The more you work on something the more you understand how it works, its idiosyncrasies and foibles. So it is with my new WordPress blog. Making the blog just the way you wish it to look is a matter of trial and error and fiddling about. I would love to describe it as an iterative process but that would be too flattering…instead it is a bit of bodge and fix – which probably sums up my life very well!
Simon Marchini
www.simonmarchini.co.uk
In truth not the best likeness but it was enjoyable to make.
Simon Marchini
Another book, this time about landscape photography, and finally I’ve made a quick landscape sketch. I suppose it is a start.
Simon Marchini
Landscapes oh landscapes. For reason best known to no one I just can’t draw/paint landscapes. Now I know that is a loaded statement and so perhaps I had better expand on it – just a little.
For more than 30 years I have been a practicing photographer who’s main subject matter was landscapes. As a result of this every time I look at a landscape I see it as a photographer and can’t make the leap away from this. This is really starting to bug me so I hatched a plan….well I actually came up with this over breakfast and as such not much thought went into it. But it was a plan.
The plan. I’ll find some landscape photograph and try and copy it in a vain hope that I might find something inspirational in this process to spur me onto greater things. So I scanned my library of art and photographic books and came on Dream Street by W. Eugene Smith, who by the way is, in my opinion, one of the greatest photographers of all time – but that is another argument. As I flicked through the gritty black and white images of 1950’s Pittsburgh I came across one of his steel works portraits and I just had to make a painting of it.
So is this a landscape – er no but I really enjoyed the challenge of creating the painting so…well nothing really. Is there a moral to this story?..not at all – it is just a story.
Simon Marchini
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http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk
My Posterous blog has now been imported into WordPress and I have to say it is really impressive. The whole process took around 10 minutes seems to have worked. All the blog entries appear to be there, although I haven’t checked every entry but those that I have seem to be ok. I suddenly have a fully functioning blog again which, with one or two exceptions, seems to be better that the Posterous experience – and I suspect that the issues I have with WordPress at the moment will disappear over time as I get used to the way that things are done.
Overall a positive start.
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As the Posterous site is closing down on the 23rd of April I have decided to import the blog entries from Posterous to WordPress. I’ve just started the process which appears painless at the moment but we’ll have to see how it turns out.
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Having reread the instructions about categories I think I might have understood them a whole lot better. However, I’m not sure I see the point of them but I guess that may well change as I get more experience OD using WordPress.
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I have every confidence this is going to fail but here goes:
[categories general]
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The last few blog entries must have been really amusing to read! Anyway, I seem to have cracked the tagging. Now lets see about categories:
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So far I haven’t mastered the tagging. Here goes again.
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