Erland’s Ranting

I always seem to start my posts with an excuse or apology for tardiness… so, for the sake of tradition, it has indeed been a long time coming and finally, after purchasing the ErlandHowden.com domain over 7 months ago, I have finally finished my photography & design gallery and portfolio. In the end, it only took a few days of solid work – finding a theme, sorting out which pictures to use, uploading, tweaking and polishing – there’s still a bit of that to do. Until now, the domain has been redirecting to my online shop through RedBubble – erland.redbubble.com – but that interface is very limiting in terms of design and content.

At the moment, I have six galleries – landscapes, fauna, flora, people, design and Papua New Guinea. Each has at least 15 images in it and there are a few waiting to be added to the galleries, especially in “people” where I’ve had to ask for permission and “design” where my poster work is scattered throughout my files. There are a few more galleries waiting in the wings too – Europe for one, where I already have enough to make a gallery I think, as well as Central Australia and possibly more.

This blog is now a top-line navigation link from the site, so that people checking out my portfolio can catch up (however irregularly) with what I’m up to. Speaking of this blog, you might have noticed a theme change recently – part of the whole web presence overhaul which as of two days ago includes creating a facebook profile. I’ve been holding out on that one for a long time because I don’t like the company, I don’t like invasive advertising (actually, I pretty much hate all advertising) and I don’t like the privacy policy or terms and conditions. Read a full diatribe here. I’ve also updated my changents profile and added a badge for that to the column on the right – it’s a great web site to support activists and tell their stories, check it out. Just a few other things to point you around this blog – at the top on the right you can see my twitter updates – think of it as a mini-blog that’s updated much more regularly and usually by text message (follow me here). You can also check out all my latest travel photos at blog.erlandhowden.com/photos

Anyway, check it the new site and if you like it please help me out by recommending it to others. Remember, good old word of mouth works just as well as twitter, facebook, digg, delicious and all the rest.