Comment by techterrier

5 days ago

Good idea, I did just such a thing myself, deleting all my socials and only posting my photos to my own website: https://dombarker.co.uk/

Was fun to make 'just a website' for a change too.

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WickyNilliams  5 days ago

Beautiful photos! And the site is very nice looking too .

Can I ask what you do wrt the photo storage for your site? I'm looking to get back into photography and don't use Instagram etc, so want somewhere to post. Wondering how I might set up my own site for this purpose. Thanks

  • techterrier  5 days ago

    thank you very much :)

    I use google cloud buckets for the raw storage, and then Imagekit as a CDN / transform layer (to prevent direct access and to crop/resize etc).

    the rest of if it is a nextjs app router jobby. All your regular LLM's will be able to generate one of these for you quite straightfowardly

72deluxe  5 days ago

I have done the same, but your website is really nice! And your photos are lovely. I like how you've indicated which cameras and gear you use for certain trips.

That 600mm Sony lens must be fun to carry around. I used to have a Tamron 150-600mm lens for my Nikon, but my wife said it looked ridiculous, so I got rid of it. So now I'm mostly on M43 for portability.

  • techterrier  5 days ago

    I dont think its too bad! I have it on a peak design strap and have it on my back diagonally. It probably does look ridiculous, but im sure them camo outfit is just as bad as the camera!

    Yes the OM-System stuff is awesome, i think its the only thing that would tempt me away from Sony

    the camera data is all in the EXIF so it was pretty easy to do. Good olde CRUD apps are a joy to build now!

MrDOS  4 days ago

Great photos. I love your Norfolk robins. I also love that you've taken the time to set up browsing by species!

If you're at all interested in feedback:

- When scrolling through a gallery grid, the multiple fixed-position headers eat up an awful lot of screen real estate. On my MacBook Air (effectively 1280x800), I can only see one full row of photos at a time. Feels very cramped.

- Navigating to a photo from a gallery and then hitting my browser's “Back” button takes me back to the “Report” tab on the galley, not the photo grid. Makes gallery browsing pretty difficult.

- Maybe both of these problems could be ameliorated by making gallery photos open in the lightbox, rather than shunting you directly to their pages. Although...

- Items in a gallery's slideshow/lightbox display don't have a link to their photo pages. Maybe the name of the photo could link to its page?

  • techterrier  4 days ago

    im very interested, thanks so much!

    - gallery photos now open in lightbox

    - gallery lightbox has view photo button

    todo: make fixed header a bit shorter

    • MrDOS  4 days ago

      Wow, cool – IMO, the galleries are so much easier to browse now.

      I'm not sure if selling prints is a priority for you, but it would be rad if you could do on-demand prints. In the meantime, I'll e-mail you about a couple :)

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Klonoar  5 days ago

I run something similar, ish: https://photos.rymc.io/

I still have an account or two elsewhere, but all photos get posted here then linked there with decent open graph previews.

  • alfirous  4 days ago

    Speaking of open graph, your index doesn't have it when I bookmark using Raindrop.

    • Klonoar  3 days ago

      As in rymc.io, or the index of photos.rymc.io?

      I have it earmarked to get around to a generic OG preview for the root of photos.rymc.io, it's just a time issue - been pretty busy lately with racing.

frogulis  5 days ago

Gorgeous photos. One point of feedback: I went to your shop to view prints, and while it was nice to see them "in situ", I couldn't see the actual images because of how they small they were in frame!

  • techterrier  5 days ago

    oh wow! thanks for checking at letting me know, i think you are the first vistior to a shop page in GA!

alfirous  4 days ago

Great photos and I like how you show metadata, remind me of Flickr.

I think photography is one of the things that better to have website than use social media like Instagram. You can display your photos however you like and not to worry about platform limitations.

Edit: Do you use CMS?