How to show EXIF data in a wordpress photoblog

The EXIF data of a photography is for me one of the most interesting parts which can tell you a lot about how a picture was taken.
In this short tutorial I will show you how to automatically display the most common and important EXIF tags below an image on your wordpress attachment page.

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Homepage v7

These summer holidays I finally came around to updating my homepage again, after almost exactly 2 years. As usual, I like to start completely fresh so I don’t have to take out all the old trash that accumulated over the years.

I will probably lose a few visitors here and there as I threw out many old posts, the uploader and my smilies, but noone visited them anyway. As soon as I started using dropbox, the uploader was rendered obsolete anyway, as its main purpose was to send files from school to home and vice versa.

I was looking for a point of my homepage as many people have asked me why I would have one… Back in the day (the last post on my old homepage was from september 2010), it used to be a teen’s blog – something to show off, mainly to prove to myself what I can do, a playing field. Also, it was a personal project I really enjoyed creating. I just have never been really creative with the content. Written content, anyway.
After buying my camera, I realised that my homepage would be a perfect spot to show off and save my pictures. This way, I also can create a more professional portfolio which I’ll need more and more as I’ll be progressing in my career

TL;DR: Homepage update

During the update, I threw out the vast majority of uninteresting (and non-read) articles. All the downloads (wallpaper, uploader, smilies) were dropped because of the same reason: noone cared about them. So if you came to this page looking for something and got an 404, this is probably the reason.

3 tools to get your color palette right

Not everyone uses them, most of these people should – I’m talking about color palettes. These nifty little things help designers around the globe to get the right colours easily. Although most designers already know basic harmonies, these tools help you experiment more easily. I’d like to present three of my favourite tools, sorted by my personal thoughts on their usability and overall UI feeling. Read More»

10 000 Icons for free!

As I have been archiving and collecting icons and icon packages from various sources for various projects and designs, by now I have something around 650 MB of icons tucked away in the (relative) safety of my dropbox.
I’m not (always) egoistic, so I thought I might share some of these icons with you – I have prepared more than 10 000 icons for you.
If you think something is missing here, just post it in the comments below.

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