Billabong Photos

New Galleries

James Bylett — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:22:50 +0000

A double whammy of new galleries today due to me being a bit slow this week in getting photos processed and ready for upload. Firstly I made a return visit to Eriador Cats last Sunday to take some more up to date photos of some of the cats we didn’t have time to do last time and some of the kittens that I photographed previously who are now noticably older, I have added a second page to the Eriador Cats Bengals gallery page with some of the results. Secondly, I visited Wildwood Wildlife Park with Photographers on Safari this week and predictably enough returned with masses of nice photos (if I do say so myself ) and some of my best from the day have a new gallery all to themselves. I also have another photography workshop lined up towards the end of the month at a big cat sanctuary which funnily enough is not far down the road from Wildwood so watch this space in a couple of weeks time for another update.

Slideshows

James Bylett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:48:25 +0000

Two posts in one evening, this is a first! Following on from my earlier post, I decided to get on with adding slideshows for all the galleries and while it proved to be something of a laborious process, it didn’t actually take me as long as I’d feared and as a result, slideshows are now online and can be accessed from the individual gallery pages. To my knowledge the slideshows and associated links are all present and correct but given that it’s quite late and I have had a cider this evening it’s not out of the realms of possibility for me to have made a mistake so please let me know if you spot anything awry!

Page Rearrange

James Bylett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:32:17 +0000

The number of galleries on the site has been steadily expanding since it first went online and with it the gallery list down the side has been getting a little out of control, that and the fact that I’ve never been quite satisfied with the way I had the large galleries with multiple pages organised has led me to have a bit of a re-organisation on a few of the pages for the larger galleries, much for the better if I do say so myself, anybody who has seen the old structure will I’m sure agree that things look a bit neater now! I’m also looking to add something I feel has been a bit lacking from my galleries, slideshow views, but that is going to require a bit more leg work so watch this space!

New Gallery

James Bylett — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:54:26 +0000

Another new gallery is now online, photos taken on another photography day with Photographers on Safari at the Cat Survival Trust in Welwyn, we had to dodge a few showers (a few of them heavy) but all in all we were very lucky with the weather given what it’s been like the rest of the week so the day was still a great success

Minor Rebrand

James Bylett — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:22:33 +0000

Anybody who’s visited before may notice a minor change on the header to the site as I’ve decided to re-describe myself. Up to now I’ve described the site as ‘Wildlife and Scenery Photography’ as that was the primary content of the site when I first built it, however I’ve decided to ammend that slightly for a couple of reasons. Firstly, although I have a number of landscape photos in the galleries and am a big fan of great scenery, landscape photography is not my specialty and has always been a secondary focus for me, I have always been primarily interested in animals and feel I have much more of an affinity with that side of photography, I have generally just taken landscapes as and when the opportunity presented itself along the course of what I was already doing. Secondly, I have in recent months found myself doing more and more photography revolving around somewhat less wild animals and enjoy this almost as much as photographing wildlife, so since that seem to be an equal focus of my photography these days, I have made the decision to rebrand myself as a ‘Wildlife and Pet’ photographer. Obviously that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking landscapes and all manner of other photos as well, but does mean the website description will be a little more accurate to it’s primary content

Bengals Gallery

James Bylett — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:02:54 +0000

Quite a fun weekend I’ve had, one of the highlight of which was visiting Carol and Andrew Hebden of Eriador Cats in Spalding to take photos of some of their beautiful Bengal cats and kittens, a selection of the better photos from the day (i.e. the ones where I managed to get a clear shot in spite of the moggies’ constant fidgeting!) are now online in the galleries area

Photos for sale

James Bylett — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:54:17 +0000

A small selection of my photos are now available to buy as a royalty free non commercial usage collection from I Need That, currently the only collection available is a british wildlife one which includes photos taken at the British Wildlife Centre in Surrey as well as assorted wildlife photos from my local area (all of which can also be viewed on my site). More are likely to be available to buy when I get round to collating a few more selections, later in the summer I have a couple of phtoography workshops lined up which I am anticipating getting some nice results from so watch this space over the next couple of months for further updates

New Galleries

James Bylett — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:44:19 +0000

Couple of new galleries online, finally got a gallery sorted out for some photos that were taken for us at an Aikido course by Sue of Fen Photos which she has kindly made available for me to put online for the club and also a handful of photos from my recent visit to Whipsnade Zoo, photos largely hampered by virtue of the fact that I was there just as a normal member of the public and not part of any photography workshop but a few of the animal’s enclosures still allowed me to take some reasonable photos

Website Upgrade

James Bylett — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:18:17 +0000

An unexpected bonus today, having been holding off upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress for the site pending testing, I finally got round to concluding tests and upgrading today, at the same time discovering a couple of updates available for some of my plugins including the one that governs the galleries and these updates have unexpectedly solved an annoyance I’ve had with the galleries since day one. If anybody has looked at the galleries before using Internet Explorer you would have noticed a strange icon underneath the close button of the enlarged photos, an icon that would normally indicate an image that couldn’t be loaded, the updates seem to have fixed this so aside from an occasional layout issue on the contacts page that’s all the visual bugs ironed out now I think

New Gallery

James Bylett — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:45:27 +0000

Just a small upload this time, a few photos from walking the dogs round Brampton Wood that I think came out alright, significantly less than my last new gallery and going back to my normal preference towards wildlife and scnery, bit more of an even balance between the scenery and wildlife/pets this time though!