(Read an English version of this post) 2012 yılında Ayvalık'ta ziyaret ettiğim küçük sabun atölyesi hakkındaki bu gönderi, uzun süredir ilgilenmemi bekliyordu. Araya türlü engeller girdiğinden, gerçekten ilginç olan bu deneyimimi sizlerle paylaşma fırsatını bulamamıştım. O günleri aklımdan geçirdiğimde, iki farklı ziyaretimi dün gibi capcanlı … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2013
Conversations With a Wall
I saw this wall many times, whenever Jan and I took John to see his doctor I would wait in the car as Jan took her father into the office. After the first visit I realized that the wall on the side of the parking lot had a lot to say. On later visits I made sure I had a camera with me, and we carried out conversation with the wall. It had a lot to … [Read more...]
NextGEN Gallery Substitutes
Addendum: I have switched back to NextGEN Gallery since they cleaned the problems and I did not get much support from Nextcellent Gallery developer. For whatever it is worth, I wanted to share this information but the post is still worth reading. NextGEN The Beginning I have been using NextGEN Gallery since its beta versions, I remember its … [Read more...]
Lightroom Folder Structure For Photographs
How Many Lightroom Photo Folders? In the previous post I addressed the storage device options for Lightroom users. This post will touch upon another related but substantially different topic: folder structure for photographs. I will not address the file naming on the fly as the photographs are copied to their destination but focus mainly on the … [Read more...]
Where To Store Lightroom Catalog and Photo Files
Lightroom, the popular software for photographers is essentially a photo-centric database with extensive abilities to accumulate instructions to show the photographs through various adjustments. All of this information is kept in Lightroom database, which we all know as the "catalog." There are a couple of areas not related to photographic … [Read more...]
Soapmakers
(Bu yazıyı Türkçe oku) This is a long overdue post about a small soap making workshop in Ayvalik that I visited back in 2012. Many things interfered and I have not had a chance to share this experience, a very interesting one indeed. Looking back, I remembered the two visits I made to the place and enjoyed remembering everything anew. I had … [Read more...]