If you have been checking out my site over the last few months you may have noted a slight theme change. The new theme is about 95% done, with minor tweaks planned as bugs are ironed out. The site has been tested in firefox 3.6.2, google chrome, safari, and internet explorer 6/7/8. Full support will be provided for these browsers with the exception of IE 6 and 7. IE 6 cannot render transparent png’s correctly, and its method of calculating distances is flawed, so the layout will not appear correct. This is a known issue and will not be resolved so please upgrade to a more modern browser. Besides, IE 6 has many security vulnerabilities that could leave your system compromised. IE 7 calculates some pixel related stuff incorrectly, so there may be 1px gaps in some images. This is a known issue, though I don’t know if I will have a fix for it. Everything else should look fine.

On to the new features. There is now a contact form if you with to contact me via email. I will respond within a day in most cases, so send your questions and/or comments there. If you are following me on twitter, my posting something should automatically update twitter now. In fact, this post is a test run for that new system. You can also receive email updates when I post if you use the sign-up form with feedburner over on the right side. A new feature is the knowledge base located in the top right header next to the section[31] link. The knowledge base will be populated with common questions I receive from friends/family/whoever, in order to build a repository of questions that can be quickly answered.

Since I’ve been doing projects with the Nosco Project, I’ve had the opportunity to plan new outings to go on and shoot. The upcoming theme is “Garden” and so I decided it would be prudent to begin searching San Diego for appropriate garden. Google alerted to me to the existence of the San Diego Botanic Garden, located a few miles North in Encinitas. I knew this would be an exciting opportunity to try out my new lens, the 60mm Canon USM macro lens. A very fine piece of work, this lens would be getting its trial run in the gardens. The first photograph is the first thing the 60mm ever saw. Enjoy! Be sure to go to the Nosco Project to see my photograph for the Garden theme!