2014 Nov | Photos of the 04th November 2014 Panamanian National Flag Day Parade through Panama City. |
2014 Oct | Quite a few new Photo Of The Month pages added to clear my travelling backlog. Hope you enjoy the Pacific photographs! |
2014 Apr | New photos added as the chapel that houses the original Ark of the Covenant in Aksum, Ethiopia nears completetion and has its dedication ceremony. New photos added from the Optimist 2014 Pre-National Championships and the Optimist 2014 National Championships - Manly Beach - Whangaparaoa - New Zealand. |
2014 March | Article added telling how Getty are giving away 35 million Free Images, and how this will affect me and other stock photographers. |
2013 September | Four new Photo Of The Month pages added for May, June, July, and August 2013. |
2013 August | Two new Photo Articles added: Hindu Gods and Goddesses rise to the river-surface at Haridwar, and Ukraine Independence Day Celebrations in Kiev. |
2013 May | Three new Photo Of The Month pages added for February, March, and April 2013. |
2013 May | The photos are now even BIGGER. After many requests, I have increased the size of the Gallery photos AND the 'Photo of the Month' section from 500 to 800 pixels, with a discrete central watermark. The maps are bigger too. Please let me know what you think of the new look. |
2013 Apr | Explore the High Resolution Stock Photograph on this site in a new way, by browsing through a wide variety of Themes. Many of the images in these galleries are tagged with a Theme. The Themes page helps you to explore them. Themes may be sub-divided into Sub Themes: 'Color >> Gold', and in some case, Sub Sub Themes: 'Wildlife >> Animals >> Dogs'. |
2013 Apr | You can now search for photos by listing every keyword for the photos of a specified country. Visit the country galleries, or find a direct link on the Sitemap page. |
2013 Apr | New photos added in the continuing story of the chapel that houses the original Ark of the Covenant in Aksum, Ethiopia. |
2013 Feb | One hundred and ten photos and an introductory article on my visit to the 2013 Maha Kumbh Mela festival near Allahabad, in India's Uttar Pradesh state. |
2013 Feb | Seventy photos and a 12 page article on Australia's Long Distance Trains. Many new photos taken on assignment at the Taprobane Seafood Factory, a modern seafood processing centre near Negombo, Sri Lanka. Also images of a traditional Sri Lankan 'Oruwa' outrigger fishing boat as used by fishermen all along the western coast of this enchanting tropical island. |
2012 Dec | Seven new Photo Of The Month pages added for June, July, August, September, October, November, and December 2012. |
2012 Jul | New Photo of Dalai Lama's Kalachakra DVD cover added, and a new tutorial that explains how to use a batch program to add the correct metadata to images for uploading to Panoramio. |
2012 May | New Photo Of The Month pages added for April, and May 2012. |
2012 Mar | Many new photos added to the England gallery, plus new gallerys added for Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. New pages with maps added that document my Recent Travels. A new lens and camera bags added to my Photographic Equipment page. |
2012 Feb | New article with photos documenting my visit to the Thaipusam Festival 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
2012 Jan | New article with graphs that explains How to choose a Prime Lens that will best match your personal Photographic Style. |
2011 Dec | New article about the mythic Ark of the Covenant that many people believe to be kept in a small chapel in Aksum, Ethiopia. |
2011 Nov | Quite a few new items this time. The Photo of the Month section has many new pages. There are also some new Tips, including how to photograph from a hot-air ballon, a camel, and an elephant. New photos have been added from the USA, Canada, Angola, Congo, DR Congo, and Gabon. |
2011 May | New View CSV page that explains how to view the Photographer's World Database of Countries, States, and Cities CSV files in a simple way, so that you can copy and paste the information to your own photo keywording program. |
2011 Apr | New Tutorial that explains how to find the real time that your photo was taken, no matter where in the world you happened to be. Also, the PhotoShop Image Retouching Workflow Tutorial has been updated with new tips and techniques. |
2011 Feb | New Photo Of The Month pages added for November, December, and January 2011. |
2010 Nov | New Photo Of The Month pages added for July, August, September, and October 2010. |
2010 Oct | Added some tasters of my time spent learning to sail tallships on a 3-masted square rigger out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The main images will be going on line shortly, but in the meantime, check the Picton Castle page. |
2010 Sep | Many new facilities added to the website. Special thanks are due for the helpful suggestions of fellow-photographer Chris Blade - do visit his brilliant website. GnomePlanet now has Google mapping of all images that have recorded geo-reference positions. You can also buy prints of the images online, pay via credit card and have them delivered to your front door, thanks to the nice people at the PhotoBox image print facility. |
2010 Aug | Developed mainly in a hotel room in Quito, Ecuador, the GnomePlanet website finally goes live on the internet. I even remembered to include a visitor-counter from day one this time. |
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