Google are now offering overflow storage space to those that need it. If you are one of the people who have managed to use up the free quotas of 1GB on Picasa and 2.8GB for Gmail accounts then you can go and buy yourself another 6GB of storage for just $20/year. Sounds like a bargain, [...]

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I was quite pleased today to see that one of my photo’s of Cologne Zoo in my sleeping flickr pages has been selected to be used as part of an online travel guide. I don’t think the photo is that great, but I guess they wanted a picture of a reptile. The Schmap!! Guide to [...]

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Hot on the heels of the Thickbox plugin for WordPress is the Litebox Plugin for WordPress. I had a couple of requests to make it, and amazingly couldn’t find it already done by someone else. (I did find a Thickbox plugin, but it was not in English so decided mine was still worth releasing). The [...]

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A while ago, I wrote a quick plugin for WordPress for displaying images using the excellent Thickbox script by the very clever Cody Lindley. I have now zipped it up and it can be downloaded from its new home http://www.gavinbarker.co.uk/wpthickbox/

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I have now made my photos page live. You can find it by clicking on Photos(test) at the top. For the time being it is dragging my pictures back from my flickr account and displaying them on my site in a fancy fading way. Once day though I will be using the long awaited galtopia [...]

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Woody sits for his first portrait session. We were giving Matthew’s new lense a quick outing and managed to get him to sit still in 2 second bursts!

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Still in the early stages, but I am plodding on with galtopia. A top secret web application for creating galleries for professional (and amateur) photographers who want something simple yet stylish.

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Lobster and Crab Thing Not quite sure what to call it, but we made this lobster/crab dinner recently. It might look pretty, but one lobster and one crab between two is not very filling. Thankfully we were passing a chip shop shortly after. Note: I don’t photograph all my meals (honest), but I thought it [...]

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My pretty cow picture was one of only three pictures featured tonight on the BBC’s The One Show. Even got a name and location mention!

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It’s been a while since we had any updates, so here is a picture of Matthew “Steve Redgrave” Brown rowing at Scarborough. Sonia was supposed to be the cox of the boat, but could do little to control my out of control rowing efforts.

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