August 2008
Favourite general photography sites
August 10, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
Yet another list (oh do I like lists). This one shows some of the general photography sites I really like. No blogs of photographer-specific sites here. These include online magazine, photo editing, tutorial, photo-sharing and reference sites:
Facebook Page for Squashy Frog Photography
August 10, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
I’ve generated another new page for Squashy Frog Photography, it’s a general Facebook Page. You can view it by clicking on the image below:
Everyone is more than welcome to join as a fan.
Check the article titled, “Facebook Blogs Network page for Squashy Frog Photography” for details of the other FB page.
Facebook Blogs Network page for Squashy Frog Photography
August 10, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
I’ve made 2 new pages for Squashy Frog Photography on Facebook. The first one is for Blogs Network and can be found by clicking on the image below:
Free feel to join the network!
Check the article titled, “Facebook Blogs Network page for Squashy Frog Photography” for details of the other FB page.
NetVibes page for Squashy Frog Photography
August 10, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
Continuing my additions to my social media pages, I’ve created a new NetVibes page for Squashy Frog Photography. Please click on the image below to find it:
There is lots of things here, the first page is feeds from my various social media pages, Twitter, FriendFeed (profile and room) and Flickr. Then there are several tabs including:
- Photography Articles: headlines from the best photography-related blogs on the net
- Photos: A collection of my favourites photos and most interesting from Flickr
- Photography Blogs: list of the best photography blogs around
- Photography Sites: another list, this time of the best general photography sites you’ll find
- General News: a few feeds from my favourite news pages
- Internet: the best feeds from a few Internet blogs
- Entertainment: feeds from various entertainment sites
- Sport: sports-related feeds
- Misc.: and various feeds from sites that don’t fit into any of the above
- Kol Tregaskes: these are feeds from my personal social media/news services
They’ll be more added all the time so please anyone is welcome to use this page.
My favourite photography blogs
August 3, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
Last of the lists this weekend and here’s a collection of my favourite blog-type photography sites. This covers photographers, tutorial sites and lots more:
FriendFeed Room for Squashy Frog Photography
August 3, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
This is for all you people out there that are into your social news/media/bookmarking stuff (like me 
). I’ve created a new room on FriendFeed for Squashy Frog Photography and you’ll be able to find it here:
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/squashyfrogphotography
Or click on the image below:
So what does it include, well lots of things. Here’s a list of the main ones: -
- New blog articles from Squashy Frog Photography
- Photos from my Flickr stream
- Photos of my favourites from Flickr
- Tweets from Twitter
- Favourite images added to the photo bookmarking site, vi.sualize.us
- Photography-related articles dugg on Digg
- My deviantART favourites
So please join the new room if it looks like something that is up your street. There might be some duplication from one service to the other but it’s not too bad and I hope to figure out a way to avoid it in the future.
You can also find my individual FriendFeed page here:
http://friendfeed.com/koltregaskes
I hope to see you on there.
In additional I’ve created specific Squashy Frog Photography social media users. For more information please read my article entitled ‘Squashy Frog Photography gets social‘.
Squashy Frog Photography gets social
August 3, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
I’m sure it’s not gone unnoticed that social media, news and bookmarking is a big ol’ thing nowadays. And me being someone not wanting to miss out on anything new on the net I’ve naturally joined in with all the fun. I’ve been slowly building profiles on tonnes of services across the web – some used more than others. If this interests you then for a complete list of my social media profiles have a read of my page titled, “My Social Media Sites“.
In addition to my individual services I’ve recently started creating profiles for Squashy Frog Photography specifically. We’ll see how useful or important they come over time but for now I’ve produced a quick rundown of the services I’m using at the moment:
You might have read already that I’ve created FriendFeed Room. If not then head over to the article “FriendFeed Room for Squashy Frog Photography“. As for an individual profile, I have created one at:
http://friendfeed.com/squashyfrog
It currently doesn’t show a whole lot but I’m add more as I go and new articles will increase over time. For the moment, though, I’m concentrating on the SF room. The profile page is basically a copy of the room anyway, so it’s just down to how you like to take your FriendFeed social news.
As with FriendFeed I used Digg A WHOLE LOT at the moment. So much so I collect photography-related diggs I’ve dugg on my individual profile and, every few days, log into my SF profile and digg them again. My profile is here:
http://digg.com/users/squashyfrog
Why a separate profile? Well I’ve been trying to get my diggs on my blog and RSS feed for a while and not really come up with a decent way of doing it. So for a little bit of effort on my part I know digg photography articles via my SF profile and set up FeedBurner to feed the diggs into my SF feed. Having digg set-up for SF and for photography-related articles only means I can add it for places such as FriendFeed, so it’s been very useful.
Twitter is definitely a very popular service but I feel that it’s lagging behind sites like Plurk in several departments. What is going for Twitter, though, it simple that it is so popular. Lots of people use it and there are tonnes of mashups and tools for it. So find my SF profile at:
http://twitter.com/squashyfrog
I have to say that I have a ’small’ issue with this profile. I set up the feeds via Twitterfeed before Twitterfeed slightly changed their login page. Now I cannot log back into the same user that I used to create these feeds so cannot update or amend them ! I’m sure it will be a problem in the future but for the moment the feed includes blog articles from here and I’ve added new feeds such as my favs on vi.sualize.us.
Again StumbleUpon is a good serivce (though I prefer Digg and FriendFeed) and again I’m not really using this profile but please add me as a friend at:
http://squashyfrog.stumbleupon.com/
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And of course I have a SF specific Flickr account. It’s been used to share my porfolio photos and the odd screenshot or two. So nothing much new here but please add me if you like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/squashyfrog
I feel these are enough (well more than enough) for Squashy Frog Photography. As stated one or two are not really used fully yet but if I add any more and find a proper use for the services mentioned I’ll be sure to post the news here.
I hope to see you at a social media site near you. 
My favourite Flickr photographers
August 2, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
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Here is my list of favourite photographers on the photo sharing site, Flickr. Some of these I might have listed on previously entries but these will be their Flickr pages.
And don’t forgot my Flickr photo at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes
WordPress upgraded to version 2.6, theme upgrade next
August 2, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
Hi guys, long time no speak. Yep it’s been pretty dead for new articles here but if you follow the feed (which I highly recommend) then you’ve been kept busy pretty much most days. Anyway, I upgraded to WordPress 2.6 a few weeks ago and again it went swimmingly as you can see.
Next up is an upgrade to a new Revolution theme. This will be a lot trickier and will have to wait. In entails a load of manually copying and pasting all my customisisations of the default templates into the new templates. To be honest I’m quite happy with the theme as is and don’t see it being a huge rush to upgrade to Revolution 3 theme. But I’ll keep you up to date as always.
List of my favourite photographers updated
August 2, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
As an update to a short list I did ages ago, I’ve compiled a much longer list of my favourite photographers online. I’ve picked the majority of them on the quality of their photography but a few have been picked mainly on their excellent web site design.
I’ve added in brackets the genre of photography for some. So have a browse and let me know your thoughts and whether I’ve missed any?
