Sublime Photo - Site Revisions

-most recent updates first-

August 4, 2008

• Added all four 2008 fireworks galleries.
• Added a "quick index" for the main gallery page to assist in finding certain galleries and changed the descriptive header.

July 7, 2008

• My server transition seems to be complete!
• Updated my gallery info page to reflect the new server situation.
• Got rid of the transitioning notice on my gallery page.
• Added final day entry on the Hawaii Blog.
• Added a "proper" link to the blog on my gallery page.
• For now www.mikemander.com will redirect to www.sublimephoto.com - may have some other non-image content coming in the future to use on mikemander.com. Same goes for www.redshiftimaging.com - some future content for that domain is planned as well! Stay tuned...

June 4, 2008

• Finally got my Hawaii 2008 blog up and running!

June 4, 2008

• Galleries should all be updated on mikemander.com. Put a note to that effect on the gallery page.
• Noted my upcoming Hawaii trip blog on the gallery page.

May 28, 2008

• Added a note on the gallery page about the revisions being made to www.sublimephoto.com and www.mikemander.com.
• Added a link on the gallery page, back to the old sublimephoto.com site on the old server.

May 22, 2008

• Added a large number of galleries shot with the new Fuji S100fs and one from the F100fd.

May 19, 2008

• Added a link to my father's memorial page.

May 10, 2008

• Added some more photos on the memorial image gallery.

May 5, 2008

• Added the memorial page for my mother, Ingrid, who passed away April 7th.

February 24, 2008

• Added two UBC galleries.

December 29, 2007

• Massive update of recent works galleries, shot from September through November 2007.

August 19, 2007

• Okay, so 516 images really is rather a lot! Added a "highlights" gallery with only 60 selected images, for those without the inclination, the time, or the Internet connection speed to view so many shots.

August 12, 2007

• Finally finished my Southwest 2007 galleries! A huge update of 11 galleries totaling over 500 images! Decided to make a totally separate page dedicated to that last big trip.

August 5, 2007

• Added this year's Celebration of Light fireworks galleries.

July 8, 2007

• Added "Horseshoe Bend & Antelope Canyon" gallery.

June 16, 2007

• Okay, so the image "loading" indicator was a bit garish in my new galleries. Got tired of it and made a more subtle one. Actually, main reason is I needed a proper colour background for it to blend and only could find a nice white background version before (and was too lazy to make one from scratch!), but I just came across a nifty page that will generate a loading indicator based on your choice for foreground and background colour. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it! Hope the new one is easier on the eyes...

June 11, 2007

• Added "The Nightmare that is Cambie" gallery.

June 11, 2007

• Revised the Lightroom web gallery code and re-output all the new galleries again! The new code should be a little more compatible across different browsers and the output html and javascript code is a little more sophisticated.

June 3, 2007

• Tested new galleries with a variety of Mac and Windows browsers and expanded on browser compatibility information in the gallery information pages.
• Made the new gallery info page clearer and more concise - hopefully!

June 2, 2007

• Added the Spring in Vancouver gallery.
• Added the Grand Canyon and Lee's Ferry gallery.

May 27, 2007

• Massive change to all the new galleries from my recent southwest trip. Now using a new customized template that does not use Flash, rather javascript so it should be compatible with more people's computers. New galleries again offer the ability to pull up a large version of the image and one can still use the keyboard to move between images. New galleries darken the background and offer nice cross-fade transitions.

May 21, 2007

• Added Las Vegas and Death Valley galleries.

May 20, 2007

• Added www.clustrmaps.com counter link to navigation frame and visible map links to the info page.
• Revised Lightroom gallery template and updated Utah 2007 galleries.
• Added Bryce Canyon Gallery.

April 29, 2007

• Revised gallery info text slightly.

April 23, 2007

• Added two gallery links from my March 2007 trip to the Gallery Page.
• Revised Gallery Info page with description of controls in the new Adobe Lightroom galleries.

April 1, 2007

• Added a link to my PMA2007 / Utah blog (hosted by the Beau Photo Supplies website) on my gallery page.

February 11, 2007

• A new year! Hope it is a happy one for you!
• Added Burnaby Lake & Burnaby Mtn. Gallery.

November 23, 2006

• Removed note about my gallery server maintenance. I now have a small, energy efficient server (hopefully) meeting my needs!

November 22, 2006

• Added note about my gallery server maintenance shutdown on the main gallery page.

October 8, 2006

• Reorganized the galleries and put all 2005 photos into an "Images of 2005" page. The main gallery page was getting to be rather long!
• Revised somewhat inconsistent copyright info.
• Updated "What's in my camera bag" page.

October 7, 2006

• Added the Fort Casey and Lighthouse Park galleries.
• Added two galleries of my 2006 wall and desk calendars.

August 6, 2006

• Added the Celebration of Light fireworks gallery.

July 30, 2006

• Added all the Oregon 2006 galleries.

July 3, 2006

• Added three new galleries... one with macro shots at UBC and two new infrared galleries.
• Updated equipment list to indicate new camera gear (EOS-30D and 20D IR).

June 10, 2006

• Added first EOS-20D infrared gallery.

June 7, 2006

• Added "Puppies" gallery.

April 29, 2006

• Added Boundary Bay gallery.

April 5, 2006

• Added the two "Stanley Park Views" galleries.

March 30, 2006

• Fine-tuned the "Julia at Lighthouse Park" gallery.

March 28, 2006

• Added the "Julia at Lighthouse Park" gallery.

March 12, 2006

• Added the Reifel Island - March 11th gallery.
• Oops, fixed several dates on this page that said 2005 by accident.

February 25, 2006

• Added an image and also deleted one in the False Creek gallery. Still 12 images in total.

February 21, 2006

• Passed the 10,000 visit milestone to my website homepage today. Cool!

February 19, 2006

• Added the False Creek gallery, the first of 2006!

November 27, 2005

• Added a Windows Media version of the Fog Time Lapse movie and updated the gallery page to mention this.
• Modified my equipment pages to reflect my updated lens selection.

November 26, 2005

• Added Burnaby Mtn. Park Fog gallery.
• Since some people don't seem to "get" the magnifier button in the galleries, I have modified the graphic with a "+" symbol to be more explicit about its function and updated the most recent galleries with the new button as well as the gallery navigation info page as well.

October 11, 2005

• Specified Apple Quicktime 7.0 in the Additional Media page for New Mexico 2005. The quality and size of the movie clips are really so much better in Quicktime 7 (compared to earlier versions) that I am not wanting to recompress and compromise. I may decide to put different versions online in the future with less efficient but more compatible encoding for those with older versions of Quicktime...

October 10, 2005

• Finalized my main New Mexico 2005 gallery. A total of 132 images - 11 pages of thumbnails.
• Added Location Notes - Additional Galleries & Media page for New Mexico 2005. Added numerous time-lapse movies, a QTVR of White Sands as well as a panoramic gallery. Location Notes include links to official park websites and direct links to my gallery pages that have the corresponding images. New Mexico 2005 is now complete! I think...

October 9, 2005

• Added another page of images, mostly from Mesa Verde, Dead Horse Point State Park and one from Arches.

October 6, 2005

• Added more images of the Aztec Ruins to New Mexico Gallery... now 120 images total. Slowly getting there...

October 5, 2005

• Added more to the New Mexico Gallery, now at 108 images. Some more to come yet!

October 3, 2005

• Added another dozen images to the New Mexico 2005 gallery.

October 2, 2005

• Added preliminary New Mexico 2005 gallery at 84 images strong.

September 5, 2005

• Updated Pitt Lake gallery, renamed to "Labour Day Weekend" and added images from Sunday and Monday as well.
• Updated "What's in my camera bag" page to mention my new 400mm lens. Deleted mention of the CoolPix 5400 since I have sold it. In the market for a new digital IR camera now!
• Updated various facts on my Equipment and Bio pages.

September 3, 2005

• Added the Pitt Lake gallery.

August 3, 2005

• On the gallery page, I clarified the reasons why DRAO's main dish is missing its receiver.

August 1, 2005

• Added the "Penticton - July 31, 2005" gallery.

June 26, 2005

• Changed gallery layout for main Death Valley Bloom gallery.
• Added common and Latin names for any flora and fauna I was able to identify in the Death Valley Bloom gallery. Please email me if you note any errors or can identify something that I didn't!

May 29, 2005

• Finished the "Death Valley Bloom" main image gallery.
• Updated the Panoramic Gallery.
• Added the Stitched Panoramic Gallery.
• Modified my remote gallery server to use port 8008 rather than port 233. Port 8008 is considered a standard alternative webserver port and I'm hoping this might prevent the problems that a few people (with overly-cautious firewalls) are having when accessing my galleries. If you are now having problems accessing my galleries, please hit the "refresh" button on your browser! Most likely your browser has cached an older page that still refers to the now inactive port 233 gallery.
• Updated the gallery info page with mention of this port 8008 switch.

May 24, 2005

• Added preliminary gallery "Death Valley Bloom - April 2005" along with a preliminary panoramic gallery from the trip as well.

May 15, 2005

• Added gallery "Julia, Janina (and Luna too)".
• Added gallery "Hannah & Christopher".
• Added note to gallery info page regarding my current gallery color management issues.

March 16, 2005

• Added two more pages of images to the Florida 2005 gallery - primarily of Miami South Beach and Kennedy Space Center.
• Removed several images but Florida gallery is now 144 strong - 12 pages worth!

March 6, 2005

• Added my huge Florida Everglades & Keys gallery.
• Reorganized my gallery pages: there is now a main page with 2005 galleries, a link back to a page with all my 2004 galleries and a link to my calendar galleries.
• Added a Gallery Navigation & Information page and removed the "remote server" notices that were cluttering the gallery page.
• Removed all my "Coming Soon" links. Ahem... they have been coming soon for nearly a year now! I will add them back as I complete them.
• Updated the Info page and revised the copyright notice.
• Updated the Prints page with the revised copyright notice.
• Added a direct link to a pop-up copyright notice right on the home page.

January 9, 2005

• Added mention of my new Sigma 15mm fisheye lens in the equipment pages.

January 4, 2005

• Added Brackendale Bald Eagles gallery.

January 2, 2005

• Happy New Year!
• Updated my Equipment and Bio pages to reflect my transition to 100% digital photography.

December 30, 2004

• Added belated Season's Greetings animation.

December 26, 2004

• Fixed embedded profile problem with calendar gallery index thumbnails.

December 25, 2004

• Season's Greetings!
• Added Christmas Tree Abstracts gallery.

November 27, 2004

• Added my 2005 calendar gallery along with purchase information and updated my gallery page.
• Updated my Equipment page to indicate my transition to 100% digital photography.

October 31, 2004

• Happy Halloween!
• Added October 27th lunar eclipse gallery.
• Added one more page of images (12 more) to the Utah 2004 gallery.
• Embedded ICC profiles in all navigation bar slices. Hopefully this will correct visible seams on some displays.

October 25, 2004

• Added titles and location information to the images in the Utah 2004 gallery.

October 24, 2004

• Updated info page to remove traveling note.
• Added 7 pages of images from the Utah 2004 trip shot with the EOS-20D. Still need to add image titles!

October 3, 2004

• Please note: I will be away on a photo trip to the southwestern U.S. until October 18th and won't be answering any emails until I return.
• Updated info page with above message as well.

August 15, 2004

• Fixed a few broken links on the Links page.
• Not much time to add more galleries as I am moving. Look for updates in September...

July 18, 2004

• If you are having gallery problems, please REFRESH the page in your browser. I noticed yet another glitch with my IP redirection service. Fixed recent gallery links again - hopefully it will last for a while now!
• Added info to this effect to my alternate server notice.
• Added the "What's in my camera bag?" page.
• Added link to my dad's website finally!

July 15, 2004

• Added another gallery with one page of digital infrared images to my Oregon and California 2004 gallery.

July 14, 2004

• Things seem to be resolving again, so I've put the gallery links back to normal now.

July 13, 2004

• Apparently my IP redirection service was/is suffering a DDOS attack! Therefore my remotely hosted galleries are not resolving properly. I have temporarily substituted in actual numeric IP addresses until things have stabilized.

July 11, 2004

• Added a bunch more images to my Oregon & California gallery.

July 8, 2004

• Simplified the remote gallery info text and new gallery description slightly.

July 7, 2004

• Added the new Oregon & California - June 2004 Recent Works gallery. So far the image titles are bland and generic. This will be fixed in the future.

June 6, 2004

• Updated my Recent Works gallery with some shots taken from the east side of Pitt River today.
• Made note in my Equipment page that some images in Recent Works could also be infrared shots taken with my CoolPix 5400.

June 4, 2004

• Fixed a few typos and a couple of awkward sentences in my Equipment page and Bio page.
• Fixed many links on my Links page - most did not open in a new blank frame - oops!

May 30, 2004

• Changed the directory structure of the gallery area to allow easier future growth and better "backing out" of sub-galleries to previous pages. The change is that in the Calendar galleries, for example, you now have a "Last Gallery page" link instead of a "Main Gallery page" link. No other visible change to the layout though - I think!

May 29, 2004

• Added "waiting for the light" images to the Bio page.
• Added revision notice and copyright to bottom of home page.
• Changed some text and copyright information in the Prints and Info pages.
• Added some content bookmarks in the equipment page to move around it more easily.

May 25, 2004

• Added huge Calendar Gallery with archive of calendar images from 2001-2004.
• Offloaded Recent Works Gallery to my redshiftimaging server in order to facilitate updates and reduce the size of the website on my domain hosting server.
• Updated Recent Works with images from Reifel Island Bird Sanctuary, Stanley Park and Deception Pass State Park in Washington state.
• Changed around the Information page somewhat.
• Added a Digital Photography section in my Equipment page.
• Added some entries in the Links page.
• Added a few links to the Bio page.

May 17, 2004

• Launch of this brand-new site! Out with the old and in with the new... still lots more work to do!

Mike Mander, May 2004

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