Archive for December, 2009

Foxycart – amazing eCommerce integration with wordpress

In my last post I mentioned two ways that I was customizing my modularity theme. The first was adding more images to the slideshow on the homepage. This post I want to share an amazing find, called Foxycart. Now at this point you have to remember that my day job is running large scale eCommerce businesses [...]


Solar charger that no travel photographer should live without

Solar charger that no travel photographer should live without

Freeloader Pro is the ultimate solar charger – and I got given this for Christmas and have been testing it out in the sunshine of Cairo. It is awesome. It is capable of powering virtually every electrical device, anywhere in the world, whether on a beach, a mountain, jungle or the Polar ice cap. Freeloader [...]


Adding more slideshow images to your GraphPaperPress Modularity WordPress theme

Adding more slideshow images to your GraphPaperPress Modularity Wordpress theme

You will see that I updated my blog recently to use GraphPaperPress’ modularity theme – following Gavin Gough’s and Matt Brandon’s articles pointing out the options open to photographers with these excellent templates, especially the SEO capabilities and the integration with Photoshelter. The standard out of the box themes work really well, but inevitably I wanted [...]


Kumbh Mela workshop – Amazing trip announced

Kumbh Mela workshop - Amazing trip announced

Gavin Gough and Matt Brandon have just formally released the details for an amazing workshop in April 2010 to the Kumbh Mela festival in india. According to Gavin’s own post . they’ve arranged the trip to “coincide with the most auspicious bathing day, on April 14th, when the river Ganges will be the centre of [...]


Dignity not poverty

Dignity not poverty

Cairo is a bustling, polluted and noisy city with some 26 million inhabitants making it the second most densely populated city in the world (after Mexico City). It is a city of contrasts – one one hand the antiquity, the pyramids, the Nile and the charm of the locals yet on the other hand, the [...]


How not to be a photo tourist

How not to be a photo tourist

I missed a great post from Gavin Gough a few weeks back that really made me stop and think. He explores in his inimitable and passionate way the behavior of photo tourists – you know, the ones that act like modern day trophy hunters, where the destination or the shot is more important than the [...]


The Inspired Eye – latest ebook from David duChemin

The Inspired Eye - latest ebook from David duChemin

David duChemin has just released his latest eBook, The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, Notes on Creativity for Photographers. As the title suggest this is first of a two volume set about the creative process, and as such is not at all like the last 4 eBooks that David has produced. These previous eBooks have focused primalrily [...]


Youth, Wisdom and Great Photos – Eric Ryan Anderson

Youth, Wisdom and Great Photos - Eric Ryan Anderson

Eric Ryan Anderson is a truly interesting man…..and not just because we share a name! He is a commercial photographer base in Brookyln, NY whose work has been published in Italian Vanity Fair, Vogue Hommes, Computer Arts, Sherman’s Travel, Pollstar, ENVY, D Magazine, Dallas Observer and National Geographic Traveler. All well and good you say, [...]