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Re: Election 2008 On TWiT Live

BMMImages — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:20:33 -0000

What are the odds you might rope Dvorak into joining you, maybe even get Adam Curry on, too... a little No Agenda Live? :)

Re: Liana Is In Trouble

BMMImages — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:05:50 -0000

I noticed right after I posted the other day that Scott's also been posting about it, so he's on top of things. We're all hoping for the absolute best in this and that Liana will be up and healthy again soon. She so talented finding work won't be an issue, studio or not.

Re: Liana Is In Trouble

BMMImages — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:40 -0000

Isn't she one of Scott Bourne's friends and protégés? I would think he'd be right on top of this...

In any case, sending her good thoughts from here as well. Here's to hoping they're able to turn it around and that she gets well soon.

Re: Mom Sells Brain Toniq

BMMImages — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:23:29 -0000

Right on, Mom! Psst, are you the son of the Queen Mum? She is sporting some wonderfully royal headwear :)

Re: Speak Softly And Carry A Big Camera Bag

BMMImages — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:22:02 -0000

Leo,

Best of luck on your trip. I'm sure we're all looking forward to the images you're able to make. Count me in as one of the jealous photogs :) I would love to be making your same trip.

I just got back from 10 days in Greece and Italy, and I carried almost as much gear as you did (no computer), and I adore my Tamrac 5577 Expedition 7 SLR Photo Backpack, which is about the same size as the Lowepro. You'll be very glad to have that backpack going through all the various customs checkpoints and airports; comfort is magic for these trips.

Best of luck and have a fantastic and safe trip!

Thanks for everything,

Bob

Re: Ten Years After

BMMImages — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:26:57 -0000

It's often sad when a familiar chapter ends, but when one door closes, go find a window. In the US, we've missed the show for years, but we haven't missed you. Why? Because the new internet media rocks, and we have you every week, ratings and corporate pressures be damned. Long live TWiT, indeed, sir.

Keep up the great work and thanks for all the fish!

Bob

Re: Now With Pictures!

BMMImages — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:56:01 -0000

Leo,

The new site design looks fantastic and, as always, thanks for all the fantastic work you do.

As for SmugMug, I first heard about it from a posting by David Ziser, world famous wedding photog, and gave it the 2-week trial. I liked a lot of what it seemed to offer and some of the sample sites looked really great.

I had two issues that prevented me from signing on and saying good bye to my ShutterFly account, as a pro photographer: One, it was slow to upload and load pages for me from multiple locations. Uploading in the particular was almost unusable, taking somewhere around 25 minutes to upload one 4MB image; whereas I was able to upload the same image to ShutterFly and my .Mac account in about 3 minutes. It basically just hung forever. I tried on multiple occasions over that 2 week trial and found no improvement at all.

The other issue is an issue with me, really. I don't want to be a web programmer, and I don't want to learn CSS and all the things required to really make SmugMug worth the switch for me. I have limited time, and that time is dedicated to making images and focusing (pun intended) on photography. To make a site that looked like the sample ones that look so shiny and nice, you really do have to have some coding knowledge; otherwise, your site is just another SmugMug site with the basic templates. Again, that's more my issue then SmugMug's, although with all the flexibility that's built in, for coding, the tools to customize the page in account settings could be a little more thorough to incorporate some of the great ideas spawned by the community there.

Not bad mouthing it, but I just found that it wasn't for me, given those two issues.

Again, thanks Leo for all the great work and glad to hear/see/read that your Egypt trip was so fantastic!

Best,

bob M.