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techterriertoday at 6:24 AM8 repliesview on HN

Good idea, I did just such a thing myself, deleting all my socials and only posting my photos to my own website: https://dombarker.co.uk/

Was fun to make 'just a website' for a change too.


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MrDOStoday at 4:11 PM

Great photos. I love your Norfolk robins. I also love that you've taken the time to set up browsing by species!

If you're at all interested in feedback:

- When scrolling through a gallery grid, the multiple fixed-position headers eat up an awful lot of screen real estate. On my MacBook Air (effectively 1280x800), I can only see one full row of photos at a time. Feels very cramped.

- Navigating to a photo from a gallery and then hitting my browser's “Back” button takes me back to the “Report” tab on the galley, not the photo grid. Makes gallery browsing pretty difficult.

- Maybe both of these problems could be ameliorated by making gallery photos open in the lightbox, rather than shunting you directly to their pages. Although...

- Items in a gallery's slideshow/lightbox display don't have a link to their photo pages. Maybe the name of the photo could link to its page?

WickyNilliamstoday at 9:06 AM

Beautiful photos! And the site is very nice looking too .

Can I ask what you do wrt the photo storage for your site? I'm looking to get back into photography and don't use Instagram etc, so want somewhere to post. Wondering how I might set up my own site for this purpose. Thanks

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Klonoartoday at 6:50 AM

I run something similar, ish: https://photos.rymc.io/

I still have an account or two elsewhere, but all photos get posted here then linked there with decent open graph previews.

frogulistoday at 7:23 AM

Gorgeous photos. One point of feedback: I went to your shop to view prints, and while it was nice to see them "in situ", I couldn't see the actual images because of how they small they were in frame!

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72deluxetoday at 8:58 AM

I have done the same, but your website is really nice! And your photos are lovely. I like how you've indicated which cameras and gear you use for certain trips.

That 600mm Sony lens must be fun to carry around. I used to have a Tamron 150-600mm lens for my Nikon, but my wife said it looked ridiculous, so I got rid of it. So now I'm mostly on M43 for portability.

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timedudetoday at 3:02 PM

Excellent photography

tristanMatthiastoday at 6:27 AM

Great photos! Thanks for sharing!

zuzuleinentoday at 6:53 AM

Your photos are amazing!