I attended a party celebrating SmugMug's 5th birthday tonight. Five years ago SmugMug was two people in an apartment. They had five customers sign up the first month. Today they are almost 30 people and support many customers. I use SmugMug to host my galleries and provide originals for many of the images I post on the blog.

They were taking pictures of people in costume too. Lots of fun as you can see:

Tags: SmugMug, Birthdays, Costumes

David Michael Holmes has an Aperture Export plug-in for SmugMug called ApertureToSmugMug. While that's the only one that interests me, others may find his other plug-ins for Phanfare, PBase, and ZenFolio useful.

Tags: Aperture, Plug-ins, SmugMug, Phanfare, ZenFolio, PBase

Adjusting photos from my trip is not what has been occupying my time: I can tweak three or four a minute and have been using the dark of the evenings to plow through them to the point of being about 80% done. What has been occupying my time is the recent arrival of a Canon 30D, two lenses, and the subsequent photographing of practically everything that reflects light.

Why the 30D? It's about to go obsolete isn't it? Yes it is. The 40D is coming and it almost certainly has more than I need. But the 30D is a very good price right now and it's been shown to be a great, dependable camera. I'm putting the majority of my money into lenses, opting for high quality, large aperture, and image stabilization. This new toy means that I am likely to have somewhat less time for blogging for the near future.

I've also been moving my Canon S3 galleries to SmugMug on my pages at http://bagelturf.smugmug.com/. I'll be posting more photos on SmugMug in my Canon 30D gallery as I get some good ones to share.

Tags: Photography, Blogging, Canon, 30D, SmugMug