…and now I’m changing the Gallery from Coppermine to Gallery3. Coppermine just feels too clunky for me.
The new gallery is up and images are transferred, but now I just have to figure out what I want to do with all the images that have been linked to the gallery. Good times.
Oops. I guess I decided to convert from Serendipity to WordPress for my blogging app. Hopefully the old entries come back online soon. If not, oh well. Then I just have to make the site look good.
Dang.
edit: well it kinda worked. Images don’t work any more. hmmm….
edit2: well images are back, but the formatting is nuked. Oh well. I might go edit them if I have time.
edit3: nope, I guess the images are broken still.
edit4: they’re back, for now.
Permissions. Ugh. Seems any time I make a change to the gallery, the permissions go all wonky. Oh well, it is fixed.
Well I did it.
I’ve been considering it for a while, and I finally pulled the trigger. I started my own forum for Sigma cameras. There are currently two main Sigma forums, and both have their issues – so I figured I’d start a new one that is hopefully more accommodating to most users. Not much there yet, still getting things set up:
“Floral” is in quotes for a reason. The landscaping at the back of the house has been neglected, because it’s at the back of the house 
A little while back I noticed we had a very large thistle growing, so a couple days ago I decided I’d do something with it.
Cutting pieces off of this was very tough without gloves. But it was worth it.
I set up a little makeshift “mini studio” in my office for the shoot. This basically consisted of a black comforter pushpinned to the wall, a white piece of cardboard as a reflector, and my SB-24 twist-tied to my tripod: no, I don’t have a light stand or umbrella yet. Soon. Maybe. I hope.
I shot these with the SD14 and Vivitar 28/2.5. The close-up shots were done using some generic macro extension tubes.
