Predictably, this photo was taken with the previous photo, at Piha.What I wanted to write about, though, is something entirely geeky - about uploading photos. I have been using Picasa (and I pay for it, albeit a trivial amount of 5 USD a year) but I have been disappointed by a few things:
1. Picasa doesn't let you show photos on backgrounds other than white, and
2. Picasa only shows 60% quality JPEG when viewed by any other way than 'download'.
Either of those things would make me consider the service broken. I still do intend to use it for a full-image store, although I'm not entirely sure why (other than my undying loyalty to Picasa, the desktop application).
To get around the first problem, I've created this blog. That was one of the main reasons I created it. To get around the second problem, I've created an Amazon S3 account (1), created a web-gallery (2) from Lightroom, uploaded it using S3Fox (3) from Firefox (4) which is not my usual browser.
So that's four whole new things that I need to do to 'publish' my photos. I hope this works out well. The photo above is hosted on Amazon. For comparison, here's the same photo from Picasa.
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