Efter att ha varit ute och tagit macrobilder en kväll nu i veckan, råkade jag stöta i hop med denna underbara solnedgången. Bilder på sol nedgångar brukar vara lättplockade poäng, så lätta att en del seriösa fotografer anser att man ska undvika att plåta dem. Jag undrar bara varför man ska undvika något som de flesta tycker är snyggt?

//Fredrik

Jag lovar att detta blir sista bilden på vitsippa (för i år), det löftet blir inte svårt att hålla för nu är de nästan helt borta

//Fredrik

Well, I manaded to get a new picture on the blogg. But not quite the way I would have loked to do it: it only appears to be on the blogg, but it is in reality hosted somewhere entirely different. Granted, I own the server the picture is on, but it feels ever so slightly wrong transfering the picture to my server, and then linking to it from inside WordPress.

Ah well, it works at least. But whether or not my uploading problems persist remains to be seen, as does whether or not I will keep on blogging here if I must host the pictures somewhere else.

A long time has passed since I last tried uploading a picture to this blogg, and I feel slightly ill at ease over it.  A blogg is meant to attract readers (or in our case viewers) by being updated on a regular basis, and I have failed the viewers on this point.

Yet, I must fail the viewers once again. And probably for a good long time to come. I was out earlier today, taking pictures for the sole purpose of uploading at least one here, and found no problem with transfering the pictures to my laptop, editing the selected picture was a breeze (even if I did end up merging two separate exposures into one). Saving the two-layer XCF as a PNG is a trivial matter with GIMP.

But when the time comes to upload the picture to WordPress, I find myself with a problem I don’t seem to be able to overcome. I have now tried three times, and each time Firefox has crashed. No explanation or error messages, just suddenly not ‘there’… Although I cannot claim to know much about the inner workings of Firefox, I do wonder if the new GUI WordPress has is not to blame for part of this unwanted behaviour.

I guess the new GUI we have to use to upload pictures is meant to be ‘user-friendly’ but for me it turns out to be most unfriendly.

Before anyone tells me to upgrade to the latest Flash, I wish to point out that I did just that before posting my previous entry. As far as I am concerned, I would be better off with a GUI built with only HTML.

Gullvivor är ganska svåra att ta bra bilder på, blomkronans tubform och formen på blommans foder gör inte saken lättare. Efter att ha krupit runt på alla fyra en bra stund lyckades jag tillslut få denna bilden.

//Fredrik

Denna veckan var det svårt att välja bild, jag hade 4 - 5 bra kandidater att välja mellan, men till slut blev det än en bild på vitsippor. Bilden är inte den traditionella vitsippebilden, det kanske är därför jag föll för den, trots att jag hade beslutat mig för att inte lägga upp än en vitsippa.

Vill ni se fler av mina vitsippor se:

Vitsippor - Anemone nemorosa (northandsouth.se)

En kvällstur. (blogg)

//Fredrik

När jag såg denna bilden kom jag att tänka på att vi inte hade någon bra bild till veckans tema på photofriday.com här på N&S. Men nu har vi det

//Fredrik

Jag valde denna bilden i från dagens skörd av bilder från alnarpsparken. Parken är full av vitsippor vilket man kan se ganska bar på denna bilden. Jag vet inte hur det är för er men för mig symboliserar vitsippan den riktiga våren. Om en månad är allt grönt ute

//Fredrik

I was going to add a gorgeous picture of Lövånger church that i have, but found that I cannot upload it. WordPress have changed the user interface, and neither Firefox nor Konqueror will upload a picture.

When I first tried Firefox would randomly crash, or apparently upload the picture but not get past a text saying “Crunching”. Now that I updated to the latest version of Flash I don’t even get that far… It seems the only way I can get a picture into a post is by hosting it elsewhere first. But in my mind that removes the incentive to use WordPress in the first place: I have my own server, so I can easily host the images somewhere, but why then bother with WordPress?

Whatever comes of this, it seems that it will be some time before I can upload a picture again.

Oh, and before anybody tells me to use Internet Explorer to upload my pictures: I use Linux. The newest version of IE that I have access to at home is the one that came with Windows 98. I don’t think I can update that to the latest version of Flash. I could obviously walk off to a neighbour and ask to borrow his/her computer, but that would make the idea of hosting my own blogg much more appealing.