30 new photographs from the past year or so.

This site uses the Random Header plugin to display a random photograph from a pool of predefined photos on my hard disk. Over the past year and a half — since setting up my personal site and blog with WordPress — I’ve been adding photos from my personal collection. The vast majority of photos you see in the header were taken by me. The exceptions are the few that show me — usually in my helicopter.

I realized after my Alaska trip that I hadn’t added any photos for a long time. I spent about a half hour adding a few from that trip. It’s a bit involved because the image must be a certain size and it must have that kind of pukey color border on the left side. I’ve got it down to a science now and can whip one out in Photoshop in about 2 minutes. I also reduce the size of the photo without the border and use that for my About the Photo entries where I describe individual photos in some detail. You can see some of those images here; I’ll discribe them in

Only certain photos are suitable for the 455×200 pixel image size. For example, I can’t use most vertical (or portrait) shots, so I pretty much have to stick with landscape shots. Also, some photos just don’t crop well.

In any case, those new header images have been added to the random rotation and are already appearing online. I’ll create write-ups for some of them in the upcoming months.