit day on Saturday, not really much to shout about pic-wise The frost had one key fence removed and as a result the fields never got separated, so there was just an amorphous mass of horses rumbling around - not ideal when the winner is safely packed away in the middle somewhere!!
I think I'm suffering a bit of analysis paralysis at the moment too, but have a few weeks off now before the next meeting so have time to get my head in check, and will probably send most of my kit off for a service - focus on the 70-200 has become a little 'sticky' _________________ There is nothing in life that cannot be improved with either monkeys, pirates or ninjas NPU Member
Your site is looking good Jon, well done. Although it's ridiculously hard to single out individual images from so much fine work, I particularly like '1094: Confined. The field' just for the field set off against the wonderful building in the background. _________________
Thanks Keith - Duncombe Park is a lovely setting for a race meeting, and I do try to get that rather extensive abode into plenty of the shots
Forgot to mention that the main image on the front page is a revolving pic - there are around 5 that it'll randomly choose from, and I'd imagine the list of images will evolve over time, which will hopefully keep the page fresh-ish _________________ There is nothing in life that cannot be improved with either monkeys, pirates or ninjas NPU Member
Forgot to mention that the main image on the front page is a revolving pic - there are around 5 that it'll randomly choose from, and I'd imagine the list of images will evolve over time, which will hopefully keep the page fresh-ish
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The scary thing about the archive is just how much improvement has been made since I started shooting in 2001. The handful of 2001 pics that weren't deleted aren't on the archive, but you can really tell 2002's shots were taken with very little experience and skill, not helped by a lagtastic 2mp point and shoot!
The frost had one key fence removed and as a result the fields never got separated, so there was just an amorphous mass of horses rumbling around - not ideal when the winner is safely packed away in the middle somewhere!!
