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Since I started this blog I have constantly run into the problem that adding photos to it is difficult.  In the early days I did it all by hand, in the last year or so I have used a gallery plugin for WordPress.  However, even with the gallery plugin, I had a hard time managing my photo collections with it.  In addition, I could not find a nice way to for users to just browse all the photos on my site, or select a subset which was interesting to them (i.e. macro, city, cats, etc).  An obvious solution was to do one post per photo, and tag them, but that could lead to a huge number of posts.

My solution now is simply to separate my photo management from my blog.  I now have a Flickr account, which I will post all my photography to, and organize my photos with.  My blog will still show my photography, but it will pull it directly from Flickr, using WordPress plugins.  In this way I hope to be able to post more work, without the pain of creating new posts each time I have new photos I want to share.

This will also allow the “blog part” of my blog to return to being more of a programming blog without getting watered down with photo posts.  However I still want to show my latest photography, so the first part of my “blog feed” will always display the latest two (or so) photos I have taken.

The Photography link now goes to a gallery which shows all my latest photos.

Since I am still in the process of adding photos to my Flickr account, some of the photos on my blog are not yet in the new Flickr based gallery.  Therefore, I am keeping the old photography page around for a little while.

I was having fun will LED lights.