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This is the original version of /photos/index.gmi, preserved for completeness (and because some of the questions I ask may still be worth asking). I'll probably leave this page here for ever, but at some point I might break the image links and just leave this gemtext file.
Click here for the current, up-to-date version of this page!
Most of my photos are digital, taken with a Nikon D3300, Olympus TG-5 or, most recently, an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk III.
I occasionally use film, usually Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 400 in a Praktica BX 20. My film is processed and scanned by AG Photographic.
I edit my photos with Darktable.
If you aren't interested in my thoughts/ramblings on how best to display these links and just want to see the photos, scroll down to the next section.
As I mentioned on my home page, I'm not sure the best way to present my photos within the limitations of Gemini. Once I've got a system I'm happy with, I'll upload all of my old photos (as well as all new ones, going forward), so that this site, Tumblr and Flickr all have the full collection. For now, I'll just upload a semi-random selection of my favourite mostly recent-ish photos to test various presentation methods (and hopefully give you an idea of whether you're interested my eclectic style of photography at all).
I want to make it easy for people to subscribe to updates to this page, so will probably use the system described here:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/subscription.gmi
Although I'm not sure whether people (or their Gemini clients) would expect subscribed content to be solely (gem)text files, rather than images? Particularly in non-GUI clients this could be annoying? Also, fancier clients like Lagrange can load images inline, so might be better served by a feed that links directly to the full listing page.
Ideally the date of each post would be the date the photograph was taken, but this might be days, weeks or even months before I get round to editing and uploading them - I'm not sure if clients or aggregators would be confused by this?
On Tumblr, I upload images in bulk but stagger posting automatically to one every couple of days. The bulk upload system is obviously easier, but I'm not sure if this might be annoying for anyone subscribed to the page (or potentially end up spamming aggregators, which I definitely want to avoid).
If you want to link to any of my photos from another site, for now please just link to this page. As I play around with the format of the page, of the images themselves, and of the filesystem layout, I can't guarantee that links to specific photos will remain valid!
I hate the heavily compressed, low resolution images that you get on sites like Instagram and Twitter, but want to stay within the 'small is good' ethos of Gemini, so I'm currently going with the following specs for the photos:
One way of providing some information about the links would be using the 'tags' I already apply on Tumblr:
2021-07-27 10:58 viaduct, river, view, town, bridge, water
2021-04-10 13:50 architecture, modern, design, lamppost, light, building
In this case I don't know the exact date/time the photo was taken:
2018-09-06 film photography, construction, architecture, crane, sky, clouds, film
Alternative: just a date/time and some file info. Less useful than the tags, but also maybe more readable?
2018-09-21 JPG 597.0kB 2000x1500
2018-09-17 JPG 593.4kB 1333x2000
2018-09-16 JPG 630.3kB 2000x1333
Maybe a brief description? These are likely to get repetitive...
Or I could try to categorise the images into sections? I'm not sure that's going to be useful when there's hundreds of photos and you're trying to see what's new though...
Downside to this strategy: is this next one technically a landscape? It's mostly sea and sky and it's in portrait orientation!
Do you prefer any one (or a combination) of the above strategies? If you're a photographer, what do you do on your site?
Feel free to also comment on the photos themselves!
