Denis' Place

It has been a while since I wrote anything here or even added new photos to my photo gallery. Lately I have realized that none of the photos in the gallery – Coppermine Gallery – are being indexed by Google, or anyone else for that matter whereas the photos on the static pages are right up there in the results so I am going to revert, for all new photos, to static pages again.

This has an added benefit of making me work on designing and creating web pages again, something I have got very rusty on.

That’s where the “waking up my brain” comes in – I need to refresh my knowledge and update myself on the newer stuff before I start making new web pages.

Last year I did a refresh of the WebTech University site but other than that, nothing.

So now I’m busy reading, and reading.

You never know when one of your photos might end up on a postage stamp.

A photo I took of the Auckland Harbour Bridge back in 1961 has been selected for the $1.50 stamp in the Auckland Harbour Bridge 50th Anniversary set.

You can see them here at NZ Post.

You will need to click through “The Sets” a couple of times to see a larger version.

I’ve not been well this past week so since I was feeling a bit better today I worked on getting some of the photos I took on a visit to the Matakohe Kauri Museum on September 20th up on my 35SouthOnLine site.

It was a difficult place inside the museum to take photos because of the variety of lighting. There was a mixture of incandescent, fluorescent, and daylight as you can see in some of the photos.

The museum website is at http://www.kauri-museum.com/

The previous Haruru Falls photos in the Gallery were taken with my Panasonic FZ20 camera in July 2005. Since then I have a new camera but haven’t visited Haruru Falls with it until the other day when there was a nice sunny day for a change after all the very wet weather we have been having here in New Zealand. A good time to photograph waterfalls.

The photos start here http://www.deniswilford.com/pg/displayimage.php?pos=-657. These newer photos are viewable in a 1200 pixel size by clicking on the displayed photo. Enjoy.

So I don’t update this site as often as I should….

I’ve added a few photos from my Auckland visit last December, yes, I took my time adding them. The ones I added today are of my old high school – Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Rd, Auckland.

The majestic original building looks the same but there have been a lot of new buildings added to the school since I attended way back in the 1950s.

These photos are in the Auckland album here.

I’ve also recently added new photos of the Stone Store Basin to the other gallery over at 35SouthOnline.

We’ve had 7 continuous days of rain here – which is unusual for us. No, it has nothing to do with climate change, just a warm moist air stream from the tropics which has stayed around longer than normal.

That gave me the chance to revisit Rainbow Falls at Kerikeri and take some new photos of the falls in bad weather. You can see them here as additions to the Kerikeri photo gallery at http://35southonline.com/35s/pg/thumbnails.php?album=2

I’ve been busy lately moving web sites. After moving this site to Lunarpages, as mentioned in my previous post, a few days ago I moved WebTech U to DowntownHost.com

Both this site and WebTech U were sharing a server but I thought it was a good idea to have them on separate hosts, partly so I could see which one was the better over a period of time, and also if one server was out for an extended period of time I could swap web sites between the two hosts.

Then of course right on top of this out came an upgrade to the Wordpress Blog software – which I have now done.

Then to add more to the mix, my washing machine died slowly so I had to get a new one a few weeks ago, and today my refrigerator stopped working. Hopefully the problem seems to be the thermostat so the repair shouldn’t be too expensive or take too long.

I’ve moved this site from AussieHQ to Lunarpages today and it all went quite painlessly. The only changes I needed to do to any files were the database info for the Coppermine Photo Gallery and this Wordpress Blog.

To allow for the overlap between the old host and the new host as the Domain Name Servers updated around the world I set up mail forwarding on my email addresses to my other domain of 35SouthOnline.com so any emails that went to the old site could still be collected by me after I began to access the new location.

Everything has worked very smoothly.

I’ve started another photo website over at http://www.35southonline.com/ specifically for displaying photographs of Northland, New Zealand.

This is a beautiful and interesting part of New Zealand and deserves its own photo site rather than sharing with the rest of New Zealand and other items that are on this site.

There is not that much there yet but I’ll be steadily adding more photos so keep checking there, and here also of course.

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