Several people during the last months asked me to modify the Camera Obscura page layout.
The current improvements includes: lighter page backround for easy reading, no tree photo header, bigger comments fonts, less evident meta and navigations controls, faster pages.
During the last year I worked extensively on repeated patterns in architecture.
I’m finally happy to announce that a new album featuring some image from the series Infinite Palaces and Buildings has been recently added to the gallery.
Description and artistic statement coming soon.
I finally had some time to restyle the photo home page.
Now it display additional information about every section of the site, a random picture from the gallery, the last entry in the photoblog and the first picture attached to the last Camera Obscura article. Additionally the new photo home page include directly the most recent activities in the News, Photoblog and Camera Obscura section of the site.
Furthermore all the feeds (excluding users comments) of the different section of the site are aggregated using a Yahoo Pipe and Feedburner, in this way you can subscribe to a unique photo feed to stay up to date with everything new on Fabiano Busdraghi photography page.
I have implemented a multilingual blogging system on Camera Obscura. For the moment only few articles are translated in English (I will shortly translate something in French and Spanish too). If you like Camera Obscura and you want to contribute translating any article, please send me a mail.
I was still experiencing terrible performances on the photoblog and I also had some theme problem, thus I spent the last few days working on it.
I updated Yapb, the really nice plugins used to convert WordPress into a complete photoblog system. This solved all the performance issues: the site now is really faster, especially showing thumbnails.
I also wrote a new theme. Light and minimalistic, halfway between the Carbon theme of the Gallery and Camera Obscura. Thanks to this update, after some weeks down, the tag navigation system is finally back again and full working.
I added a new interesting feature to Camera Obscura: each article can now be downloaded as a pdf file for printing and offline reading.
The first day there was some problems whit attached images, but now everything runs fine.
I was experiencing some performance problems with my photoblog. Posts and archives loaded too slowly and the home page was quite long.
Today I switched to a new theme with fast load of thumbnails and only one photo per page. In this way the daily picture is bigger and has more visibility in the photoblog home page. If you still experience some problems please let me know.
Camera Obscura was born as a blog dedicated to alternative techniques and historical process. After some months of writing I felt uncomfortable with these restrictions, there are so many things to say about aesthetics, contemporary photography, artists, digital techniques and so on. I thought to the possibility to open a new blog, but finally I just started writing adding some new categories and using extensively the tag structure.
I hope you will enjoy the new contents on my photographic blog!