Journal

⚑️ Aaaand electricity is back.

Took about 50 minutes. I remember an outage that lasted the whole day – but that one was announced in advance and had to do with grid maintenance (πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ).

Also a good reminder to keep all my devices charged whenever possible. πŸ™‚

eSIMs for Travel

I kept this stash of local SIM cards while traveling. There were many more in this bag after traveling for more than …

As the content types grow, I added some tabs to my Kirby Panel:

Kirby panel of my photoblog with tabs for blog, galleries, postcards and webmentions

I also love the way the last tab becomes this [… more] button, when the screen size is too small: πŸ‘Œ

Tabs in the Kirby panel are hidden under a more button, if the screen is not wide enough

Also I just found out I never clicked on that little pen icon (whereas I use the search all the time):

A little pen icon in the Kirby panel indicates unsaved changes

Turns out Kirby remembers when you forgot to save a change, even when it was months ago! πŸ™ˆπŸ€―

My Black and White Workflow

Today I was asked about my black and white workflow. I thought I might answer it here as well: I only shoot raw, both …

πŸ“· May I present to you, my photographic documentation of beyond tellerrand 2023 in DΓΌsseldorf feat. @sophie @scott @quasimondo @michelle @cassiecodes @tobestobs and more.

I had an amazing time – as always! Thanks to all the speakers for your inspiring stories and @marcthiele for having me! πŸ™

In the process of editing my #btconf images from earlier this week:

I did take 1,641 images in total. 805 were left after the first pass, 406 after the second. Now down to 219 photos. I usually aim for something in the range of 150 or so images. Getting rid of the last 50, is always the hardest part.

Final thing after that will be sequencing. I mostly go with chronological here, but sometimes, moving a couple of images around makes for a more interesting flow.

Stay tuned!

Personal Picture Postcards

So I created this new feature into my photo blog where I can send a photograph and a personal note to someone in the …

The Kirby Panel

I didn’t mention the panel in my last post about Kirby 1. Although I initially thought, I would add new posts via …

I am currently reading Austin Kleon‘s “Show your work!” I love the format of the book and it is a quick and entertaining read so far.

Once you make sharing part of your daily routine, you’ll notice themes and trends emerging in what you share. You’ll find patterns in your flow.

This bit especially resonated with me. As I am in the process of (making and) sharing photos daily on my photo blog, I find patterns all the time, certain repeating themes, subjects I am drawn to. This was also the main reason for creating “collections” on the blog – not for others, but to make these patterns more obvious for myself.

I didn’t get CSS to run doom or anything, but I’m still delighted that I made this work using only HTML, CSS, and a little weasy black magic.

Ian G McDowell on “Laying Out a Print Book With CSS

Very interesting – and entertaining – read.

via Claudio