Photons Everywhere

I have been using flickr for over one year now and in that time, the only thing I actually do like about it is the community aspect of it.

The problem I have is that you cannot customize your Galleries in the way they look/colors etc. A couple weeks back I signed up for the premium account with Zenfolio ( I don’t mind if you use code M12-9YV-BCG if you decide to signup for yourself, saves you $5).

Zenfolio has premium features, flickr and some other do not have, I potentially can even sell photos through their site making a profit.

So, in a Nutshell, all my photos are once-again at http://mbgaleria.com complementing my blog here at http://baumannphoto.com

P.S.: My wedding photos are on there in the Personal Gallery, feel free to visit. The Gallery is protected but use my last name in lower case as the password

The Gisteq Photo Tracker, a recent present I received was put to the test by me for the first time today.

When I received the device, it seemed very intuitive to use (having only three buttons) and it did not disappoint much.
One a trip today I left the device in the Dashboard of my car for the whole time and it recorded  all the time. When I downloaded the Photos I took today, it warned me once, that there were a couple photos taken when it has no recording real close to it. This happened when the car was parked for some time and the device became idle – no big deal, use the closest time you have as a location and continue. It all worked out very well. The only negative I can report is that, due to the idle timeout of 15 minutes (which can be changed or turned off though) it created 4 trips for my ~200 Mile route. Every time I parked for more than 15 minutes it must have created a new log. I saw on the Gisteq support forum that multiple people requested the ability to merge/split log files so I hope that is coming soon.

Since I shoot in RAW I had to upgrade to the PRO license for $20, the standard one only does JPEG, TIFF etc.

Overall a handy device to have, One I do not have to put onto my cameras hot-shoe.

When downloading the file it writes the location data directly to the RAW files and if you export to flickr, Picasa etc. it will show your Photos on the map.

In two days time I am no longer "free". I admit though that "free" is not the right term, was I ever free?

On Friday at 11am I will get married to my beautiful fiance Allison.
I hope there will be plenty photos (not only wedding photos) to show here.  I am still seriously considering to move my images to zenfolio.com and leave flickr be, maybe just post low-res photos there….that will warrant a seperate post though

Anyway, wish me luck 

A recent stroll to Lake Lanier Islands. The drought last year did not help in getting some nice coastline shots…

Lanier Hedge

My beautiful fiancé, who in two-weeks time will be my wife.

The drought battered Lake Lanier.