The death of Amazon as a photo backup solution
Amazon Drive has been an excellent solution for off-site on-line photo backup and storage. It’s part of the Amazon Prime package that also includes free deliver, movie streaming, music etc. At 50-60€ per year for unlimited photo storage it has been a very good deal, a very affordable online storage
Our photo library contains many tens of thousands of pictures on wine, vineyards, wineries, travel, gastronomy, restaurants, food and other subjects, from our travelling across many countries, France, Italy, Sweden, South Africa, Argentina, Uruguay, Croatia, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Moldova, New Zealand, Chile, Austria and many more countries.
Wine Photography – on vineyards, wineries, winemakers, wine cellars and wine regions. Be it beautiful landscapes from some of the world’s most spectacular wine countries or technical photography on the machinery used to make wine or the soil types of the terroir. But also Travel Photography – from many exciting destinations around the world.
Getting a cookie banner and making the site GDPR compliant
This article describes my effort to implement GDPR and appropriate privacy, including the famous “cookie banner”, on our web sites. (Not yet implemented on our
Converting an existing Elementor site to using Theme Styles, hard work but good for performance?
Elementor recently introduced a “global theme” function. This means you can set global defaults for e.g. fonts, sizes, images, colours and other things. This is
Improving the speed and load time of a WordPress site with performance plugins
Web site performance, the speed at which your site shows the pages to the visitor, is extremely important today. It is one of the ranking
Shapes and forms in Oriente in Lisbon
A while back I had a few hours to spend in Lisbon. I was staying at a hotel in the part of the city called
Beautiful drone footage from South Africa
One of our activities is that we organise wine tours, wine tours all over the world. One of our destinations is the South African wine
Christmas present from the Wine Spectator
Just in time for Christmas a little “gift package” arrived in the mail. It was a big white envelope with two copies of the latest
Using Amazon Prime (Premium) “unlimited” for photo backup and archiving
Earlier this year Amazon announced “unlimited storage of images” for subscribers to their Amazon Prime service. (Prime is called “Premium” in some countries.) Amazon Prime
Unlimited photo storage online from Photoshelter (and Amazon)
Organised backup is one of the fundamental, basic, sine qua non, must-have, obligatory things you must have sorted out as a photographer. Was that clear
Featured and interviewed on the Daminion blog
Daminion is a DAM software that I discovered quite a while back following an article I wrote here on DAMs (digital asset management systems). It
Know your rights. Your copyrights
Copyright is one of the basic pillars of any photographer’s business. Without it anyone and everyone could use your pictures without any restraints. Copyright essentially
Is there a future for DAM systems? Yes.
This blog seems to have turned into a discussion forum for DAM (digital asset management system) users. I don’t mind that, since this is an
“How I found my best Digital Asset Management (DAM) system” | Guest Post
Digital Asset Management software selection Mike Briggs is a London based photographer with a particular interest in travel photography, reportage and street photography. Mike needed
What DAM system do you use? (poll)
I thought it would be interesting to see what DAM (Digital Asset Management) system people use, following all the discussion about it here. So here’s
Features and Functions that my Digital Asset Management System (DAM) should have
Here’s a detailed overview of functions and features that I would like to find in a Digital Asset Management System (DAM). This is a follow-up
Trying out Android video editing apps
Early this year I started to use my smartphone to shoot video. I also thought it would be convenient to use a tablet to do
Radically improve your smartphone video photography with a tripod mount
The video quality from smartphones can be greatly enhanced by using a tripod mount / stand, that allows you to put your smartphone in a