Fine Art Photography | Nature | Creative & Artistic

From tomorrow till 2 nd Jan I will be away from concrete jungles. No access to blog/mail till 2nd Jan!!

Seasons greetings to all !

- Ganesh H Shankar (Nature Lyrics)

I wanted my website to be very simple and artistic. I did lots of search on available gallery softwares and tried a few like gallery2. While they are feature rich I did not like them for artistic reasons. Initially I chose Photoshop’s gallery creation software and plugged into my web site. It served the purpose of being simple – but not as artisitic. This also gave me a rude surprise when I started looking at my web statistics. Web hits due to search engines were very low. This I realized is due to the fact that web gallery generation had no option to associate information with images. Due to this reason good collection of my images were not indexed by search engines. To solve this I started writing a simple gallery software (in C) to suit my taste – spent a few weekends so far on this. The new gallery design is again static but I can associate information with each image which hopefully search engines with index in future. One advantage of being static gallery is I can automatically generate sitemaps to cover **all** images at my web site easily – not very easy if I use php. I hope to extend my tailor made software to include sitemap creation etc in the near future – for this I will need a few more weekends and late night hours !!

So here goes my partly rennovated site. Slightly more artistic I guess (not satisfied fully though!). I have migrated two galleries (Creative Visions and Personal Favourites) to this scheme. Need to complete the rest. Added some information for a few of images in these two galleries. My gallery software takes an ascii file containing file name of the each file and some associated information. It then automatically creates all gallery structures, html pages etc. I have been entering information related to each of those images. It may take months before I can complete them – what a boring job – yet very important !!

- Ganesh H Shankar (Nature Lyrics)

I spent some time today morning at TG Halli photographying butterflies. Though I went out there with my 600mm f4, I quickly packed it to try some macro images. Light was excellent, so were macro opportunities. Here are couple of images I made today – you may want to click on them to view them at their actual size to really enjoy them.

Other images I made today are at my New Images gallery or in my Macro Gallery

- Ganesh H Shankar (Nature Lyrics)