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Blogs, Social Media, Tweets and Gibberish

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Caribou herd on the coastal plain, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Caribou herd feeding on the coastal plain, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Click the thumbnail for a larger, more epic, version.

Hey Folks

Recently I read a photographer ask the following question:

Now I know that blogging gets your profile closer to the top of the heap and web traffic will probably go up. The question is have any of you actually seen a raise in the amount of sales as a result? Is it all worth the amount of time that it takes to do all this stuff?

Now, I hope the photographer doesn’t mind me mentioning his name, but I only do so because this guy is a total BAD-ASS. Readers, meet Mr Adam Gibbs. Adam is an amazing photographer, and I don’t mean ‘amazing’ like ‘oh yeah, cool’ – I mean like his images are simply gorgeous. If this photo doesn’t make you cry, you’re computer is broke. If this photo doesn’t move you, it’s time for you to retire from your position as CEO of Exxon-Mobil, Mr Tillerson.

Anyway, the discussion that ensued revolved, as suspected, around blogging, facebooking, tweeting, etc, etc. Is it “worth it”? (more…)

Tags: Alaska, ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, blogs, Caribou, Carl Donohue, facebook, photographers, Photography, Skolai Images, Social Media, twitter
Posted in ANWR, Alaska, Caribou, Miscellaneous, Musings, Photo business., Photography, Social Media, Web Stuff, Wildlife | 7 Comments »

Wendell Berry and Guy Tal.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Winter in the Mentasta Mountains, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park.

A winter sunset over the Mentasta Mountains, Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Hey Folks,

“The effort to clarify our sight cannot begin in the society, but only in the eye and in the mind. It is a spiritual quest, not a political function. We each must confront the world alone and learn to see it for ourselves”. So says Wendell Berry, one of my favorite writers, in his book “The Unforeseen Wilderness”. The book, a dearly needed plea to save Kentucky’s Red River Gorge from a nefarious plan to dam it, was written nearly 40 years ago. I haven’t read the book completely yet, as I just bought it this afternoon. But I glanced at it, and this passage caught my attention. Berry continues on:

“the figure of the photographic artist – not the tourist-photographer who goes to a place, bound by his intentions and preconceptions, to record what has already been recorded and what he therefore expects to find, but the photographer who goes into a place in search of the real news of it”.* (more…)

Tags: Alaska, Art, artist, Carl Donohue, Guy Tal, Landscape features, photographer, Photography, photos, scenes, scenics, snow, Sunsets, The Unforeseen Wilderness, Wendell Berry, Winter
Posted in Abstracts, Alaska, Elk, Fall, Forests, Lakes, Landscape features, Mountains, Photo business., Skiing, Snowboarding, Travel, Web Stuff, Winter, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | 3 Comments »

Spammers and bloggers

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Hey Folks,

I know a number of the people who visit here have blogs of their own, and most, from what I have seen, also use wordpress as their blogging software. Lately, it seems, some automated spam program has been spamming wordpress blogs with comments that appear like this:

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or similar. The spam blocker, Akismet, for Wordpress doesn’t seem to be too good at picking them up. So what to do? (more…)

Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Web Stuff | 8 Comments »

Webhost digitalinet – a review.

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

hey Folks,

So whilst I’m locked down in the dungeon of Anchorage, waiting on the mechanics to tell me my van is fine, and any possible breakdowns were/will be my own doing, I’m dealing with another issue. My backpacking/guiding website, www.alaskanalpinetreks.com was set up, with the help of a friend Bugsy, a fantastic artist from Atlanta (now in LA), years ago, and hosted, at the Bugs’ recommendation, on digitalinet.com. Well, it’s been an adventure, but digitalinet can go to he**.

Their website indicates 24/7 tech support, and toll free phone support. Their website fails to provide any phone # or contact information, other than a standard form to fill out, at all. Not even an email address. I did, via extensive Google searching, extract a few of phone numbers that were supposedly related to digitalinet.com .. 2 of them were no longer working, the other 2 both yielded immediate voice mail messages, and I couldn’t get anyone to return a single call from either of them. (more…)

Posted in Miscellaneous, People, Photo business., Rants, Web Stuff | 8 Comments »

A Little Web Design time.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

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Hey Folks,

So what have I been up to all this time, if I wasn’t pushing my van around Alaska in the winter? Well, I’ve been updating my website/s, giving them some new content and a slight aesthetic overhaul as well. Nothing too major, but learning a few things about design and tweaking some little things. One of things I’ve been working on is integrating a coding technique called “Flash” into the web pages. It’s pretty cool, though I know some web users are averse to Flash stuff.

For all you “non-web-design” people (i.e., my dad) “Flash” is (more…)

Posted in Grizzly Bears, Katmai National Park, Miscellaneous, Web Stuff, Wildlife | 4 Comments »

Wildflowers in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska.

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Hey Folks

I’ve been working on some updates on my backpacking website www.alaskanalpinetreks.com, and haven’t really had much time to keep up on the journal lately. I’m also working on something REALLY cool, but I can’t tell you what it is yet. Stay tuned! (more…)

Posted in Adventures, Alaska, Backpacking and Hiking, Landscape features, Mountains, Web Stuff, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | No Comments »

Website Wonders

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Hey Folks

I’m a Mac user. Tried and true, a bonafide Mac user. As such my efforts at web design are often in vain because of the difference between the Apple and the Windows platforms. Often there’s some discrepancies between how they display certain code. Part of what my recent post about Web Validation had to do with this subject, though it was less specific to the PC/Apple scenario. The Web Validator is basically a way of setting a standard so that browsers and platforms will display coded websites as they’re intended to be displayed. (more…)

Posted in Alaska, Miscellaneous, Travel, Web Stuff, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park | No Comments »

Website Validation

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Hey Folks,

I’ve been sitting on this freaking computer nearly all day, dealing with stupid little keyboard characters and symbols to validate my website. What exactly does ‘validate my website’, I know you’re asking. Take a look at Website Validator if you don’t have much to do with your time. If you’re interested in spending days on your own website, for little gain, this is for you. I went through all of the main pages on my Alaskan Alpine Treks website trying to fix stupid little “errors” that apparently needed fixing. Now, my website worked just fine before I did all this. (more…)

Posted in Miscellaneous, Web Stuff | 2 Comments »