Alex Wilson Photography

Archives for the Month of March, 2008

How an image plays a song

In the PBS Ansel Adams documentary, there was one section that really struck me… remember that Ansel was an accomplished pianist…
John Szarkowski: I’ve tried to explain to myself why it is that there are so many distinguished photographers who are interested in music…. You can make certain parallels between the photographic gray scale and the […]

Hundreds of new pictures

Work on the new gallery went well over the weekend. The interface is starting to come together, and I managed to sort through a huge amount of my images. There are now over 1400 images up in the gallery! This includes a lot of “new” stuff (from the last year, since I never […]

Gallery - feedback, please!

I added about 450 images into the Gallery. Mostly more old images, I’m saving some of the newer ones until I work out the kinks.
With some actual content in there, is much easier to see how the beast behaves. Notably, the performance on pages with lots of images is quite slow. I […]

Gallery…

I’ve (temporarily) got the “old” gallery offline — I’m hoping to have a new gallery up any running later today. I’ll keep the old one and move it to another URL so it’ll still be available once I finish the move.
The new one is going to by quite snazzy, but more of a “traditional” […]