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Three new features have made their way to the JMG-Galleries blog: I have added the Google Translation widget, which I’m hoping will open my blog further to those whose native tongue is not English. I realize that the resulting translation may not be perfect, but it will certainly be better than nothing. For those that use this widget I am very interested to learn more about your experiences with it. This widget

Now that I’ve got your attention… For those sitting on the fence contemplating joining in on my Sea Otter Photo Tour this September 7th and 14th there’s no time like the present to register. Sea Otters are incredibly good photography subjects and are entertaining to boot. Opportunities to photograph their playful antics and unique feeding behavior doesn’t get better than this. Spaces are filli

It’s official I’m back. Back from 5 days of a very hectic but relaxing travel schedule to photograph the beautiful natural landscapes of Utah and Wyoming. Not counting my flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City I logged nearly 1100 miles in my trusty rental car. In a very strange coincidence I seem to have captured a tad over a photo per mile. As we all know it’s not the quantity of photos it is

This past week and a half has been incredibly exciting here at JMG-Galleries.com. Quite a few new subscribers have joined the conversation here, many as a result of the news in my blog post How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This Weekend. Unfortunately for me at the peak of activity of this conversation my eyes started giving me some problems. As you can imagine, for someone who loves photography as much as I do

Click to Enlarge This week is going to be a light blogging week for me, for two reasons both of which revolve around things that are broken. First Monday evening I slammed my bare foot into the leg of my dresser smashing my toe. Having broken more than a few bones in my past I knew instantly that it broke. Shortly after the break was confirmed as I felt and heard bones crunching as I gingerly walked around my bedroom

White Sands National Monument in New Mexico is one of the most beautiful locations in the southwestern United States. The lighting is like no where else that I’ve experienced. The iconic pastel hues that paint the landscape here have inspired artists for centuries. To say photographing this location was inspiring would be an understatement. The more I review photographs from this location the more I want to ret

Last weeks WordPress upgrade nightmare, noted here, has finally come to an end. I spent the last few days searching for the right theme to tweak and make my own. This was not an easy task and proved to me more time consuming than the half day spent customizing the theme. The blog as you see it is the end result. For those lacking a photographic memory below is the comparison between the two. So what is different? See

In an effort to address performance issues with my blog I decided to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. Unfortunately the process of upgrading my blog did not go smoothly. After accidentally over writing my database, the equivalent of erasing all entries from the past year and half, my heart became firmly lodged in my throat. Fortunately my web host, he.net whom I highly recommend, was able to restore the da