| March 25, 2005: I have had a Yosemite site on Earthlink since 1998, and I decided that it might be a good idea to mirror it here, just in case something happened to the EarthLink version. "JR's Yosemite" is the site that initially spawned Bearclover.net. It's gone though a whole lot of revisions, but at its core it's still the little site I created just a few months after I got my first computer, so I have sentimental feelings about it. |
May 21, 2005: Some friends of mine have gotten involved in an online art gallery, IGI Art (International Art Inc.). They got me to sign up for a free membership and asked me to write an honest review of my impression of the artwork.
UPDATE: I took this review down, because my friends told me that IGI was getting pissy about anyone else creating web pages about the company. I now consider this company suspect. Phooey on them. |
| February 2, 2005: For the sad, pathetic Mac geek—I bought the recently introduced Mac Mini G4 Macintosh computer, and I do a "grand unveiling" (apparently a tradition among us Mac geeks). I included my cats in these pictures, just to add a little spice! |
February 12, 2005: Extending the Mac Mini Page, I did some benchmarks (speed comparisons) between the Mac Mini and my other computers. I also give opinions and recommendations for buying a Mac Mini. |
| June
2, 2003: Just made a new California
Poppies page, to showcase my friend Ray Maynard's fabulous poppy
and wildflower photos. |
June
13, 2004: Whoa! Has it really been so long since I worked
on this site? Well, I finally did. The Photoshop
Fun pages desperately needed updating. |
| March
10, 2003: New! Thanks to my insanely great Epson scanner,
I am not able to make great graphics to be put on t-shirts. Check
out my new and improved Cafe
Press t-shirt store. There are Yosemite, California photography
and even art t-shirts! |
May
5, 2003: Updated my Epson Perfection 3200 page, adding
a new page. I offer additional information about the scanner,
how to set it up to scan transparencies, and discuss some of the
features of its bundled scanning software. |
| November
19, 2002: New! Beta Testing—Bearclover.net's
Cafe Press Store. T-Shirts and post cards for sale with original
Yosemite Photographs. |
March
8, 2003: Got yet another new scanner, the Epson Perfection
3200 (which was just released in the USA). I
made a page which compares the previous model of this scanner
(the Epson Perfection 2450) to the 3200. Interesting results, and
some nice Yellowstone & Catalina photos as well! (Warning:
the sample images are large—expect a download time of about
a minute or two if you are on dial-up!) |
| May
12, 2002: Created a Pottery
Book Recommendations page, and did various updates to the entire
Photoshop section. (A new version
of Photoshop has just been released!) |
February
13, 2002: After a long hiatus (working on other sites) I create
a geeky page showing many web
buttons. These graphic buttons are for webmasters to display
on their pages. If you are a web design geek, check it out! |
| December
25, 2001: After all my recent experiences and activity dealing
with web hosts, web domains, and web authoring, I decided I needed
to write an article about
it. Yeah, I know. A pretty pathetic thing to ramble about
on Christmas Day. But what can I say? My Christmas is already
shot, since I have to go to work (a double shift, even). Bah Humbug. |
December
23, 2001: I am in the process of putting a search
page on this site, with the help of Atomz.com.
Let me know how it works! |
| December
16, 2001: My old web hosting plan, while being excellent,
was getting a bit too cramped for all these photos I am putting
on this site. So, I am switching web hosts. It has been an exciting
upgrade for Bearclover.net, and will allow me to upload as many
photos as possible, completely unfettered by disk space concerns!
If you are
reading this update, the site has already been transferred to
its new host.
|
December
14, 2001: Big news! (For me, at least). An ad agency working
for Toyota is buying the rights to publish one of my Yosemite
photos (for a year) for a Spanish-language print ad! This ad will
appear in magazines for the next year, but I still retain rights
to the photo (of course). The photo in question is my "El
Capitan and the Merced River" picture, as seen on my main
Yosemite Page. I'll show the
tear sheets (printed samples) of the ad, when I get them.
The ad agency
stumbled upon the photo while surfing (I assume) and decided they
wanted to use it for their ad. This good fortune came completely
out of the blue, and has been a wonderful blessing and surprise!
Inspired
by this sale, I have decided I'd offer my photos as stock photography.
I've gotten queries and requests regarding this for a while now.
I guess I had better take the hint - so, I officially announce
that Bearclover.net is in the stock photography
biz! |
| December
10, 2001: I decided I needed to create another page with more
information about
getting started in pottery. This page gives specific information
about working with pottery at home, and getting supplies (and
getting work fired) at a local ceramics "hobby" shop.
It's a l-o-n-g
page, so that it can be printed out (if you so desire). Lots of
helpful information, including a diagram that explains ceramic
firing temperatures! |
December
8, 2001: I got a new scanner! This is a Big Deal for me. Most
of the photos on this site are from recent photos that I get put
on CD-ROM. Pre-scanned and quite good in quality from the get-go.
And I have a lot of these CDs - many that I still need
to make web-ready. But the sad thing is, I have even more
slides, prints and negatives (from before the photo CD era). All
begging to be put on this site. And I finally got a scanner that
is up to the job!
So - why
am I rambling about this? I put up a "New
Scans" page - a sneak peek of some of the images that
will be presented in my photos pages in the weeks to come. The
pictures will most likely change from time to time, as I scan
new images. At least a 40 second download wait on slower connections. |
| December
6, 2001: Finally got around to editing some more pictures
from my vast photo collection. I have two new California Photos
pages - pictures taken of Cambria,
and Carmel, up California
coastal Hwy. One.
Also, I am
starting my Disney's California
Adventure pages - just two pages so far, more to come as photos
are edited. California Adventure is a new theme park, next door
to Disneyland. |
November
24, 2001: Made a Color
Correction tutorial for my Photoshop
Fun! section. I show how I fixed up a rather wretched picture
taken at Disney's California Adventure. Screenshots are shown, as
I go step-by-step through the digital correction process. This page
is full of illustrations, so it's a slightly longer download - between
30-45 seconds on a slower connection. |
| November
18, 2001: A visitor to this site shared a wonderful poem about
redwoods with me. The poet, Chantal Bruce, and her mother, Roberta,
graciously allowed me to put the poem on this site. So, I made
a little web page and special graphic
to show it off.
Beware, the
graphic is large (134 Kb) so it will take between 20-40 seconds
to download on a slower connection. |
November
12, 2001: I decided to try Dreamweaver's "Photo Album"
function. (Dreamweaver
is the program I use to create this site.) I make two little "Yosemite
Photo Albums", (Album
I and Album II)
with photos from Glacier Point, Mariposa Grove, Merced River,
and Tuolumne Meadows.
The larger
photos in the photo albums have rather big file sizes (to keep
the photo quality as high as possible). So, if you have a slower
Internet connection, prepare to wait a bit longer to download! |
| November
5, 2001: Big news! (For me, anyway...) I got a new iMac (500
MHz G3, 768 megs of RAM, not that you asked). This means I can
update and edit this site much quicker. (No quitting Dreamweaver,
opening Photoshop, then quitting Photoshop, opening Dreamweaver...)
The old iMac, wonderful as it was, just wasn't cutting it anymore.
So, inspired
by the lightening speed of this fabulous new machine, I have added
three new Yosemite Photos pages. Page
4, page 5, page
6. Includes several Glacier Point photos, some good Tenaya
Lake pictures, among a variety of other Yosemite pics. |
September
16-19, 2001: Started an "America
the Beautiful" section. I had planned to showcase the
photos I have taken in other parts of the USA anyway. It seemed
like the recent events of September 11th gave me the impetus to
start working on it sooner. Page
One of this section has photos from Hawaii, and Yellowstone.
I have two pages of "Patriotic
Desktop Wallpaper". These are scenic images with a patriotic
theme. Includes Yosemite Wallpaper. |
| Busy
day! September 4, 2001: Added a new California
Photos Page, with photos from Highway One, and Mendocino.
Lots of seashore pictures.
Created a
California Poppy Photos Page,
with photos taken at Gorman, California.
Added two
new Black and White
Yosemite photos pages. (Page
2 and Page 3,
the new B&W photos pages.) |
August
23, 2001: Added a new
pottery page, with more photos of my ceramics. Also did some
minor updates (and changed a photo) on my main
pottery page. |
| August
12-13, 2001: Started a Sequoia
Photos section. Two pages so far.
Made the
Salvation Mountain pages,
which show this incredible example of folk art in the California
desert. Two pages.
Added a Hwy
101 Travel Diary page. Notes from my 1998 road trip. |
August
11, 2001: Added two new pages to the Yosemite
2001 photos section. |
