Finally, after testing in the real world for several months, BEgallery is ready for download.

BEgallery is a gallery extension (duh) for Blogengine.net 1.4 and up. It integrates the excellent Highslide JS thumbnail viewer, by Torstein Hønsi, seamless in Blogengine.net.

For all the info and download of the extension open the BEgallery extension for BlogEngine.net page.

To see what the extension can do, check this example.

Finally started the mammoth task of indexing my aviation photo’s. Picked up the hobby again in 2002 when I, from then on, concentrated on civil airliners photography. Now, 7 years down the line and some 10.000 photo’s further I can’t remember which, where and when.

There are several options to index your collection, for instance use the metadata in Lightroom. Because I want to query the data in all kinds of ways I decided to build my own application. It’s a custom made and especially tailor made application, but maybe of use to other enthusiasts.

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"Liberté"

"Office Space"

"Brooklyn Bridge"

"Off the wall"

"York Street"

"Midtown"

"DKNY"

"The Roman"

"Ready, Go"

"Protection"

"AVL"

"Stairs"

"Prease"

"Middle Ages?"

"Tracks to nowhere"

"The Koons Dog"

"Chaos"

Last year I visited New York and compiled a small exposition on this wonderful city. A great place for all you photographers!

Skylark Creative is divided in several brands, one of them being photography. Skylark Photography specializes in Aircraft, wildlife and nature photography. To do this I travel the World and some samples of these trips and my work are now presented in the new Skylark Photography website.

Check it out via http://www.skylark-creative.com/photography.

You’ll need Flash enabled to view this site.

Frustrated by the gallery solutions available for BlogEngine.net I decided to develop one of my own. Most of the project available are crap, especially on the presentation side and lots of other project died on the way.

I started programming on Saturday and I’m pleased to say the 1.0 version is almost ready for testing. (finished the whole project in less than two days, that’s a new record for me )

When the project is tested and production ready I will publish the source so you can use it in your own blog (non commercial only). The extension shows thumbnails in the post, which can be clicked to view a larger version. A popup (with the use of the latest AJAX technology) is shown. The project’s main features are:

And now .. see it at work!

A HDR enhanced photo of Venice, Italy

Royal Netherlands Air Force demo F-16 seen at the 2009 Air Force days @ Volkel AB, Netherlands