McGillveray Studios

The Wall Street Journal published a new pictures of the week gallery for June 11th. It is worth a look here.

It has been cold here now (and the rest of Canada) for about 3 weeks, ranging from -20 deg C. to -40. That is without the wind chill. Today you can see the wind is not to bad. If the wind is not blowing, it can be nice outside even at these low temps. as the air is dry and crisp. But still should have gone to some tropical country. If the stock market never crashed.

Looking Out My Front Door This Morning

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Today I added a new HDR gallery to my main site gallery page. I thought it was time as I made a couple of posts about HDR latley. There is both a PicLens and a Flash gallery for this one. It’s  about 1/2 way down the page and titled, what else but HDR images.

You can click this LINK to get to it.

Reckitt Benckiser Plants Trees In Fort St. John

I recently did a photo-shoot for Reckitt Benckiser Corp. at Cecil Lake, 60 Km NW of Fort St. John. This international company, based in England, produces fimilar brands such as Lysol, Dettol, Calgon, Vanish, Resolve, Spray ‘n Wash, Woolite, Electrasol, Airwick, Clearasil, Strepsils, Veet, French’s Mustard, Frank’s Redhot, and Cattlemen’s. I think I have used every one of these products at some point in my life.

RB is in Fort St. John planting trees for their Trees For Change program. They will be planting more than 2 million trees over 15 square Km. Most of that amount right here. The tractor trailer in the picture was delivering 200,000 trees, and the company doing the planting is North Eagle Reforestation out of Chetwynd B.C.

It was very interesting and informative shooting this documentary for a project that is good for us all.

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Cambodia

I wanted to show some of the pictures my daughter, Kristine, took recently in Cambodia. She was taking a break from teaching English in Thailand.They will have to go to my Gallery 2 installation as explained below. Click-Here There is some good shots from a young lady and a cheap camera, post processed by dad.

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I am having a heck of a time running Wordpress. I had my host switch my server as I wanted to get php Exif going, so viewers on my site could see the photo meta data. They could not get it running on the server I was on, and offered to switch me to a different server, I said OK. On the old server I could at least up load pics to my posts but not on the new one. I can upload to Gallery 2 and my Coppermine Gallery, but not Wordpress. I installed a fresh install of Wordpress at a different location using my servers Fantasico Installer and cannot up load to it either. I uploaded this pic using ftp and linked to it.

Update May 4 2008 – I got the Wordpress file up loader working on the new server! I found on the Wordpress fourm a temporary fix. I have to insert a .htaccess file into the Wordpress directory, with a mod to the way the mod_security function works on the server. Go figure the same host with their servers all configured differently. No wonder why we all have different problems. Now if I can get the Wordpress to place thumbnails and galleries.

A Clean Creek

Wordpress Version 2.5 is new and a new add galleries feature is built in. I am not the only one having problems with it, but my problem seems unique. The gallery will only add the full size images I upload and will not add the thumbnail, or medium size images it generates. When I select add gallery it adds all the full size images to the post. They are stacked up on each other. I posted these pics with the NextGen Gallery plugin and the Flash Viewer plug-in for that. PicLens plug-in does not add the pictures loaded into the NextGen gallery folder. I get no response in the Wordpress forum to my question. I hope that it gets fixed in the next release. I would like to find a theme that I can post larger images to as this one is limited to 550 pixels wide. This theme is widget ready which I also want. This theme does everything except is to narrow, and I do not know CSS enough to make it wider without messing it up. Anyone Know?

Update May 23, 2008 Anyone having trouble uploading images to Wordpress 2.5 (html error) see if this post on Wordpress.org forums will help. After I changed servers I could not upload to Wordpress image library. The mod_security thing did it for me.

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