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.
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I am just a woodworker.
Posted on December 18, 2007
My close friend Keith C. from Guernsey, Channel Islands, told me one day that a good way to avoid being asked to many questions about one’s profession or business is simply to tell people that I am a truck driver and that this is what I do for a living.. Here in Hawaii I have taken habit of saying “I am a woodworker” interesting…Because you see when I say what I am really doing I am afraid to put most people into the embarrassing situation of either having to false praise me for what they think are well made toys, or be at a loss of words when I mention to them the price of those so called toys. Many understand that it takes hours, days, weeks or months to make those canoe models, and few realize that it requires in depth knowledge of the craft or canoe in order to be able to execute a scale model of it. Somehow I feel uneasy talking about my work and prefer the “work” to talk on my behalf. You see, this way I do not inconvenience those who are not interested in canoe models, while still leaving it to admirers and collectors to take pleasure in it. I am just a woodworker whose work will talk well beyond me writing this blog
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