Posted on July 17, 2006

• A quick note about the ratings. Since I keep track of which images you have rated (so you can only vote once), I had a decision to make about what to do with that record after (heaven forbid) your account expires. If I delete the records, then if you renew again you will need to vote on all of the images again in order to view the rankings. If I don’t delete the records, then if someone else signs up and uses your old username they won’t be able to vote on the images you had voted on.

  Jessie suggested that I give a 30 day grace period, but that doesn’t solve the unlikely problem of someone signing up during that time and picking your old username.

  In the end, I decided that the records will be deleted along with the expired account. The ratings you gave will remain, but the record that says that “username x voted for image y” will be deleted. If you renew again you will be free to vote again (whether that is a joy or a burden is up to you).

  Thanks everyone for voting. It’s been very enlightening for me!

• Some of you have written asking for updated pictures of my children. I really need to make a page just for them so I don’t need to post here. In the meantime however, here’s one of Ian I took this evening (he will be 3 next month) and here’s one I took of Jason taken a few days ago (he will be 2 months old next week and doing great).

Posted on July 16, 2006

• There’s been enough votes that I can now add “Top 10” pages for each year (check the gallery links to the left) and and “All Time Top 10“. Thanks for all the votes so far!
• By popular request, I’ve extended the image ratings to the “Pickle Jar” versions. I’m not sure what I will do if the Pickles rate higher than the images in the gallery though. I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

Posted on July 15, 2006

• If you are familiar with my free gallery you know that I ask users to rate the images on a 1 to 10 scale. This morning I added the rating system to the members gallery. Now you can rate your favorite (or least favorite) images and when enough ratings are compiled I will be able to add a “Top Rated” page to track the most popular images in the gallery. I will also be looking at the least popular images as examples of what not to do in the future.

  As with the free gallery, you get one vote per image (so be certain before you hit the submit button). Unlike the free gallery, however, you don’t need to load the full size image in order to vote (each thumbnail has a rating button). If you’ve never viewed the full-size image, however, I would appreciate it if you check it out before voting. Sometimes the thumbnail doesn’t do justice to the full-size image.

  Please drop me a line if you have any questions. Thanks for helping out!

07/13/06

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of “Cosmic Dawn”.

07/10/06

• Added “Cosmic Dawn” to the gallery this morning. Jessie and I were watching “2001” on HDNET Movies a few nights ago and I was inspired to create a new planetscape. Multi-monitor versions will be available shortly.

Posted on July 6, 2006

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of “Undiscovered (Night)”.

Posted on July 3, 2006

• I spent most of last week catching up on my multi-monitor renders. I’ve posted dual and triple screen versions of “Flora”, “Enclosure (2006)”, and “Undiscovered”. “Episteme” will have to wait until a new version of Apophysis allows me to render at 4800 x 1200 (I get out of memory errors with the current version). “Verdure” will have to wait until my new workstation arrives (see 6/27 post). A tri-screen render on my current machine would probably take 2 weeks to complete.

  For you single monitor users I’ve added a night version of “Undiscovered”. I know some of you mentioned that the day version was a little bright, so hopefully this one will work better for you.

  Happy 4th to all of my American members!