Upgraded website, Flickr and Picasa Album

Posted on December 10, 2008

The reason for my long absence writing on my blog was due to me upgrading my website

and starting work on my Flickr and Picasa photos albums. Both the Flickr and the Picasa albums  run under the username “hawaiiancanoes”. The entire process of tending to those 3 sites at the same time while still carrying on building models was taking the better of a 3 months period during which I had to sort out literally thousands of pictures and write tens of captions. Some people who want to create a website complain of the lack of professional photos to embellish or illustrate their site. I had fantastic pictures, but before I could make use of them I had to sort them out and file them according to subject matter. So here I was, creating sets and albums with piles of  photos before I could create sets and albums on Flickr.  As for the caption to the images on the website or Flickr, some were easy to write while others required me to dig into nautical dictionaries to find out again what is the maritime word for “ steps” on a ship. I have to admit that writing good captions is a difficult exercise. All this work led me to forgo my yearly participation at the 2008 Hawaiian Juried Woodshow, but I tried somehow to make up for my absence to

this art show by illustrating the exhibited work of my colleagues on Flickr.

There are still bugs to be sorted out on my website and photos to be added on Flickr,

the work is never finished, but at least, for now, I can start spending most of my time

researching and building canoes that have sailed on all the corners of the Pacific.