Rodent Regatta

that made me like this weblog so much. The more I visit there, the more I think it is the rather unconventional weblog layout that is so appealing.

She’s even nominated.

This morning Dawn shows what can be done with an external flash on her digital camera. It seems to me that capturing the image accurately to begin with will always wins out over the Photoshop treatment later.

Were it not for business interactions that require me to own a computer that runs Windows, I’d be the worst sort of Apple user. You know, one of those who almost makes it a religious experience to talk about their particular Mac and what it does for them.

One compelling reason for the Mac running OS X is the suite of applications that have been developed around personal photo, video and music collections. An iPhoto demonstration simply astounded me. I’ve searched ever since for a way to have similar functionality in Windows. It doesn’t exist.

Apparently, I wasn’t alone in the search. Walter Mossberg’s latest Personal Technology column describes two contenders in the Windows world. He picks Picasa.

Ben and Mena Trott are the brains, hands and doer-bees behind Movable Type. I stumbled into Mena’s weblog about a year ago. Stumbling a bit further, I found Pacific Northwest Journal. It’s a photo album of their tour of the Pacific Northwest, but you’ll miss the photos unless you look up in the right hand corner of the web site and click on ”Photo Album.”

Well, Charleston, SC has now been photographed!

I still have high hopes of learning how to put some photographs on this weblog. It’s one thing to have a photo with an entry, but it must be entirely different to produce a photo journal where 8 to 12 small photos or thumbnails are displayed. Before the first of the year, I hope to do both.

An example of a photo within an entry seems rather easy. Linking from an entry to a separate page of thumbnails or a photo ”gallery” requires something more.

• * UPDATE * * I’ve found something called Gallery. Should I use it or do I simply learn to produce a photo journal using MT? Then, from the authors of MT, is this approach. More research to do!