The gold medal winning, world record breaking run of Usain Bolt in the 200 meters men at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, China (19.30 seconds) further strengthened by the Olympic record breaking run of Melanie Walker in the 400 meters hurdles final (54.62), sparked off wild celebrations starting in Usain’s hometown of Sherwood Content, near Falmouth in Trelawny. There was a massive motorcade and partying throughout the day and night.
Productivity was at its lowest in history as almost everyone took to the streets in wild celebrations that end with a street dance in Sherwood. i was too tired to make it to Sherwood in the night but here are some photos taken during the day,
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Some of Jamaica’s leading female reggae dancehall artistes were on show at Dancehall Divas in Concert at Club Nazz in Falmouth, Jamaica. The lin-up included Diva, Miss Thing, Sasha, Spice, D’Angel and the Queen of Dancehall herself, the prolific hit machine Marion Hall, aka Lady Saw. Noticeably absent were Patra, Lady G and current heavyweight Macka Diamond. It was a girl’s show promoted by female for females. As such, the predominantly female audience had a ball listening to the mainly vulgar, sexual lyrics, riddled with expletives. much to the delight of the crowd. They were no different from the men in terms of their vulgarity, often times clutching their genitalia while performing. All artistes put in great performances but as is the norm, Lady Saw was the creme de la creme. D’Angel (and Sasha to a lesser extent) must be commended for keeping it clean. 
Here is a full photo set of the event:
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Falmouth has one of the largest collection of buildings from the Georgian era in the Caribbean. Today I went for a walk in the north of the town to take photos of some of them. They have all been placed in a Falmouth Buildings page, which is a sub-page of the Falmouth page. I will post a few here.
House on Trelawny Street now used as an office.
Continue reading ‘The Buildings of Falmouth’
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WordPress 2.5 and 2.6 Photo Gallery feature provides a basic way to display photos. Cleaner WordPress Gallery Plugin enhances this feature by replacing the default photo gallery feature supplied with WordPress with a valid XHTML solution that
You may see it in action on my site and download from the homepage at Cleaner WordPress Gallery Plugin: Valid XHTML with integrated Lightbox support
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I wanted to test the WordPress Monotone theme that alllows WordPress to be used as a true photoblog (one photo per page) and changes color to match the shade of each photo. I also wanted to test having a site on wordpress.com as opposed to hosting on my own domain as I’ve always done. I decided to pursue one of my longtime goals, which is to have a photoblog solely for my black & white photos. The result is Blog In Gray at http://grayscalephoto.wordpress.com.
All i do is add a blog at wordpress.com and use wordpress photo gallery feature to add one medium photo (centered) per page. The result is a neat little photoblog that changes to match the shade of each photo.
The bads:
- the caption script ” [/caption] “came up in all pages.
- the description text for each photo did not show up at all.
The goods:
- related posts automatically generated.
- wordpress does everything..all I do is to add an image and include categories, tags, etc.
- wordpress automatically includes google sitemap for SEO (search engine optimization).
- the comments box being always open makes it easier to get comments.
- archives page makes it possible to show archives by categories.
I have learnt that it is best to use large images in monotone as opposed to the medium sizes I have used so far.
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Here are the latest additions to my Gallery. Photos were posted from Add Media —-NextGen instead of using WordPress 2.5 photo Gallery: Add Media—-Gallery. WordPress 2.5 Photo Gallery does a better job with spacing of the thumbnails and with nextgen, photos have to be added one by one.
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While trying to solve my nextgen problem (re: the previous post), I saw several options for embedding photo galleries in WordPress and was pleasantly surprised with the photo gallery feature that comes with WordPress 2.5. It can be quite handy to post multiple photos to a blog without taking up as much space as I now use. Large thumbnails can be used for display and clicking will reveal the larger size. I am putting this feature to the test with some images I uploaded to the gallery.
Looks quite attractive! Using a gallery for posts is definitely the way to go. At least it will ensure that the page loads in a shorter time. The major ommisson: no “Previous” or “Next” button.
Follow Up :
Got this line of coding above the photo when I clicked on the thumbnail and opened up the medium size:
“s // This lets us style narrow icons speciall”
In addition, after clicking on the medium size and getting the large, clicking on the large to go back to medium sometimes brought up a small white box in the top left of the browser. It maybe theme related but a definite no-no for me.
Follow Up 2:
I tried inserting images from nextgen gallery into the post and got the same white box error above. After troubleshooting, I found out Snap Shot was causing a conflict which was resolved by removing Snap Shot. The script output however, still remains.
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I have been adding new photos to My NextGen in almost all galleries. All the images have been edited as opposed to my other gallery that had mostly unedited photos, some of them really crappy, including some when I just started taking photos. I intend to eventually edit the better ones from the old gallery and include them in NextGen.
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This egret was kind enough to pose for a quick photo shoot. I saw him when I went to pick up my son at school. Larger sizes can seen by clicking on the images.
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