The Windy Day

This shot always makes me laugh.

It was taken in New Zealand (1997), by my sister Sally, as we stood on the edge of a cliff. She somehow managed to snap the shot just as the wind picked up, forcing me to hold onto a pole for dear life.

You have to remember that with a film based SLR you don’t get to preview the shots, so this was one take, it took amazing co-ordination. Well done Sis!  

Photos Online

I have no idea why it took me so long, but I have finally gotten around to getting some of my photos online. Over the last week or so I spent hours sorting through all 14,000 of them, choosing just those I consider to be the best. Given how many there are, I have long ago given up any desire to categorise them all, so this is where I will start.

Its a pretty modest collection, and it includes shots from the time I got my first SLR (an Cannon EOS 500 when I was 18) to now. Last year I spent months painfully converting all my negatives to digital, while the quality is not brilliant, it is good enough. Leaving my negatives for many more years would have meant losing them forever as they had already degraded significantly. Looking through them I really wish I had been able to take them with a digital.

The hosting service I settled on is Smugmug, although the plan I have is really overkill for my purposes, it allows me to host the photos on my own domain. This means my photos will always be available at http://photos.daniel.mcpherson.name. This is all part of an ongoing experiment to better manage my online identity, kind of a proof point for the sorts of things we are doing at the Internet Address Book.

Anyway, I will be posting on the odd photo every now and then, its fun for me to remember where it was taken, why it was taken, thinking back to the places I have been. I know its indulgent, but its MY blog…