For those that are interested, I have now completed (with links on the photojournal page) photojournal posts from February.

Regular readers may have noticed that the last couple of weeks I’ve done my Daily Observations posts as one combined post each week. I think I will stick with that format for now, as it’s a fairly slow time of year for me outdoors-wise anyway, and on top of that, I’ve got several other things I’m trying to catch and/or keep up with. One of the things I am working on catching up on is the 11 month backlog of photos I accumulated this year plus all the older photos that I want to incorporate into species pages on this site. I think there will be quite a few experiences the photos will remind me of which I did not mention (or mentioned only briefly), so I am planning to write posts for those as they come up during this catch up time.

My wrists/forearms started hurting several weeks ago like I was have carpal tunnel trouble, so I’ve tried not to type so much to give them the best chance at recover. As of yesterday I modified my primary typing arrangement, and it seems to be much better so far, so hopefully I’ll be getting back to regular updates soon.

In the meantime I have been making very brief notes about what I see. I’m not sure whether I will put those in one post, or backdate several posts. I have also been working on processing and uploading photos from 2007 to the new style of photojournal. I’ve currently got pictures uploaded through the middle of May, but the photojournal has only been updated with January photos. I did create a photojournal page with links to the individual posts. I’ll try to put up a notice whenever I get a month or two worth of photos added into the photojournal page.

Those who have seen my other (older) site, are probably familiar with the photojournal I kept there (starting in Summer 1999; it’s hard to believe it’s been over 8 years). Earlier this year I got a software upgrade to Adobe Lightroom and found it much better for working with my photos. Unfortunately, it did not fit in very well with my old workflow, and I never got around to trying to patch things up so that I could efficiently update the photojournal there. As a result, I have not updated the photojournal with any pictures from 2007. Recently I started using a gallery plugin for Wordpress that seems to work pretty well for me so far (I’m hopefully that it will scale well with lots of photos). So, I have decided to continue my photojournal on this site in the weblog. Posts in the category ‘photojournal’ will reflect that. As I have photos from all of this year, I will have many posts to do to catch up. I’m going to back date the posts so the post date is the same as the day the pictures were taken. Actually, even after I get caught up, it’s likely photojournal posts will be frequently show up long after their posted date, as it usually takes me some time to thin the images down. I’ll periodically make a post with links to recently created photojournal pages.