Putting technology into practice and sharing what I learn. This growing collection connects my interests in telecommunications, websites and AI with the people, communities and businesses that can benefit.
Welcome to my blog. What excites me about technology is what we can do with it. I explore that through community projects, photography and the web: putting ideas into practice, learning from the results and sharing discoveries that may help others. This blog began with photography, and those earlier stories remain part of it. It … Read full article
I see enormous potential in True HDR Photography to revolutionise still photography and yet my own photography journey has been held up by weaknesses in current commercial image web delivery systems. I have used Smugmug for many years, but it does not currently support HDR images. While WordPress currently allows HDR AVIF files to be … Read full article
“Communities have the opportunity to bring information together in one place to address the weaknesses of social media and reinvigorate community websites.” This is the first in my Building Community Websites series. It aims to provide practical, researched guides to help communities improve their existing websites and social media presence. In this article, I present … Read full article
After many hours of testing image formats and working through my photographic archive, this is the workflow I recommend. For photographs I want to show in both standard dynamic range (SDR) and HDR, my recommendation is simple: preserve the RAW data efficiently, produce separate SDR and HDR versions, and keep these masters for the long … Read full article
One current challenge with True HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography is displaying and sharing images in all their resolution and dynamic range glory. Effective ‘channels’ for this can be Vimeo, YouTube or your very own TV. Vimeo and YouTube have had the capability of streaming videos in high resolution and HDR for many years. Here … Read full article