A week in Valencia staying at the Hotel RH Riviera on Plaza de Neptune. A very Spanish hotel in a very Spanish part of Spain…hardly any British which was nice, but the few we found were very annoying. First day found a dead dolphin on the beach just outside the hotel.
The holiday included a trip to the Ciudad De Las Atres Y Las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) in Valencia. A great collection of architecture, especially for photography.
Olympus launched the Olympus E-3 pro spec dslr in Istanbul, Turkey
We stopped in the Marmara Pera Luxury Istanbul Hotel and during our stay we ate at Guney Esnaf Restaurant, Can Restaurant, Lala Restaurant & Pudding Shop, Restaurant 360, Galata Tower . We visited the Spice Bazzar, Grand bazaar, Blue Mosque + Hagia Sphia , Boat Jetty – Bosporus Excursion, Limonlu Bahce (lemon Garden) and Banks of Bosporus
A model was arranged and we had a a few pros on hand who had been using the E-3 and were explaining some of their portrait techniques.
Hosts
Mark Thackara, Harjit Sohotey, Greg Connell
Press
Peter Bargh, Ian Burley, Bob Martin, Nigel Atherton, Darren Hartas, Georgie Shevki, Josie Reavely, Terry Hope
I never get much time to spend developing this site, or comment on here. My forum is not attracting any visitors, but i really do not promote it and anyone who drops in is probably too shy to start the ball rolling. It was quiet on ePHOTOzine when we launched. Took ages to get things flowing.
Latest news I’ve added a news section with photography feeds from all over the place. That was fun doing and took me about two hours from start to finish. Quite pleased with that…and it looks neat 🙂
I got to meet and spend time with the fabulous photographer Michael Birt
Hosts
Jim Mackay, Jane Nicholson, John Dickens, Jeremy Martin
Press
Peter Bargh, Debbi Allen, Charlotte Griffiths, Ian Farrell, Jon Adams, Ian Andrews, Andrew James, Angela Nicholson, William Cheung, Darren Harbar
The Flash Centre delivered the latest D-Lite kit to the office in the middle of the week, so we organised a shoot with model, Rachel, for today. It took a few hours to rattle through a series of test pics to get used to the flash system…and mighty fine it is too. It’s the D-Lite 4, a 400Ws kit comprising two heads, stands, softboxes and cases to stash it all in. I’ll be writing the review over the weekend and then will post it on ePHOTOzine. Running my own business never seems to give me breaks…but at least I’m doing what I really enjoy 🙂
Seem to be getting to grips with this.
The site is now on page one for Google.uk and Google.com if someone searches for Bargh
When I set up this blog I thought I’d be disciplined enough to write an entry each day…how wrong I was! I never seem to have time!
And the forums…I’m not sure how to get them going…hopefully they’ll start to become populated. I recall ePHOTOzine being very quiet in the early days too.
I’m stuck with a few database problems now and will take a few weeks of spare moments to crack. I’m trying to get the discography section from html to MYSQL using PHP. Can’t seem to master the design bit here. It looks fine as html but it would be great to call the info from a database.
This bl**dy site is taking longer than I thought. I was warned! Tonight I’ve been working on the index page trying to get the image align correctly. Took far too long! I keep jumping the many hurdles though. I now have a decent understanding of CSS.
My next plan is to create lots of Adsense links in relevant places and add Google Analytics to various pages.
Having spent most of the Christmas holiday working on bargh.co.uk and it’s nearly done. I’ve just got the gallery to finish. I’ve had a fair few challenges on the way but it’s been fun jumping those hurdles.
Just created the discography page for Tangerine Dream. Can’t believe how many albums they have. I had everything up until about 1997..but with all the live stuff and soundtracks since they notch around 60 albums!
Happy New Year
Boxing day was spent shopping in Meadowhall. It was crazily busy. I bought Da Vinci code on PS2 but i have not had chance to play it yet.
Worked out how to add Google Adsense to bargh.co.uk tonight…although it’s now tomorrow…time flies when you’re having fun!
