lnrwildphoto- wildlife photography website

Rob Chace · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 05:38 PM

Hi all,
Have had a website for a while now & new material is always being added. I have started a reviews section of some of the gear i use, which may help some of you decide on your next purchase. I have tried to include all the info that i think is of interest including weight & dimensions where necessary & real world pros & cons.
There is also a galleries of my latest work & archived Gallery.
I may also start a blog when i can find anything interesting to talk about, including tips & tricks of the trade.
Please have a look & bookmark for future reference. Any comments, good or bad can be also left on the guestbook.

L&R Wildphoto | Wildlife of Somerset & further afield.

Rob

Leif · #2 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Chace

Doh....... Forgot to add a link!
L&R Wildphoto | Wildlife of Somerset & further afield.

Rob

The layout looks pretty good. Are the thumbnail images genuine thumbnails, or just the big image displayed small? I ask due to download times.

One comment is that you display your emaiil address openly. That might not be a good idea unless you welcome spam. One alternative is to have a script such as PHP which generates the email from substrings when the user clicks on a button. That might foil the automated email address harvesters.

ron1863 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 02:30 PM

I enjoyed the site, lovely images and good information that keeps your attention. My only criticism is that I don't like the leaves travelling down the screen, it distracts from what you are looking at or reading.
I think some information regarding lens, aperture etc would be useful information to include with each photograph.

Ron

Ruth Daniel · #4 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 03:50 PM

A lovely site with some stunning images Rob.....I especially like the Hooded Merganser pics!

Rob Chace · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 08:57 PM

Thanks for your kind comments.
Leif: I presume that it was a bit slow. I think this is due to freewebs rather than the thumbnails (which are proper thumbnails as far as i know).
Ron: I have removed the leaves after a bit of thought. Will think about the techie stuff.
Ruth: The Hoodie is the long stayer at Radipole lake in Weymouth, cracking little bird!

Regards
Rob

tameblackbirds · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 09:10 PM

I loved your images great website

nutmeg · #7 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 09:48 PM

I would have liked to view your images, but none loaded for me - apart from the very nice barn owl on the front page.

I use Firefox 3.0.5

Rob Chace · #8 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 08:31 PM

Hi Nutmeg,
Don't know why that is

perhaps it has something to do with your browser? but i havent heard anyone else say its a problem. Perhaps you could try again sometime?
Regards
Rob

JeffH · #9 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 08:24 PM

Hi Rob,

I had a look at your site earlier - it's very good (I love the colour scheme - I've got similar

) and you have some superb images.

I'm afraid I disagree with Ron (sorry Ron

) about including technical info about camera settings, etc.

Having said that, it depends who your site is aimed at and what you're trying to achieve. When I was thinking about setting up my own site I spoke to a few people with web marketing experience.

The point was made that if a site is being used to sell images to the general public they generally won't be the least bit interested in the technical stuff or what equipment you use, etc.

However, if a site is merely to showcase work to other wildlife enthusiasts/ photographers, then they will doubtless be interested in such things.

It may be that a site is set up to do both of these things but, in my experience, it is very unusual for photographers to buy another photographer's work (except perhaps for the big names) so there's probably little to be gained from a commercial point of view in providing too much technical detail.

I suppose the same applies to some extent to equipment descriptions/reviews - fellow wildlife photography enthusiasts might be interested but others probably won't be.

Just a few hopefully constructive thoughts and keep up the good work.

Finally, are you aware of 'Google Analytics' - it's a great (and free) facility that enables you to monitor your site traffic, sources of visits, pages visited, etc and helps identify any pages on your site (if any) that are attracting little interest - check it out.

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers and Barn Owls)