It's been a couple of weeks since I got back from Kenya, I've spent hours and hours (enjoyable mind) on the post processing of the photos and they are ready for showcasing. I've put them all up on Fuselagetown's Kenya Gallery - Or 51 kodak moments in Kenya as I like to call it... I've also uploaded them to my Flickr Photostream but they are of lower resolution over there.

During my stay in Kenya I blogged regularly over at the Team Kenya website, and I've now copied the content over for my readers to catch up.. Here goes nothing..

I've always believed it's okay not to support every charity that asks as long as I'm a student. When I now (finally) am making money it's time to give something back to society. I was very excited when Orange Bus decided to go through with The Free Web Project, building a website in 72 hours free of charge, and my excitement was even bigger when Team Kenya won the contract. They came to Orange Bus headquarters with amazing stories, class footage, a stack of photographs and burning passion to make a difference in Ndhiwa in Western Kenya.

Every time I get into a conversation with a fellow keen photographer, it tends to have drastic consequences for me. Last week was no exception. At lunch break I had a lengthy chat with Tim about the sort of problems we face when we design websites for clients and they can't provide you with decent photos. It is a true challenge, and even thought we are wizards when it comes to visuals, the results aren't up to scratch. Bad photography cannot be "hidden" in good design. Photos are what catches your attention when you arrive at a website, and it's frustrating when people can't understand that. Websites aside, we're both keen to do more one-off gigs - I'd like to focus on weddings, children, promotion photos for artists, athletes etc, all of which are excellent opportunities to let creativity flow and really make unique and special imagery. And after speaking with Tim, I realised that the only thing holding me back is the equipment.

So, after spending quite a bit of time branding the company I work for, I quite fancied getting the work out to people in the industry. I used the material I had spent hours and hours polishing to make a desktop wallpaper for this coming month, and sent it over to smashing magazine, and GOT IN! Very excited that the orange bus will be adorning fellow artists' computers around the globe.

* With a little help from Thesaurus

A while ago I had a good idea for a website. Not a blog like this, but a place to showcase my work. I wanted it to be a long one-page-site with several sections for each bit, so that I could use all my favourite patterns and colours, not to far from what this guy has done. I was quite keen to do a header that's a liiiittle more out of the ordinary, so I thought why not go for a vintage style wild wild west theme, and this is the result... Just thought I'd share it with my readers.

(Wild Wild West)
When I roll into the
(Wild Wild West)
When I stroll into the
We going straight to the Wild Wild West (the Wild Wild West)
(Wild, Wild West) whoo, uh
(Wild Wild West) ha ha ha ha
(Wild Wild West) uh Dru, Dru
(Wild Wild West) I done done it again y'all done done it again
(Wild Wild West) ha ha ha ha
(Wild Wild West) Big Will, Dru Hill, uh
(Wild Wild West) Big Will, Dru Hill ha ha ha ha

I feel self-conscious when I go to post a new message now that several of the people I work with subscribe to this blog. Thought I should just just make a list of the features I've implemented on the site.

The blog is now fully functional according to my needs. I'm using the taxonomy for tagging my blog posts, and it seems to be working as it should.

I've integrated my Flickr page on my site using the flickr module. I made some photosets on Flickr and realised that I need to upgrade to have more than 3 sets at the same time. It's only 20 something dollars for a year so I don't mind cashing out for such a good tool.

So, I followed a bunch of Drupal tutorials, and the website is now actually up and running with no errors! Nice work by Robert Safuto - his walkthroughs are easy to follow so I'll be returning to his videos for help later.

Right, here I am, with an attempt to learn how to develop websites. I am so impressed with what the guys do in Drupal at work, I thought I'd give it a go to see what the fuss is about. So far I'm very impressed by the endless possibilities this system offers.