RedBubble Find: Urban Flower by srinivas

I guess the main reason I really like this shot is that it reminds me so much of my photograph Communication.

Urban Flower by srinivas

RedBubble Art Manager for Windows v1.7.0.0 Released

I've just uploaded a new version of my RedBubble art manager application (this is v1.7.0.0). You can get it from here.

This release makes a change to the work promotion dialog that lets you specify where you want the promotion code to link to. Before it would only link to the normal view page for a work. Now, as an option, you can link directly to the purchase page for the work:

The difference is as follows. If you click on the following image you'll get the normal view page:

whereas with the promotion code set to link to the buy page, you'll get this:

Before anyone asks: no, sorry, I can't have it so that you can specify exactly which product is linked to when going to the buy page.

RedBubble Find: Escaping Reality by Geraldine Lefoe

Escaping Reality by Geraldine Lefoe

Calendar: Landscapes

My third RedBubble calendar. This time based around some of my landscapes:

RedBubble Find: The Humble Humber by Paul Hutchings

The Humble Humber by Paul Hutchings

Calendar: Against the Sky

My second RedBubble calendar. This time based on my Against the Sky series of photographs:

RedBubble Find: Holy smoke by Anthony Begovic

Holy smoke by Anthony Begovic

RedBubble Find: Disconnected by Adriana Glackin

Disconnected by Adriana Glackin

Lubitel at Belton House

One last set of photographs from my recently developed film from by Lubitel.

This time it's four images taken during a recent visit to Belton House:

Lubitel in Norfolk

Some more images from my recently developed film from by Lubitel. This time three shots taken during my holiday in Norfolk:

Lubitel at Rutland Water

During a recent trip to Rutland Water I took along my Lubitel 166B as well as my EOS 400D.

Last week my friendly Scottish Landscape Photographer was kind enough to process and scan the film for me and I've started to process the results. Here are the images I took while on the trip mentioned above:

Calendar: Black and White Photography

Now that RedBubble have calendars available to the public I've decided to make one available: Black and White Photography by Dave Pearson.

RedBubble Find: Sidewalk Love by Michael Douglass

Your immediate thought might be that the space should be in front of the woman, not behind. But look closer at the window...

Sidewalk Love by Michael Douglass.

Four Views of Belton House

This afternoon we went for a wander around the grounds of Belton House. As always, I had my camera with me:

Books

Last night I was messing about with books and my camera:

RedBubble Find: Ullswater Shoreline by Mike Finley

Ullswater Shoreline by Mike Finley

CoolIris with RedBubble's Featured Works

Having started playing with CoolIris yesterday and having had some success, and with the thread that started this all off in the first place in mind, I thought it might be fun to mock up how things might look if RedBubble provided a feed that CoolIris could use.

So, I fired up GNU emacs and knocked out a quick and dirty variation on getrbart that created a "Media RSS" feed for the first 10 pages of the featured pages. The result looks like this:

If you have Cooliris installed in your browser you can see what the result looks like by visiting this page and kicking off CoolIris.

Thanks go to Bobbie for helping to test it.

Rutland Water South Shore

The final set of photographs from last week. After spending most of the day messing about on the water we took a drive round to the south shore of Rutland Water and, while I was there, I took a small set of photographs:

South Shore Rocks

South Shore

Tower

CoolIris with www.davep.org

Having previously added CoolIris support to my RedBubble wrapper site I decided to go ahead and add it to my main photography site. Because of the way things work over there it took a little more effort but, now, I've got it working:

For those interested in the technical details: I obviously didn't want to create one honking great RSS feed of every photograph on my site, that'd be far too much data moving around all in one go. Thankfully the advanced developer documentation (note: no direct link to the documentation in question — fancy JS tricks are fun for some things but for documentation? Meh!) points out that a feed file can have next and previous links so I could create a feed for each individual album and they could all point to the previous or next albums.

The nice thing about this is when you're viewing an album and you hit the CoolIris button in your toolbar you're taken to the part of the wall that's displaying those images. Then, as you move about, the wall grows in the direction you're moving in, following those previous and next links.

I'm now toying with the idea of adding a MediaRSS feed generator tool to RBArtMan. Extra (X)HTML hacking would be needed to make it all work on people's own sites but it would mean that most of the grunt work would be done for them. I'm not making any promises, it's all down to available time.

Rutland Watersports

Last Friday, the day after getting back from camping in Norfolk, we all headed out to Rutland Water with some kayaks and spent a large part of the day messing about on the reservoir.

Before I got wet I took some photographs around the shore: Rutland Watersports.