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The death and rebirth of Roophilia
Sep. 29th, 2013 06:34 pmAs foreshadowed in my earlier Roophilia post, I am basically giving the old 1.0 website a rest. Breeding photos (if I take any again) may still go there, but otherwise new content will go to Roophilia 2.0. The old site was important in its day, but that day has passed. Putting it up on Flickr in fact gives it a new lease on life, because I will be able to throw stuff up much more quickly and easily in the future. At least that's the idea, so long as I don't get bogged down with descriptions and shuffling sets.
Roophilia Update: Is it the end?
Jul. 19th, 2013 05:30 pm- Two new photos of Tasmanian Devils feeding, including a great shot of their dentition.
- Tasmanian Devils fighting (probably over the aforementioned food).
- Close up of Eastern grey kangaroo's nose and tongue.
Wow! Over two years since my last update. No wonder it took me a while to remember how to update it all and to repair the shell scripts that help to automate the process. But is it worth it? Updating Roophilia seems so clunky in the age of web 2.0, and its design does not fit the higher resolution photos I want to upload nowadays. Also, Roophilia does not get anything like the attention it did in the old days. I suppose I could make a Roophilia page on FaceBook and pimp for "likes" for it and either upload photos there (thus leaving behind my friends on LJ) or maybe devote a page on Flickr to it and notify my followers of updates in the usual manner (it would take me a while to fill 1TB). Either way, I would be effectively relinquishing possession of my photos (which is why I've been reluctant up till now) and any photos of a reproductive nature (or even too gory, as one photo arguably could be) would still have to go to the old site (which would stay up indefinitely as long as Bang keeps furry.org.au going. Thoughts, anyone?
Puttings things into sharp focus
Nov. 16th, 2008 05:58 pmBefore my birthday, my old camera (a FujiFilm Pinepix S3000) was starting to die, so my friends very kindly gave me money towards buying a new camera. I found that digital SLRs had gone down in price significantly, and with the money I got for my birthday it was now a viable option for me. As much as I love the convenience of digital, I missed my old SLR film-based camera, especially for the depth of focus it could give me. I bought a Pentax K100D Super, which came with two lenses, an 18-35mm and a 75-300mm. Another feature this camera gives me is the ability to do rapid fire photos, which will come in very handy when I'm shooting kangaroos for Roophilia. I've put up a couple of sample photos to show you what I mean about depth of focus.
Thank you so much to everyone who chipped in to make this possible!
Thank you so much to everyone who chipped in to make this possible!
Roophilia update
May. 18th, 2008 08:35 amAs a special treat for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rose_quoll:
(Apologies to all the quolls out there for the choice of soundtrack. No slight was intended.)
rose_quoll:- A video of a northern quoll. (I recommend that you click the "watch in high quality" link to see it in full quollity.)
(Apologies to all the quolls out there for the choice of soundtrack. No slight was intended.)
Roophilia update
May. 5th, 2008 11:41 am- A female eastern grey on her back.
- A male eastern grey's paw pad.
In other news, my Piclens shell script now handles additions to Roophilia automatically.
Roophilia update
Apr. 5th, 2008 03:31 pm- A bronze kangaroo sculpture in Brisbane's botanical gardens.
I found this one quite by chance when I was showing
higgs_raccoon around Brisbane.Roophilia revised
Mar. 29th, 2008 09:54 am- Better photos of Andrew's kangaroo in her natural habitat under Art.
In other news, I've been playing with PicLens and becoming very enthused with this new way of looking at photos online. So much so, I'm thinking about setting up an RSS feed of Roophilia's photos so Roophilia can join in the fun. I'll need to brush up on my shell scripting again first, though.
Roophilia update
Mar. 16th, 2008 10:08 am- A sneak peak at a new scrap metal sculpture by Andrew Whitehead under Art. She will be premiered at the Spirit of the Land Festival at Lockhart in October 2008.
Andrew emailed me out of the blue with a sneak peak at his latest sculpture, wanting me to put it up on Roophilia. I was so flattered he's my first update for 2008. In fact, my first update for over 7 months. It's not that I don't care about the website or kangaroos anymore; I don't feel I have anything to add photographically to the subject. If some new kangaroo public artwork showed up around Brisbane I'd certainly glom onto it for Roophilia.
Roophilia update
Aug. 5th, 2007 08:56 amThe first new video in... *counts on his claws and then gives up* a long long time!
- A new movie under Movies: An eastern grey kangaroo licks her pouch and cleans her joey.
Roophilia update
May. 13th, 2007 08:47 am- An extra photo of an Eastern grey kangaroo penis under Breeding and some general rearranging of that page. (The male and female genitalia pages are now at the top.)
Also, as a bonus, there's a silly photo for you on my Flickr account.
Roophilia update
Mar. 24th, 2007 12:59 pm- An Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesuerii).
- A red kangaroo enjoying the shade.
- A female Red Kangaroo's cloaca under Breeding (the female anatomy section, half way down the page).
(All these photos are from my and
ristin's trip to Australia Zoo a few days ago.)Roophilia update
Mar. 17th, 2007 06:30 pm- New photos of an Eastern Grey joey suckling.
These are my best photos yet of a macropod suckling, including a good shot of the teat.
Roophilia Update
Sep. 6th, 2006 09:07 pm- An improved photo of the syndactylus claw and a close up of the primary claw of an eastern grey under Anatomy.
Still to come: If you're good, I might have some extra breeding photos soon.
Roophilia Update
Jun. 25th, 2006 11:02 am- A wallaby which is part of a mural promoting conservation of our waterways. It was made possible by the Brisbane City Council Community grant scheme and the Burnett Swamp Creek 'FREECS', among others. The artists are listed as "Mikey Newman, Sonny Baker, Jason Wooward, and many local artists."
Roophilia Revised
Jun. 13th, 2006 08:03 pmI have put up a somewhat improved version of the video of the Whiptail wallabies mating and I expect to revise most of the movies eventually. I will delete the older version when I'm happy that everything's working properly. (This is an excellent example of why, if anyone wanted to link to any of my movies, they would be much better off linking directly to Roophilia where I will keep the links up to date.)
