Wordpress theme goes wider and bigger

I’m excited to announce another wave of updates for my dedicated photography blog! This time, there’s actually 2 updates to the theme.

Photo caption fix

First of all, it’s about a bug fix which is actually quite unnoticeable to the masses. There are 4 columns at the bottom of the homepage whereby 2 latest photos shown. The description of the photo has been made to be the same as what is displayed in the photo slide show / stream above. Primarily, we do not want to see “Click on the photo to see larger size” appears in the caption at the homepage which is ridiculously irrelevant, isn’t it? It’s only valid when user goes into the blog entry.

Expand blog entry

Secondly, it’s about serving better and wider range of photos.

Everything has gone wide these days seriously. You want wide wide highway to drive on to getting real big and wide screen display to play your HD videos. Heck, you can’t even buy a proper normal ratio (4:3 ratio with resolution like 1024×768, 800×600, 1280×1024) LCD panel on market as easily as 2 years ago now! Everything is wide, so do the photos and blogs. Okay, back to where we were.

For our case here, in particular, panorama. It’s a pain to the eyes when we are viewing something very wide like panorama like the scale of 5:1 (width:height). Just like the little long panoramic image that you are seeing above!

With just a click of button! Walah~

The blog entry content pane is widened to as much as the template permits. This has made photo viewing much much much more flexible and satisfying. Hope you all like this little update.

Technically, of course, for those who are interested to get wide too on their blog too, read on.

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photo.hugolim.com

You may have noticed the absence of updates over the past few days. I have been busy juggling with work (and repairing myself from sudden mood swing on the personal note), taking care of mylensdb.com, and designing a new brand new site!

I would like to call it, HugoLim Photography. It resides at photo.hugolim.com.

It has been years having my photography works blogged at this site and I’m feeling the need to have a dedicated one instead of mixing them with the rest of unrelated stuff like computers and geek-like programming junks.

How things started

I’m captivated by CNN’s Daily Snapshot website. It updates daily and show the most interesting event happened on the day. I like this idea. Thus, I’m thinking of its concept used to present its pictures.

The design

photo.hugolim.com runs on Wordpress as it’s backbone and not on dedicated photo gallery application.

However, there’s something real cool about this site (yes, pardon me for praising my own website). As you can see from the screen shot of photo.hugolim.com below, the placeholder of the biggest picture will change itself showing the latest pictures posted.

And for every one day or two, a new photo will be posted on this site.

And at the bottom of the page, we can see the latest posts with thumbnails of featured categories (eg, landscape, nature, travel and people).

With this, I proudly announce, photo.hugolim.com is open for business! I like it very much, it’s design is so much better than this blog (shame on me). I really hope that you like it too.

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Model Shooting: Debil, Abby and Eileen

Well, I’m fortunate that Kelvin invited me for a model portrait shooting session last week. Finally I can somehow utilize my lenses that have since collecting dust (even inside the dry box!).

Introducing Elaine Eileen, Debil and Abby Ebby. I had a very hard time trying to remember and pronounce their names properly especially Debil’s. And I think I got some of their names spelled wrongly here too. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Nice to meet you all, girls! And here’s the photos as promised.

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A day with William

Introducing Captain William Yeoh of USS Enterprise. He is almost the same age as my nephew and he is as playful as any other babies too. Cute!

Babies are cute but.. things will go out of control once they learn how to crawl and it gets worse once they start trying to stand up and walk.. (laugh out loud) Okay, back to the topic…

Last week, I spent some time at my friend’s house trying to shoot some baby pics. The result is not that satisfying though. There’s definitely lots more to learn before I can actually offer my service commercially. Anyway, it’s good to have more photography sessions. Practice makes perfect!

A very big ‘Thank you!’ to Jerrica for the photographing opportunity!

Hope to arrange another session with you again to produce some contest-grade materials! Till then, I would like to share some pics taken during that time. Click here to get to the full album.

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Mr and Mrs Low

Spice garden (Batu Ferringhi) isn’t just about its spices only. It serves as a major photo-shooting choice for many of local folks as well as those from outstation. I was *ahem* honored to be able to do a couple photo-shoot session with my colleague earlier last week. The result….

Shame to tell that this is my very first time covering couple photo shooting. There’s really lots to learn from this outing. Apart from being able to test my newly acquired reflector, I have learned a lot on how to coordinate the whole process. The next outing would be definitely better in photo quality, faster in shooting and setting-up and lighter in equipments carried.

Lots of thanks to Wendy for helping out in this photo shooting session. She fell sick one day after that due to dehydration. Some photos are taken by her too!

You may also want to view selected photos album at Facebook, otherwise, just click on any thumbnails here to get to the album.

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