Shawn Sorichetti

Chocolate heaven Hosted on Zooomr

After the Autoshow I swapped my 70-300mm zoom lens with Trush for his 100mm macro. The rest of the photos can be seen in my macro collection.

Autoshow Hosted on Zooomr

This week the Toronto Autoshow is taking place at the Convention Centre and Rogers Centre providing plenty of photographic opportunities. With a mountain of unused overtime hours and a desire for some new subjects, Trush and I took the day, and went on a photowalk.

I was quite surprised at the number of people with cameras, but even more so by the diversity of equipment. There were a fair number of people who were quite content to take pictures with their camera phones, which I don’t understand as phone cameras never seemed to be strong on capturing detail.

Flashes are expected, as most people overuse them (especially on point and shoot cameras), but there were more than a few bounce cards, or other light diffusion devices in use. A few people set up tripods in front of the cars. A couple of times Trush or I commented on how it would have been nice to use a one as the lighting wasn’t always the best resulting in some motion blur. A tripod would have helped with macro shots of logos and engine components too. Now we know for next time.

The South Hall was the most interesting of the 3 locations. With the exotic Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati, the extravagant Bently, the luxurious Audi, BMW, Jaguar, classic Studebakers and assorted classic muscle cars, and not to mention Volkswagen, there was plenty to see and shoot. The other locations were either boring domestic or more car dealership showroom. The exceptions being, in the North Hall Porsche and in the Rogers Centre, the Toyota F1 car.

The most disheartening thing about the Autoshow was a severe lack of booth babes. Cars and babes go together like chocolate and peanut butter, yet there were none to be found. I had planned on creating a Babes of the Toronto Autoshow collection, but that’s not going to happen.

I have a lot of pictures to go through, and some finishing that needs to be done. Hopefully I’ll post pictures soon.

Sunshine Hosted on Zooomr

More backlog pictures for the flower collection

As soon as Firefox finished loading the smashing magazine article “83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen”, I knew I had to install the Redoable theme.

I did experience a few problems.

The first issue I noticed was the first comment on a post had a white background making that post impossible to read. I worked around this by changing the style.css file #commentlist li definition (line 995) to:

Second, padding around inline pictures. I’ve only used one inline picture so far, and I wanted the text to wrap around the picture. I was able to achieve this using:

However, the text of the post continues right next to the image with no spacing around it. I tried changing the padding and margins, and while Firefox would tell me that the styling had changed, the results were always the same. Still haven’t found a fix for this.

The next problem I encountered was with WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) and the Extended Live Archive plugin. I came across this post that explains the edits required to make the two work together. A couple of enables/disables via the Redoable options panel, and it still wasn’t working. The menu item for the archive page wasn’t being listed. It was however listed as a post in MarsEdit. After more disabling and enabling, and looking at the records in the database I came across this comment by Dean J. Robinson on the Redoable release 1.1 post, that explains creating the archive page normally with a page template of Archive. This worked, and I now have Extended Live Archive running.

Overall I’m very happy with the theme and how my blog now looks. There are still some minor issues, but I can live with them, for now. I will be keeping my eye out for new releases of Redoable, as it’s now getting a lot of attention, and more attention means more bugs found.

Thank you Dean J Robinson for making such an awesome theme.

Waiting to drink Hosted on Zooomr

While going through my library, I discovered a backlog of pictures that I’d never uploaded.