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<p>I agree with Jeff to a point. Wordpress, or any CMS, are good if you don't want to get into running your Website. The cost is that your entire Website will be effective stuck in that CMS format, and there is a lot of up frontend learning and work to set the Website up. After that all you have to do is keep it updated or hire someone. There are a lot of companies who will create a Wordpress Website for you and manage it if you want, but the cost there is them since they're doing all the work.</p> <p>The other option are the many available Website hosts who have an array of templates to use where you just work with the content after setting up the design. The only thing there is to read the details about the domain name to ensure you own it than just "leasing" it. The former gives you the right to move it, the latter means they own it in your name, but the former is the more common now.</p> <p>That said, your best bet is to sit down with a Website designer and developer to go through the process of creating one, which means laying out everything you want in the Website, setiting up the organization and structure, and then the design. This is often called storyboarding it, which is always a good idea to keep you from having to complete redo the Website in the future.</p> <p>Once done, then the decisions become easier to know what type of Website you want to use to present it and then operate and manage it. This is important as many photographers create static Websites which work well for displaying their work and adding galleries, but often are limited to expanding it to other avenues of work or presenting a broader array of products or services.</p> <p>Good luck.</p>

<p>I've subscribed since they began the subscription program with Adobe Muse. As others have said, you get access to the whole suite of applications, one of which is Dreamweaver I've used for 10 years. I also still have some pre-CC (CS5, 5.5 and 6) versions of applications which still work on OS-X 10.11, including GoLive 9 of all things.</p> <p>My only issue with Adobe is two-fold. One, the CC manager app doesn't always work right and won't log into Adobe when you start up. The solution is delete the desktop and restart everytrhing. And two, you have to be careful installing new complete versions as the install package deletes all old CC version, but Time Machine is great to bring them back and they don't interfer with the latest versions to run similtaneously, one feature Adobe has always had with their apps.</p>

<p>Most of the newer photo applications are almost, if not completely, lossless jpg processors depending on the changes you make and save. I agree, Photoshop is an excellent one for doing everything. DxO makes Filmpack, a plug-in and standalone application to convert digital to film looking images. A small correction. Kodachrome is a (positive) slide film Kodacolor is the negative film.</p>

<p>Have folks used Google for AINews? There are several uses of AI News, which may be why the project details haven't been released. Requesting buy in from photographers without divulging the type and details of the work is unprofessional. Photographers have the right to know what work to be done.</p>

<p>Adobe runs a lot of daemons for apps, eg. crash, helper and other processes with CC or the apps. They close when you close the app, otherwise they sit to work when necessary. They're innocuous and really shouldn't be closed except by the app, unless the activity says they're not responding (shown red in OS-X) which means they're not working correctly, often due to connection problems to the app's host (eg. Adobe Desktop Service). In some cases if they're closed, they'll often be reopened by the app or the launch daemon.</p>

<p>Javascript can do slide shows (load and change images). You set the images and time interval in the code. Do a Google search on "javascript slideshow".</p>

<p>Interesting considering the news reports of cops taking photographs and asking for identification of people without probable cause and running the photographs of faces through facial recognition systems, including driver's license databases, and including the people in various databases, including gang membership. While they bother us for taking photographs and videos, they're doing the same to us for police files. What would George Orwell say?</p>

<p>Not live but recent, the ones at Mt. Rainier NP, which I created <a href="http://www.wsrphoto.com/mtwebcams.html">Web page.</a></p>

<p>Is there any way to delete administrative messages? They keep piling up (although it's just 8) and can't be removed. If the administrator is the only one who can delete them in people's mailbox, how about removing those past a certain date, like last month and older?</p>

<p>Good luck on your visit. You're welcome to visit my photography guide on <a href="http://www.wsrphoto.com/mtstart.html">Mt Rainier NP</a> and let me know if you have any questions or places you want to visit but are unsure. Beside the obvious places you've already found, the answer to the question, "What's there to photograph?", is "Everything and anything." There's no lack of photographic places or scenes, it's the old adage about the timing and the light.</p> <p>All that's said about the NP, this is turning into a very busy tourist season with no letup in sight for this summer, so come early or be ready for crowds later in the day, but most disappear from trails after the first mile. There will still be some wildflowers in some areas and at the higher elevations. There's lots of short hikes in all the areas for the common photography places and scenes, so it's a matter of pick the places and go.</p> <p>Depending on when you go in August wil determine the weather you have as August is the transition month from summer in the early part to early fall in the late part of the month. The insects will be out in abundance until the first near freezing night and then they're almost all gone, sometime after the first half of the month.</p>

<p>Installing CC 2015 apps for the first time will remove previous versions CC apps but not CS apps. You can simply restore the CC 2014 apps from backups and they'll run independently of CC 2015 or any CS apps. I run 2014 CC and 2015 CC DW, PS, Acrobat Pro, etc. apps along with CS apps simultaneously with no problems. They also recognize if you accidently open and work on the same files.</p>

<p>David is right about Mt. Rainier NP. Due to the record low snowpack and early snowmelt, the wildflower season is winding down in most low-mid elevation areas, but there will be some wildflowers through July in the upper elevations, and into August, just not an abundance of them as earlier in June into early July. The NPS reports conditions on the Facebook page and Twitter account.</p>

<p>I agree and having while taken photos during my work as a federal employee, it depends who owns the equipment and the reason behind the photos. If the individual owned the camera equipment, all photos taken are their personal property, even if the government asked the person to take they photos. The person then has the obligation to share what photos the government wants, and those would become either be photos "courtesy of [name]" or public domain. If the government owned the photo equipment, requested taking specific photos, or paid for any processing, then they own all photos taken which become public domain.</p>

<p>Interesting opinion, but off the point of Taylor Swift's complaint, which after numerous complaints Apple has rescinded the policy and agrees to pay during the free promotional period. If the photographer has arguments against her about photography contracts, then make the point separate from the music issue.</p>

<p>Interesting is that initial court decisions side with the plaintiff against Prince but the appeals court decisions overturn the decisions on legal issues, meaning the initial judges saw the appropriation of the works but the law doesn't define it sufficiently to sustain the decision. The problem isn't that it's appropriation, it is, but the law isn't, as noted, clear enough to establish appropriation for commercial art purposes, which to me is what Prince is doing, make money for commercial value.</p> <p>If Prince stole someone landscape, nature, street photography, etc. photograph, it would appropriation, so why are photos of people on social networking Websites legal? As for the context issue across mulitipe images, why is that when all the photos were sold individually, thereby losing the context of the display. It may be art in context as a whole but it's not when he's selling all the images individually for profit. What he is doing is what anyone could equally do, download, print and sell Instagram images under the guise of art.</p>

<p>I've learned since the introduction of the 6-series iPhones and IOS 8 that Apple's policy is to only test what they want to test, leaving much of the problems and debugging to users, don't admit anything IOS 8 broke, and certainly don't fix it unless it effects apps (aka, revenue). I know the 30-pin adaptor works with devices to play music and charge iPhone/iPads with lightning connections, but IOS 8 broke bluetooth on my iPhone 5s but not my iPad. That's Apple now days. As for your problem, I use the circular route (Camera card to Mac to iPad) since the direct download never worked with my Camera witih Apple's connector.</p>

<p>A few problems with the law beside the obvious constitutional issues. First, many federal agencies are charged with collecting data throughout the state, including the USGS with collects water resources, geologic, and wildlife data, on the whole range of land regardless of the owner. The State can't arrest and hold federal employees with a legal right to enter property and collect data, inlcuding those the State has a contract for agencies or companies to collect data. Second, the law requires intent, meaning, "...to submit or intending to submit..." the data to state or federal agences. They can arrest you but can't prove intent. Third, the State has no jurisidiction on or over federal lands. I think the law is more a threat than substance, and the first case will invalidate it.</p>

<p>Years ago I watched a team (husband the photographer and wife the botanist) photograph flowers in Mt. Rainier NP with a 4x5, and as Edward noted, it was a lot of work with the camera but also she was holding a large reflector to assist with the light and block the slight wind blowing the flowers. Their work was for a text book and wanted the 4x5 film quality for publishing (before better digital cameras). From watching that and my LF work (landscape), go with the MF gear.</p>

<p>I would go ahead and update to 10.10.3 and get of with life. It's both better and worse than previous versions of 10.10, and 10.9 or 10.8 for that matter, and it fixes some of 10.10.1 and 2 problems while not fixing some others introduced with 10.10 (wifi, bluetooth, etc.). Apple doesn't hide iPhoto, just remove it from user's dashboard, it's still in the applications folder you can put back on your dashboard.</p> <p>I only use iPhoto and now Photos to import from iPhone and iPad and then export photos to Mac folders, otherwise it's innocuous to me. My argument is Apple's continuation of sandboxing such that it plays havoc with Adobe and third-party apps and makes the spinning rainbow wheel a common sight when opening and using apps. And with Canon and third-party applications who abandon older model cameras to download images from the camera.</p>

<p>Matt, the issue of CMS is the difference if you run Website design/management applications, eg. Dreamweaver, where you work in WYSIWYG or html code modes, or with the CMS design and content applications. It's how you work with your Website, that's all. I'm not against them, only noting the difference, especially if you have a small photography business where you may not need a CMS unless you specifically like working with it than "traditional" applications.</p>

<p>I use SF AI Studio 8 for years, upgraded from the free version with my two scanners, running on Mac Pro with Yosemite, and while it's quirky I haven't experienced bugs for problems over the years. To me, it's worth the upgrade since each in-app plugin is built for each brand/model scanner, is better than other software once you see how it fast and good it works, and SF keeps updating it for OS-X and their software with newer scanners.</p>

<p>I agree with what's said. I use a template for my (non-CMS) Website because I can add individual Web pages and update other Web pages with any Web design application. Content Management Systems (CMS) are, as noted, a separate beast, used by companies with signficant Website(s) and lots of people, eg. news media outlets, large retail outlets, etc. for their simplicity for users, but once begun, you're tied to that CMS company and their product/service, and they're not cheap.</p> <p>If you use a CMS, then you learn to manage and use their software to build and manage your Website, and you can't use Web design or Website management applications. It's a one-way street with no exit and no return to regular Website/page work. The templates in CMS are shells built by the CMS software which applies to create all pages linked to it, and you really need people to know the CMS package and application to keep it all together, it's why you have staff or hire a company to do the work depending on the size of the business.</p>

<p>There's a lot to answer, which I won't because there's still a lot of questions, as noted, but a few things I noticed in the specs. First, all images have unique URL's. Images are a single file, however you hide it, or slice and recompose it, or parse the URL, it will always be a single URL, which you can always find and download them. Second, thumbnails are always auto-generated based on the script or HTML code.</p> <p>Anyway, what you've done is listed some technical specs without looking at the larger picture of what you want to do with the Website and how you want to present it for the design, organization, presentation, navigation, etc. I would put those down and start with the overall Website from the top home page to the structure, organization, files (images, blog, info, etc.) and then the presentation and design. And them bring in the technical specs.</p> <p>But that said, any good Web design software package will have or do what you want, many have or offer third-party available templates, or any good Web designer can develop the whole Website and suite of programs for it. In short, you're kinda' ahead of yourself. Use what you have and lay it out first (storyboard). That will begin to define the structure and organization in the suite of Web pages and the underlying Website files, directories, databases, etc., and then establish the technical issues to incorporate into the programs.</p> <p>Just some thoughts. Good luck.</p>

<p>The Spyder 3 is spoken, for but the Spyder 2, for any curmudgeon photographer who hates upgrading their Mac's, is still available to a good home. </p>

<p>Thanks for the responses. First to send a mailing address and preferred shipping (USPS, UPS, FedEx) gets the one they choose. According to Datacolor's Website, they have an <a href="http://support.datacolor.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1635/106/spyder3elite-4010-mac">update to the software</a> for the Spyder 3 Elite for OS-X 10.10 Yosemite, so the difference now between it and the Spyder 4 is the sensor and software features, for example the Spyder 4 Elite adds an ambient (indirect) light reading with the calibration where you adjust the monitor brightness with the calibration process.</p>